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[Raphaël Valyi <rvalyi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Olivier and the others,

Thank you for the update. I think all your proposal sound fair. If at some
point one can propose a platform, why not.
On the contrary, I think it's fair to simply redirect on the existing
website of the technology of their choice when the local community already
has a good website, just as you proposed. Let's take
http://www.openerpbrasil.org: we had a spontaneous very nice and fair
contribution from a small Northern Brazil company called DMD2
http://www.dmd2.com.br/ so they made the great design of
http://www.openerpbrasil.org/ and just put their logo discretely in the
footer (there aren't even OpenERP integrators yet, it's only a nice synergy
with them so they can showcase their design skills) while we took care of
the Radiant CMS stuff at Akretion (and again not doing anything more than
discretely putting the logo in the footer; we will list here all official
and non official Brazilian integrators, we are the only official one so
far). BTW, we also fought to have the non localization related documentation
to be a translation of the official documentation (using Shpinx and
Launchpad then as you explained recently) rather than have noobs documenting
partially and wrongly and in a brittle manner as they want, that would
rather have passed an distorted vision of what OpenERP really is.

Now imagine you force to switch the nice design and content of
http://www.openerpbrasil.org for a quick and bad generic design that won't
appeal to the average Brazilian user, I think this would be disrespectful to
the local actors who took the initiative and invested work one year before
already. Now if some local community doesn't have some nice neutral entry
point already, yes it might be useful to give them something be default, I
like that.
All right, so basically I'm okay with those proposals, I'll send the
redirection info soon (Heroku apps are a bit special to redirect).


Raphaël Valyi
Founder and ERP Consultant
+55 21 3010 9965
http://www.akretion.com

<http://www.akretion.com.br/>



On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Olivier Dony <odo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> There are two important topics here:
> 1.- being able to identify the official OpenERP communities
> 2.- helping new local communities in the setup of their community portal
>
>
> 1.- Identifying the local OpenERP communities
>
> As you probably already heard, we plan to launch a new OpenERP.com website
> soon. One of the main ideas is to make the important information easier to
> find, and add what's missing.
> This is a great opportunity to give an official status for the local
> OpenERP communities. In order to do so we propose to provide official logos
> for the communities, but most importantly to display the list of communities
> on the website, with the relevant links and info (similarly to what partners
> will have)
>
> This will not only increase their visibility but also make it very easy to
> distinguish the real ones.
>
> As I discussed with the Spanish community in Bilbao, it would also be very
> easy to setup a DNS alias for each community in the openerp.com domain.
> I propose the following pattern:
>   xx.communities.openerp.com
>
> (xx being a unique code for the community, usually the country code)
> I'd rather not have it directly at xx.openerp.com in case we need to use
> this scheme for translations of the website.
>
> If that looks good to you, feel free to post the IP or Hostname you want
> the DNS record to be aliased to for your community.
>
>
> 2.- Local communities portals
>
> It would be great to be able to offer a common platform for all local
> communities. However there is quite a difference between a simple portal
> (CMS/wiki/forum), and an integrated platform.
>
> Setting up a portal only takes a few hours, but it's already a lot more
> work if OpenERP SA has to host/setup all of this centrally, and it's also a
> different job (Web Hosting).
> So this is one area where we need the power and help of community members
> at the moment, as we really need to concentrate on releasing v6, I'm sure
> everyone agrees.
>
> As for a real integrated platform, it sounds great, but my feeling is that
> it would not be as easy to develop as it looks. In any case, I'm afraid we
> have to postpone this option until after the release of v6.
> Of course if someone in the community wants to work on it, then for
> sure we would welcome it and can advertise it as a bootstrap for other
> communities, for example on the "Local Communities" of the new website.
>
> Raphael's email is an interesting move in this direction from the Brazilian
> community.
>
>
> I hope this clarifies things a bit for everyone...
>
>
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