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[Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>]

That sounds like a good plan. Right now, it's about 10:25 a.m. UTC. I
have to work from about 5:00 a.m. UTC until around 9:00 a.m. UTC
tomorrow (tonight for me), and I normally sleep from about 1:00 p.m. UTC
until around 8 or 9 p.m. UTC (but I can adjust that tomorrow if
necessary).  On Sunday, I'm pretty much stuck with sleeping from around
1 to 8 or 9, as I have to work that evening (from about 12:00 a.m. UTC
until 10:00 a.m. on Monday).

For Kevin, or anyone in my time zone (CDT), I work at 11:00 tonight
until 4:00 tomorrow morning, and normally sleep from 8 am. to 3 or 4 pm.
And, on Sunday I have to work from 7 p.m. until 5 a.m on Monday.

If you want to do it via Skype, my name on there is patrickdickey_52761.
We can meet in IRC also, if that works better.

Have a great weekend. :)
Patrick.

On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 10:24 +0100, Paddy Landau wrote:
> Patrick, you sent the link about WordPress at my request, and I have
> been investigating it. I have in fact set up a test WordPress site
> just to test multilingualism.
> 
> I think you may have some valuable experience in this regard.
> 
> I do know PHP, albeit not at an expert level, and can certainly help
> with things such as drop-down menus. I would prefer to stay away from
> customisations as far as is possible because, as Kevin has said, we
> need this to be maintainable by non-technical people.
> 
> My suggestion is that Kevin, you and I take this off-list (so we don't
> clutter it up) and have a bit of a chat. I'd hate to duplicate work
> that someone else is already doing.
> 
> Sometime this weekend would be great for me, whether on IRC, Skype or
> some other method.
> 
> What do you think — Patrick and Kevin, and whoever else wants to join
> in?
> 
> Paddy
> 
> On 26/07/12 23:09, Patrick Dickey wrote:
> 
> > I agree with Paddy, that WordPress (or another CMS system like Drupal)
> > would be the best way to go. With WordPress at least, you can
> > 
> > 1.  Configure logins and permissions for the editors and other admin.
> > 2.  Change the theme relatively easily (and even create your own
> > themes).
> > 3.  Create multi-lingual sites.
> > 
> > And because it's all php based, you should be able to create a string
> > with the language code in it, so the user will download the manual for
> > whatever language the site is in.  You might even be able to create a
> > dropdown, where they can pick whatever language it's avialable in (in
> > case they're viewing it in one language but want it in another).
> > 
> > Depending on whether you used any php on the test site, you might be
> > able to migrate it over without a lot of major changes.
> > 
> > Some questions that I have are these (and they're meant to help whoever
> > develops the site)
> > 
> > 1.  Would it be safe to say that the look and feel of
> > test.ubuntu-manual.org is what you're after?
> > 2.  Do you have a template page for the test site (without any text in
> > it)?
> > 3.  Are you able to install a CMS on the current host, or will you need
> > to find new hosting?
> > 
> > 
> > All in all, you've got the right idea. Get the requirements down, then
> > create a mockup of what you want the site to look like. Then create the
> > site itself.  I should note, that I'm not a web developer (as my
> > partially created site will definitely show), but I do occasionally
> > tutor some of the web development courses in my local college.
> > 
> > I would say that if the test site will convert over to a php-based site,
> > it looks like the best way to go. Since it's all there--just needing to
> > be tweaked a bit.
> > 
> > I've got about 3 hours before I have to leave for work, so I'll do a
> > little research into actually creating a multi-lingual site in
> > WordPress. I did post a couple of links to the group a while back, so
> > I'll add those to the page (along with any information I can find about
> > specifying the language used in the download).
> > 
> > Have a great day:)
> > Patrick.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 09:55 +0200, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote: 
> > > Hello all,
> > > So far, we have not been able to find developers to build a new website 
> > > for us. But maybe one day someone knocks on our door and says: hey, I 
> > > want to take up this challenge! Who knows ;)
> > > In that case, we need to point out what it is we want. John already 
> > > created the following page:
> > > 
> > > http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/UMP-needs
> > > 
> > > I added parts of our brainstorming email correspondence (Kevin, Hannie, 
> > > c7p) to this pad. If you have any ideas, just add it to this public pad.
> > > Hannie
> > > 
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