Need help with a site

[Danny Stieben]

Hello there everyone :)

I want to start a project concerning Fedora, but I need some help.
First, let me explain...

I've become a fan of the site OMG!Ubuntu! (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk).
It's a great place for people that aren't complete geeks that dive into
code learn about different apps in Ubuntu, as well as any features,
whether new (such as constantly changing features in beta) or existing
ones. They also have interviews of some important people to the open
source community. They also have a sister site, known as OMG!SUSE!,
which, of course, has approximately the same kind of content for openSUSE.

Now, to my idea/project.... I'd like to make a site that would pretty
much be an OMG!Fedora! site for everyone to enjoy. This would be plenty
different from Planet Fedora because most posts on there dig into code
from some tiny area, and doesn't have a lot of meaning to most "average"
Linux users.

I hope that this turns into something great, but before that happens, I
would need help for a few things. Right now, I have the following:
* A web server to host it on (self-maintained and everything)
* A decent internet connection to handle light traffic

I would need help on the following:
* Funding for domain name and DNS services (all this together would add
up to about $55/year, decent email service that goes with the domain
name would add a good chunk more.
* Help with building and designing the site. I have experience starting
sites, but they are mostly a collection of pre-made stuff, like Joomla!
and themes that are made for it.

Any help or even expression of interest in such a site would be greatly
appreciated! Thank you!
-- 
Danny Stieben
Fedora Ambassador
http://www.fedoraproject.org
dmaxel(a)fedoraproject.org
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:dmaxel

[Juan J. Martínez]

El mar, 07-09-2010 a las 22:08 -0500, Danny Stieben escribió:
>  [...]
>  
>  I would need help on the following:
>  * Funding for domain name and DNS services (all this together would add
>  up to about $55/year, decent email service that goes with the domain
>  name would add a good chunk more. 
A .com domain it's about $30/year or less, it depends on the provider,
and you can use Google Mail with your domain (that part is free).

Alternatively you can use a blogging service such as wordpress.com and
attach the blog to the domain (with wordpress.com this "attachment"
service it's about $20/year, if IIRC).

So you need about $50, using free available services for most of your
site. I don't like OMG!U specially, but it may be a good idea a site
like this focused on Fedora.

Cheers,

Juanjo

[Juan J. Martínez]

El mié, 08-09-2010 a las 08:32 +0200, Juan J. Martínez escribió:
>  [...]
>  
>  So you need about $50, using free available services for most of your
>  site. I don't like OMG!U specially, but it may be a good idea a site
>  like this focused on Fedora.
>   
Sorry, I was wrong: wordpress.com includes DNS management for that $20
fee (I'm not sure of this amount anyway), and allows you to use gmail as
mail service for the domain.

So you need to register a domain and map it in wordpress ($17/year if
you use wodpress to register the domain).

Cheers,

Juanjo

PS: I'm not related to wordpress.com or Google, it's just an example of
"cheap" solution for blog + domain + mail. I bet there are other
suitable options as well.

[María Leandro]

Godaddy has 12$ domains and you can handle your dns with websites like
zonedit (free)

http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx

<http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx>

El 8 de septiembre de 2010 02:29, Juan J. <jjm(a)usebox.net&gt; escribió:

>  El mié, 08-09-2010 a las 08:32 +0200, Juan J. Martínez escribió:
>  > [...]
>  >
>  > So you need about $50, using free available services for most of your
>  > site. I don't like OMG!U specially, but it may be a good idea a site
>  > like this focused on Fedora.
>  >
>
>  Sorry, I was wrong: wordpress.com includes DNS management for that $20
>  fee (I'm not sure of this amount anyway), and allows you to use gmail as
>  mail service for the domain.
>
>  So you need to register a domain and map it in wordpress ($17/year if
>  you use wodpress to register the domain).
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Juanjo
>
>  PS: I'm not related to wordpress.com or Google, it's just an example of
>  "cheap" solution for blog + domain + mail. I bet there are other
>  suitable options as well.
>
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>  


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[Danny Stieben]

On 9/8/2010 1:59 AM, Juan J. Martínez wrote:
>  El mié, 08-09-2010 a las 08:32 +0200, Juan J. Martínez escribió:
> > [...]
> >
> > So you need about $50, using free available services for most of your
> > site. I don't like OMG!U specially, but it may be a good idea a site
> > like this focused on Fedora.
> >
>  
>  Sorry, I was wrong: wordpress.com includes DNS management for that $20
>  fee (I'm not sure of this amount anyway), and allows you to use gmail as
>  mail service for the domain.
>  
>  So you need to register a domain and map it in wordpress ($17/year if
>  you use wodpress to register the domain).
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>  Juanjo
>  
>  PS: I'm not related to wordpress.com or Google, it's just an example of
>  "cheap" solution for blog + domain + mail. I bet there are other
>  suitable options as well.
>  
>  --
>  ambassadors mailing list
>  ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors 
Hmmm, true, if we
would use Wordpress then it would probably be cheaper
and more suited for the potential traffic, as we probably wouldn't need
all the flexibility of running a server ourselves.

The GoDaddy idea doesn't sound bad either, but I haven't used zoneedit
yet, just mainly DynDNS.

Also, this came in a little later after I sent this to the mailing list,
but I got a response from duffy (IRC: mizmo) who was really interested
in the idea, but mentioned that there was already a project (called
Fedora Insight) in progress that at least had a similar goal (user-centric).

The wiki page for it is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight

A mockup is here: http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/ce/FooBar.png

How to help: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight#How_to_help

And discussions would be on the logistics mailing list:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/logistics

Now I'm not quite sure if I want to completely go away from the idea
that I had in favor of Fedora Insight, but at least I know (and you guys
know now too) that it exists.

-- 
Danny Stieben
Fedora Ambassador
http://www.fedoraproject.org
dmaxel(a)fedoraproject.org
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:dmaxel

[inode0]

2010/9/8 Danny Stieben <dmaxel(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  The GoDaddy idea doesn't sound bad either, but I haven't used
> zoneedit
>  yet, just mainly DynDNS. 
GoDaddy happens to offer Fedora as an OS for various hosted solutions
as well for what that's worth (it makes them stand out in the crowd a
bit for me).

>  Also, this came in a little later after I sent this to the mailing
> list,
>  but I got a response from duffy (IRC: mizmo) who was really interested
>  in the idea, but mentioned that there was already a project (called
>  Fedora Insight) in progress that at least had a similar goal (user-centric).
>
>  The wiki page for it is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight
>
>  A mockup is here: http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/ce/FooBar.png
>
>  How to help: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight#How_to_help
>
>  And discussions would be on the logistics mailing list:
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/logistics
>
>  Now I'm not quite sure if I want to completely go away from the idea
>  that I had in favor of Fedora Insight, but at least I know (and you guys
>  know now too) that it exists. 
This is the reason I pointed you in the direction of mizmo. Perhaps
you should join the FI party for a while and see if you can help make
it accomplish your goals too?!

John

[Ivan Pacheco Martinez]

  El 07/09/2010 10:08 p.m., Danny Stieben escribió:
>  Hello there everyone :)
>
>  I want to start a project concerning Fedora, but I need some help.
>  First, let me explain...
>
>  I've become a fan of the site OMG!Ubuntu! (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk).
>  It's a great place for people that aren't complete geeks that dive into
>  code learn about different apps in Ubuntu, as well as any features,
>  whether new (such as constantly changing features in beta) or existing
>  ones. They also have interviews of some important people to the open
>  source community. They also have a sister site, known as OMG!SUSE!,
>  which, of course, has approximately the same kind of content for openSUSE.
>
>  Now, to my idea/project.... I'd like to make a site that would pretty
>  much be an OMG!Fedora! site for everyone to enjoy. This would be plenty
>  different from Planet Fedora because most posts on there dig into code
>  from some tiny area, and doesn't have a lot of meaning to most "average"
>  Linux users.
>
>  I hope that this turns into something great, but before that happens, I
>  would need help for a few things. Right now, I have the following:
>  * A web server to host it on (self-maintained and everything)
>  * A decent internet connection to handle light traffic
>
>  I would need help on the following:
>  * Funding for domain name and DNS services (all this together would add
>  up to about $55/year, decent email service that goes with the domain
>  name would add a good chunk more.
>  * Help with building and designing the site. I have experience starting
>  sites, but they are mostly a collection of pre-made stuff, like Joomla!
>  and themes that are made for it.
>
>  Any help or even expression of interest in such a site would be greatly
>  appreciated! Thank you!
>
>
>  --
>  ambassadors mailing list
>  ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors 

Hello Danny.

Great idea. I can help you with the website design. Please contact me.


--
Ivan Pacheco Martínez
Fedora Ambassador
pakzech(a)fedoraproject.org
http://ivan.pachekosystems.es

Ohio LinuxFest this weekend

[Ben Williams]

  For all ambassadors going to Ohio Linuxfest this weekend please signup 
for booth time so everyone can enjoy the event.


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ohio_Linux_Fest_2010#Saturday_Booth_Schedule


Thanks

Ben Williams