LoCoCreatingWebsite
Creating a Website for your LoCo Team
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The purpose of this page is to create a central resource for finding information related to creating a LoCo website.
Canonical will provide the LoCo with the hosting space needed for the website. Currently, only approved LoCos may request a website. To see how a LoCo is approved, see LoCoGettingApproved.
Create Launchpad accounts
See the LoCoHosting page for the software available. To create the required accounts:
Follow the instructions under LoCoHosting 'How to get hosting space' and create the Launchpad account.
Create a team for the LoCo on Launchpad.
Request Website
Once the Launchpad and team accounts have been created, create a request on Launchpad for your website. Include the following information in the ticket:
LoCo Wiki URL
LoCo Mailing List URL
LoCo Launchpad URL
LoCo IRC channel
LoCo Contact and their Launchpad account URL.
See the Kentucky request as an example.
Decide on Content
Decide what content will reside on the website and what will be on the wiki. Creating content on the wiki allows information to be centralized and can be found easily by rest of the Ubuntu community. See the Colorado Team's ColoradoTeam/EnhancedLoCoWeb for what features could exist on the LoCo website.
A good example of using both the wiki and a separate LoCo website is the Australia Team:
Wiki-Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam
LoCo-Website: http://ubuntu.org.au/
Select a Website Platform
Since Canonical is providing widely used software for the website, there are many options like Drupal, Joomla!, MoinMoin, or WordPress.
Drupal Resources
See the Ohio Team website as an example of the use of Drupal.
See the EdubuntuSitePublishingTools for a discussion of the pro and cons of using Drupal.
DrupalConcepts - Background information on how Drupal works.
DrupalPaths - More background information on Drupal.
DrupalHowtos - Information for creating multi-lingual sites, mailing list integration.
DrupalModules - Useful add-ons.
Joomla Resources
Help on installing and setting up Joomla!: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joomla
MoinMoin Resources
HelpOnInstalling - Installation instructions.
Instructions on how to use MoinMoin: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MoinMoin.
Wordpress Resources
Instruction to installing WordPress: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WordPress.
Django Resources
LoCoDjango - using the python-based Django framework
Forums
Forums from the website should link to the LoCo forums on ubuntuforums.org, unless its a language not supported already or there is a good reason to have a separate one. PunBB, phpBB, XMB, Drupal (integrated into the Drupal platform), and SMF have been used and are free. The popular vBulletin requires the purchase of a license.
phpBB
See the China Team forums as an example.
Installation instructions for phpBB: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PhpBB2
punBB
See the French Team forums as an example.
Installation instructions for punBB: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PunBB
SMF
See the Finnish Team forums as an example.
XMB
See the Serbian Team forums as an example.
Templates
For templates to use with some of the mentioned CMS tools and forums, see LoCoTemplates.
Additional Add-ons
Planet Aggregator
Planet allows feeds of blog posts by the LoCo's members to be displayed on the LoCo website. See Planet Ubuntu as an example. To set up such a feed, see LoCoCreatingPlanet.
LoCoMap
Creating a map of locations of a LoCo's members can be an interesting addition to the website. Take a look at the French Team map. Instructions for creating a similar map are at LoCoCreatingMap.
History
To see the history of hosting services provided for Ubuntu, visit FrDeHosting.