[Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup}

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
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> and now, the 1000 rupee question - who does the css and design? Whoever does
> it has to work with Noufal to make sure that the announcement of the
> conference with dates and venue is up on some wiki with the css (maybe by
> monday).

A bare minimum CSS is fine. As long as it's not geocities.

> next, integration of the css with fossconf site - again I think this is
> Ramdas.
>
> and ugly urls - we will take care of those. As for archiving, I assure you
> that an auto-archive will be in place for the closing ceremony of the
> conference.

Yeah. This isn't gating.

> the site needs a user manual - I will do that when I return. also add the menu
> items for scheduling so that people can do it in a jiffy instead of spending
> hours trying to do it.

I think it'd be quicker if you send out a mail asking for site admins
and just email them with basic instructions rather than sit down to
make a full manual. A couple of folks who did the same work that
Ponnuswamy and Devyan did last year. Perhaps they themselves if
they're free and willing.

> I am currently in gods own e country and my tata indicom connection refuses to
> access bitbucket, so any contribution of mine will have to wait till monday.

Two people who are currently working on FOSSConf I feel have strengths
that are extremely valuable beyond the technical area. You with the
society/account related matters and Ramdas with contacts to the media
that can help advertising. We slipped on the latter front last time.

It won't be *that* hard to find more coders but the other skills are rarer.

> (incidentaly I am here as a guest of the IT ministry and they have shown
> considerable interest in sponsoring and hosting the 2011 conference). Till now
> gods own e country was pure php land - that is changing, python is going to
> rule.

That's nice. Govt. sponsorships will *definitely* help PR but I've
heard that they take a LONG time.

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~noufal
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