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pepjbotscharow: hi, just saw the updates you did on the wiki14:54
pepwhat exactly is not clear ?14:54
pepThe idea is to save a lot of time in the process of searching for material. We want a site that is really helpful for the marketeer. If, once SU has grown big, s/he has to browse through thousands of archives before finding '''the''' ressource s/he was looking for, doing it himself would have taken less time.14:54
pepyou don't understand what I mean?14:55
jbotscharowpep:sorry was distracted for a minute14:55
jbotscharowI am not sure what you are trying to say14:55
pepnot a problem, I didn't await you to reply straight away ;)14:56
jbotscharowgive me a sec to catch up on reading14:56
jbotscharowdoing it himself would have taken less time14:58
pepwhat I am trying to say is: we must think of a working upload process, in order to have the easiest possible browsing process...14:58
jbotscharowthis is the part I don't quite understand14:58
pepyeah, sorry, I meant creating the logo/presentation/whatever .... would have taken less time than searching for it14:58
pepit's not essential14:58
pepI'll delete it14:58
jbotscharowok/ how faniliar r u with drupal?14:59
pepIf, once SU has grown big, s/he has to browse through thousands of archives before finding '''the''' ressource s/he was looking for, we won't have achieved our goal.15:00
pepthis ok?15:00
jbotscharowbetter15:00
jbotscharowI understand it, at least LOL15:01
pepok15:01
pepno, I am not very used to drupal, I use CMS Made Simple for all my sites, or wordpress15:01
pepdon't know wwhat you're talking about with taxonomy15:01
jbotscharowanyway, did you write that page?15:01
pepthe project page?15:01
pepI wrote parts of it15:02
pepit is a building-up, I think some things are still from the old DIYWebsite page..15:02
pepwell15:02
pepwhat I mean is that it is not "one" persone that writes it15:02
jbotscharowwell, a suggestion - keep the gender specific pronouns to a minimum15:02
pepok, thanks15:03
pepit is because I have difficulties finding a neutral one ;)15:03
jbotscharowAmerican femals are feminists LOL15:03
pepotherwise, I'd have to say "one will do this" and "one is going to...."15:03
jbotscharowthey take offense if it is all male15:03
pepbut I see your point15:03
pepthanks15:03
pepwhy the question about drupal?15:04
jbotscharowas far as srupal goes, it is organized - the contentr- using taxonomies15:04
pepto tell the truth, I did not really understand the entire paragraph about taxonomy stuff...15:04
jbotscharowwhich can be free tags or structured tags15:04
pepI see15:04
jbotscharowcan be only one level or hierarchical15:05
jbotscharowmakes for lots of fun stiff and very good search15:05
jbotscharowwhen we organzie and classify content, we need to keep dripal taxonomic capabilties in mind15:06
pepyes, I'm sure it is not a problem with drupal actually... my fear is that it is difficult to implement on the LP side, as we want an uploaded object to keep these tags everywhere.. but we're going to have to see a lot of things with a bzr expert, we are planing a meeting with one or two shortly..15:06
jbotscharowuse our calssification headings as tanonomy categories15:06
jbotscharowI think this is where the FF plug in might come in handy. I don't know how complicated we can make the menu, but15:07
jbotscharowig we can do fairly complicated menu in the plug in, that will help some15:08
jbotscharowI don't really know enough about LP to comment on that issue15:09
jbotscharowjust saw ur comment about taxonomu15:09
jbotscharowwant me to explain it here and now? 15:10
pepno, it's ok15:10
pepI wikipediad and googled15:10
jbotscharowLOL15:10
jbotscharowi don't blame you15:10
pepI associated it with other CMSes I've sued15:10
jbotscharowit15:10
pepused15:10
pephehe sure ;)15:10
pepjust a thing..15:10
jbotscharowit's a little different15:11
jbotscharowmuch more flexible15:11
jbotscharowthat's why I use it for my site15:11
pepyeah, I'm planning getting handy with drupal.. building up the new ubuntu-be site15:11
pepif I understand you well, you want to use a FF plugin to browse SU?15:11
jbotscharowlet's just say we can build tag system to match how we classify contnet15:12
jbotscharowand then put that system onto say an upload form so people can pick and choose where their upload is classified15:12
jbotscharowand all that ties into drupal's site search15:13
jbotscharowmakes finding sutff very easy if it is implemented correctly15:13
jbotscharowwhat I really like avout dru[al is that you can completely customize user permissions15:14
jbotscharowfor a community site that is very nice15:14
jbotscharowand it has lots of modules that do lots of different things so we can pick and choose what we want to add aobve the core15:15
jbotscharowmuch like Ubuntu15:15
jbotscharowwhich is why I love Ubunut15:16
jbotscharowre:FF plugin- if it can be done - menu plugin that has SU plug in - categories of content- to make getting content easy15:18
pepI see15:18
jbotscharowsort of like the Ubuntu plug ins but maybe more sophisticated15:18
pepI'm not sure it is of great interest... in revenge what will be useful, once Su will be up, is a search bar for FF ... but that's done in a couple of minutes ;)15:19
pepbut could be an idea...15:19
pepI'l check on these plugins sometime15:19
jbotscharowI have been playing IRC tag with the programmer who did the plugin for the italian team15:19
jbotscharowhe is on mozilla team for extensions15:19
jbotscharow see what he thinks of this and what can be done15:20
jbotscharowmenu-it is the one I installed by accident and is where i got my inspriation15:21
jbotscharowit may be that what SU would need for an effective plug in will be technically not possible15:22
jbotscharowdo'nt know15:22
jbotscharowbut I am at least going to ask him15:22
jbotscharow:-)15:22
jbotscharowRuben says my typing will improve the more I use IRC. Hope he;s right LOL15:23
pepjupp, should :)15:25
pepthe problem is, you type faster and faster, and I often think ahead of my fingers, which ends in a big mundling up of everything ;)15:25
boredandbloggingpep, jbotscharow, in the SpreadUbuntu/Projects page, it says drupal code will be uploaded daily...from where?15:37
pepnot drupal code actually...15:37
boredandbloggingmaterial that got uploaded?15:38
pepwe're talking about synchronising the marketing ressource databases...15:38
pepbecause we will have the BD on SU, but be constantly working on another DB, in LP that is, translating, etc...15:38
pepDB15:38
boredandbloggingyou don't really mean db, you mean files right?15:40
pepa group of people will be assigned to the supervision and quality control, and give their agreement to sync with the SU databse...15:40
pepyeah15:40
boredandbloggingyeah, ok15:40
pepbut these will have to be classified in a certain way of course15:40
pepso that we don't get losts, what I talked about earlier..15:40
peplost*15:40
boredandbloggingpep: the drupal and LP integration, I know there Canonical was working on a tool for that, has it been released?15:42
jbotscharowpep: I'm back. sorry. got pm from the mozilla team programmer :-)15:47
pephey, sorry, was just out15:47
jbotscharowso was I15:47
jbotscharowI finally heard from the programmer15:47
jbotscharowthis may be, technically speaking, a lot easier that we thought15:48
pepboredandblogging: I'm not sure, we actually talked with hubuntu about contacting a LP guru about how to make this integration real.. it is the heart of the SU project, as we want to be able to use all of LPs possibilities (translation, bzr, Q&A...), this is really good if canonical was already wworking ona tool for this....15:48
boredandbloggingpep: they are working on it, but I don't think its been released yet15:49
jbotscharowboredandblogging: Hi, Nick15:49
boredandblogginghi jbotscharow15:49
pepok, good to know, I'm writing it down to keep track...15:49
jbotscharowI got some serious reading to do, so I will tty you guys later15:50
pepLaunchpad integration in Drupal. => Implementation:   Not started16:11
pepmhh actually this is only relative to the beeseek project..16:17
Flannelpep: Drupal is arbitrary.  We can use any/no existing CMS16:42
pepOk...16:42
FlannelBut, With each item, we'll need additional information anyway (creator, license, description, etc).  So what I imagine (and what I'll be proposing) is that there is a metafile for each item (an item could always include multiple files, this will allow for that) in bzr, with all the metainformation, plus a list of files.16:43
pepFlannel: anyway, that concerned beeseek, I don't suppose it will be very useful to us, I think boredandblogging must have been talking of something else.16:44
pepyes, a metafile is good.16:44
Flannelpep: What on earth is beeseek?16:44
pepit is a project for an open source search engine16:44
FlannelOh.  No, we wont be needing a search engine, just a DB SELECT statement16:45
pepbut there is no more info about the Launchpad Integration blueprint 16:45
FlannelAnd then the website checks the diffs of bazaar [whenever we schedule it], and then modifies its own index of stuff (in a DB on the site) to include the new content16:45
FlannelThe DB itself will include all the content from bazaar (probably without history), so that if bzr goes down, the site still runs (this also cuts down on search time, etc).  So each diff it'll load up new content (just the changed files), and load up new meta information16:46
FlannelBut, it shouldn't be hard to make a diff -> SQL bridge thing.  Since we don't care about the changes themselves, just the files that were affected16:47
pepthat sounds really good, exactly what we imagined, if you say this is all possible then that's perfect16:47
pepOk...16:47
pepI found two projects working on somehow connecting drupal to LP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/qa-portal and the well known https://launchpad.net/loco-drupal-support ... but I'm not sure if they will be of any use...16:47
Flannelthis also means that anyone can import straight with bzr16:47
Flannel(and also means anyone can check out straight from bzr)16:48
pepthat was the aim anyway.. and to push it even further we thought of a small app, similar to 5-a-day, to upload material16:48
pepmeisok's idea.. he explained it in spanish though I think..16:48
boredandbloggingpep: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+spec/ssov2-drupal-plugin/16:49
FlannelDirectory structure inside of bzr is up in the air, and really could be anything, but, to ease the aforementioned bzr interfaces, I imagine the tree inside of the VCS should be categorized, etc.  Probably with one folder per item at the bottom end16:49
pepah, I thought that just conerned openID boredandblogging.... thanks...16:49
FlannelWith the category stuff still part of the metafile, the onyl reason it's foldered out is just for ease of browsing16:49
FlannelI'm not sure we have to do a whole lot of openID support.  If we implement all of the transactions through bzr, you just pass the credentials through to LP.16:50
pepFlannel: I see, that's good.16:50
FlannelWe don't personally have to know anything about the person, we just transparently pass it through to LP through a bzr command16:51
pepmhh.. yes, but for some other SU applications (map, and some other things...) it could be interesting...16:51
boredandblogginganyone try this before? http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost16:52
boredandbloggingits supposed to deal with authoring, licensing, tagging, etc16:53
Flannelpep: Regarding your separate domain, while I think it could be useful, I'm not really sure its necessary, and the argument that you link to spreadubuntu to do just that (if I give you a link to spreadubuntu, I am spreading ubuntu)16:53
pepyeah... maybe...16:54
pepit's not fundamental anyway...16:54
FlannelYes, it doesn't fall in line with spreadfirefox, but... we shouldn't be idolizing the mozilla project.  They've made plenty of mistakes16:54
pepconcerning that I came up with two ideas I still have to put somewhere on a wiki... for one, some sort of ubuntu-digg, collecting articles and links advocating ubuntu, etc... 16:54
pepoh yeah Flannel, I share your view on that16:55
pepand for the second point concerning other SU applications, I thought of a kind of loco-twitter, where the locos report their current activities and projects, this would share all the good project ideas to the all the other locos, as well as give a sense of pride to see ones loco being voted for... might be mergeable with the marketing-brainstorm idea...16:56
pepccHost is interesting17:02
FlannelLoCo teams definately need some cheerleading, yeah.  We'll be advertising those too as part of the 'here17:06
FlannelLoCo teams definately need some cheerleading, yeah.  We'll be advertising those too as part of the 'here's what Ubuntu is, here's how you can help'17:06
pepyes17:07
FlannelThat's why I figured its best to include the "here is all about ubuntu" stuff, because it rounds out the site nicely, and we can make sure we talk in terms they understand.  Since other ones dont necessarily.17:09
FlannelBut anyway, I'm off.  I'll be back tonight.17:09
pepactually I had a laugh this afternoon... I solved this guy's problem on LP answers, and he came back to ask me another related detail... and at the end he wrote: "PS: If I can be of any help or do something in exchange of your kind servies, please let me know!!!"17:10
pepso, this is definitely something we can work on, as people are not used to the help-each-other-out spirit of ubuntu...17:10
pepI'm off too, good bye17:12

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