Community of Xfce here in Brazil

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Hey,

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:47:04 -0300
Thiago Avelino <thiagoavelinoster at gmail.com> wrote:

> As with the sarts and talked with the staff of the channel #xfce-dev
> I'm documenting here in the list on the subject:
> 
> So we'll be doing this community of Xfce Brazil, with a sub-domain of
> xfce.org, eg br.xfce.org
> Thus we can be doing shirts for promotion, banners, we do install fest
> on events here in Brazil and of course actively help in the
> translation of Xfce pr_BR.
> sarts then what do you think?
> Like Gnome BR: br.gnome.org
> 
> Speaking of mirror can be doing a mirror here in Brazil on a server
> with 100Mb link.
> This will help the people of Brazil update Xfce and even download
> faster than Xfce.
> What do you think of the idea?

I think what Thiago tries to tell us here is that

  1) The Brazilian community would like to have a platform on the web to
     present itself and Xfce to Brazilians under the subdomain
     br.xfce.org.

  2) They could also provide a Brazilian mirror for Xfce.

Here are my opinions:

1) 
I'm not sure about the subdomain. To make it easier
for other user communities to present themselves in their area, I'd
rather suggest to create a subdomain community.xfce.org or
users.xfce.org where we create subdirectories like
http://community.xfce.org/br/ or http://users.xfce.org/br/ for
different communities. Whether we put up a wiki or allow different URLs
to be redirected somewhere else is another matter. We could also create
a nice entry point on http://community.xfce.org with blog, news and
twitter aggregation for instance (this requires work though, so for now
we could just make it a list of communities which use the platform).

2) Not sure we need another mirror, but if it's reliable I wouldn't
mind. The mirror could have the subdomain br.xfce.org then, just like
tx-us.xfce.org for instance.

  - Jannis
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