Hi Folks, I concur with Gilad and the Makor board in the view that www.linux.org.il should be a portal to all Linux activities in Israel, not just IGLU. We need a portal that will sell Linux to the wider community, including folks who are not English literate sys-admins.
I do think that IGLU needs to re-define itself as a result of this change. My suggestion would be that IGLU re-position itself in the post-sale support market - that is, concentrate on giving good support to people who are already sold on Linux, and on providing an Israeli, English language Linux forum where the non Hebrew-speaking crowd will feel as comfortable as it is possible to feel with us in any language. Regards, - yba On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 09:48, guy keren wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > That said, I think I'll take Ilya's design. You can view it at > > > http://furr.shiny.co.il/linux.org.il/. Does anyone have any objections? > > > > no. after some text editing (i could do that if needed, once the text is > > ready), some fixes to the 'what is linux' page (on galeon 1.2 that comes > > with redhat 7.3, the images are shown on the left, on top of part of the > > text), and completing the site, it could do well. > > Indeed. > > > > the only question to ask is - are we (iglu) letting go of the linux.org.il > > domain in favor of such a neutral entry page? this is the question that > > should have been asked - lets not do this change like thieves in the > > night. and my vote would be 'a painfull ok' :0 > > Some background is due: the linux.org.il domain has been purchased and owned > by Jonathan Ben Avraham for the purpose of serving the community and he chose > to direct it to the IGLU web site. > > Jonatan was generous enough to donate the ownership of the domain to HaMakor > under the condition that it will be used in accordance of HaMakor goals. As > such, we consider ourselves to be stewreds (נאמנים) of this domain for the > community. > > We (Hamakor board) believe that the domain will better serve the community as > a general "portal" to Israeli Linux web resources, both Hebrew and otherwise > (including IGLU, of course, but also the pengiun, whatsup, linux.israel.net, > Haifux, TAUX, Perl/Python resources, various Linux forums, Hamakor and so > forth), rather then a simple redirect to IGLU as it is now. > > Note that this is our opinion - not a decision, right now. If someone thinks > that this is bad idea, please speak up. If someone has other ideas what to do > with the domain *and is willing to implement them*, please speak up. In > short, we're looking for feedback, but most important - for active help. > > Cheers, > Gilad > > -- EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
