[Webcom] Dutch chapter

[Milo van der Linden]

Thanks Frank,

We will keep the registration of the domain "local". Perhaps it would
be possible to start a local mini foundation to organize independent
ownership for the domainname here. I will start a discussion on dutch
and poll what the others think.

2011/10/12 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
> On 11-10-10 12:20 PM, Milo van der Linden wrote:
>>
>> Hello webcom,
>>
>> On the [Dutch] mailinglist, voices are talking about bringing the
>> Dutch chapter back to life. One of the topics discussed is to create a
>> dutch website at www.osgeo.nl
>>
>> I would like to get some information about the possibilities on
>> existing osgeo.org infrastructure, so I would like to post a couple of
>> questions here, simply to get information us dutchies can use to
>> determine our strategy.
>>
>> 1. We identified the owner of osgeo.nl, he told us that when a dutch
>> chapter is launched, he would be glad to return the domainname to the
>> chapter. Would it be possible to connect www.osgeo.nl to
>> http://www.osgeo.org/switchuilocale/nl?destination=home which would
>> automatically create a homepage for our chapter?
>>
>> 2. We are designing a logo for the dutch chapter. would we be able to
>> show that instead of the standard logo when visitors enter through
>> www.osgeo.nl or
>> http://www.osgeo.org/switchuilocale/nl?destination=home?
>>
>> 3. Would it be possible to differentiate the community blog to show
>> only blog entries written in Dutch on the dutch translation main page?
>>
>> 4. Would it be possible to remove untranslated items from the menu's
>> when browsing in dutch?
>
> Milo,
>
> Unfortunately the above items greater skill with Drupal than I
> have so I can't given a solid answer.  Unless someone with Drupal-fu
> volunteers you might have to assume the answer is no.
>
>> 5. Would it be a good idea to transfer ownership of the domain
>> osgeo.nl to the foundation?
>
> We use pairnic.com as a registry and it does not support registering
> .nl domains so it would not be particularly convenient for us to
> hold the osgeo.nl domain.
>
> Best regards,
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