[ovirt-users] oVirt China User Group?

Brian Proffitt bproffit at redhat.com
Mon May 26 02:38:05 EDT 2014


Zhou:

Thanks for the correction, and the information!

BKP

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: "Brian Proffitt" <bproffit at redhat.com>, "Mark Wu" <wudxw at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: "适兕" <lijiangsheng1 at gmail.com>, users at ovirt.org, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, "Halley Han"
> <halleyhan at cloud-times.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 9:34:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt China User Group?
> 
> Brian,
> 
> It seems to be http://cloud-times.com/ , and Halley Han from cloud-tims
> is in the CC list. Maybe Halley Han will reply the mail in some minutes.
> 
> on 2014/05/26 14:28, Brian Proffitt wrote:
> > Mark:
> > 
> > Assuming you mean these folks (http://cloudtimes.org/), do you have any
> > contact info for them?
> > 
> > Peace,
> > Brian
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Mark Wu" <wudxw at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> To: "Brian Proffitt" <bproffit at redhat.com>, "Zhou Zheng Sheng"
> >> <zhshzhou at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> Cc: "适兕" <lijiangsheng1 at gmail.com>, users at ovirt.org, "Dan Kenigsberg"
> >> <danken at redhat.com>, "Halley Han"
> >> <halleyhan at cloud-times.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 9:13:49 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt China User Group?
> >>
> >> On 05/23/2014 06:35 PM, Brian Proffitt wrote:
> >>> The rental issue is a possibility. As you say, we would need to make sure
> >>> that look and feel was mirrored. Is this something, perhaps, that IBM
> >>> could assist us with setting up?
> >> Get cloud-times involved because probably they could provide resource
> >> support somehow to build oVirt user group in China. So we can continue
> >> the discussion to make the request clear.
> >>>
> >>> A question I have is, when you start adding new content, would we be able
> >>> to have some of it translated into English to use on the ovirt.org?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you so much for the interest! Please reach out to me to coordinate
> >>> community efforts and let me know what you need in terms of
> >>> content/assistance for local meetings/events.
> >>>
> >>> Peace,
> >>> Brian Proffitt
> >>> oVirt Community Manager
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>>> To: "适兕" <lijiangsheng1 at gmail.com>, users at ovirt.org, "Mark Wu"
> >>>> <wudxw at linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Dan Kenigsberg"
> >>>> <danken at redhat.com>
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:14:20 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt China User Group?
> >>>>
> >>>> on 2014/05/22 17:44, 适兕 wrote:
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm writing to the list in reference to helping setting up a user group
> >>>>> in
> >>>>> China.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As the oVirt community develops rapidly, there is a growing number of
> >>>>> users
> >>>>> from China who have deployed oVirt, even in their production
> >>>>> environment.
> >>>>> However, there is hardly voice/feedback from these users.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For better spreading oVirt in China, and to help more Chinese users get
> >>>>> into touch with the whole oVirt community, I am going to help setting
> >>>>> up
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> oVirt user group in China.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Things that the user group might help:
> >>>>>    0. translating articles, discussions, case studies on the oVirt
> >>>>>    website
> >>>>>    1. organizing online(irc, mailing list) and offline discussions
> >>>>>    about
> >>>>> oVirt
> >>>>>    2. volunteering in test week
> >>>>>    3. bug fixing
> >>>>>    4. developing features related to localization
> >>>>>
> >>>>> By the way, when translating articles, should we setup a new individual
> >>>>> website or just do the l10n work on http://www.ovirt.org? If the
> >>>>> former,
> >>>>> should we keep the look and feel the same with the oVirt website?
> >>>> Great! I have some suggestions.
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. If it is possible, we'd better rent a (virtual/cloud) server inside
> >>>> China. Sometimes it's very slow to access ovirt.org. Maybe we can also
> >>>> have a sub-domain name such as cnuser.ovirt.org, and make the outlook of
> >>>> cnuser the same as oVirt main site.
> >>>>
> >>>> 2. Considering the content, we can start by translating primary pages
> >>>> and slides in ovirt.org. I think in China most of the technical people
> >>>> are able to read English, so it is not necessary to translate all the
> >>>> pages. We shall then provide new content that is different from the
> >>>> oVirt main site. For example, successful customer stories, technical
> >>>> experience sharing, and all the things you mentioned in the mail.
> 
> 


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