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→Create the community portal
3) Put flags to other communities
3) Put flags to other communities
Put on top of your "Dolibarr XXX portal", a link with flags to others majors communities (for the moment, link to international web site https://www.dolibarr.org, french portal http://www.dolibarr.fr and spanish portal http://www.dolibarr.es). Links must appears on TOP of Home page and be visible by visitor with no need to move and scrollbar. If main links are at bottom, of you page, just add visible flags at top.
Put on top of your "Dolibarr XXX portal", a link with flags to others majors communities (for the moment, link to international web site https://www.dolibarr.org, french portal https://www.dolibarr.fr and spanish portal https://www.dolibarr.es). Links must appears on TOP of Home page and be visible by visitor with no need to move and scrollbar. If main links are at bottom, of you page, just add visible flags at top.
Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied (today users trust only international solutions, and we know that not doing this is a a marketing error making everybody waste its time).
Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied (today users trust only international solutions, and we know that not doing this is a a marketing error making everybody waste its time).
Curently flags must be provided for France: dolibarr.fr, Spain: dolibarr.es, Italy; dolibarr.it, Greece: dolibarr.gr, Germany: dolibarr.de
Curently flags must be provided for France: dolibarr.fr, Spain: dolibarr.es, Italy; dolibarr.it, Greece: dolibarr.gr, Germany: dolibarr.de
4b) If you have a commercial hosting solution of Dolibarr (Saas/Cloud) with online subscription link directly on a page of the community portal domain name (hosing service that can be used as a demo or not), check that:
4b) If you have a commercial hosting solution of Dolibarr (Saas/Cloud) with online subscription link directly on a page of the community portal domain name (hosing service that can be used as a demo or not), check that:
* The link to your commercial solution must point to another page on your own company web site and any prices must appears ONLY on this second page that is hosted on your company web site, not on the page of the community portal. No prices should appears on a community domain name because any commercial services are provided by a company not by the community.
* The link to your commercial solution must point to another page on your own company web site and any prices must appears ONLY on this second page that is hosted on your company web site, not on the page of the community portal. No prices should appears on a community domain name because any commercial services are provided by a company not by the community.
* On the community portal page, if you put links to your company solutions, you must also provide links at same place of at least 2 other competitors (goal is to show that community project is available on several providers. It's not a problem if your offer is shown first but visibility must be equals). Just take a look, to see how it must be on french community portal http://www.dolibarr.fr/demo-en-ligne or english https://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo). If you don't want to maintain a list of "ready to use" demo services, you can replace all links (yours and the 2 other competitors) by just one link to: https://saas.dolibarr.org (choose what is best for you). Alternative is to provide no link at all (nor yours, neither any other services).
* On the community portal page, if you put links to your company solutions, you must also provide links at same place of at least 2 other competitors (goal is to show that community project is available on several providers. It's not a problem if your offer is shown first but visibility must be equals). Just take a look, to see how it must be on french community portal https://www.dolibarr.fr/demo-en-ligne or english https://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo). If you don't want to maintain a list of "ready to use" demo services, you can replace all links (yours and the 2 other competitors) by just one link to: https://saas.dolibarr.org (choose what is best for you). Alternative is to provide no link at all (nor yours, neither any other services).
Goal of this rule is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule).
Goal of this rule is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule).