Create a Dolibarr local community

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This page is dedicated to list the guide line to help local user groups to build their own community around Dolibarr project.

Things required to start

All following things are required to start to manage a local Dolibarr users' group or community. Please do all of this in same order than povided:

1) You must be a local foundation or user group or a local company.

2) If you are a company or a foundation using Dolibarr: Add your company name to the following pages List_of_Dolibarr_users.

3) If you are a company: Add your name into the category "Other partners" for your country on the page: List_of_OpenSource_Software_companies_and_freelancers

4) Create an account onto this wiki (link on top right). Then create a page specific with page name that is your personal name (firstname lastname, not your company or foundation name).

For this, once login on this wiki, go on page Laurent_Destailleur and change URL with your own firstname and lastname, and click on button "Create" after submitting new URL. Then, you can make a copy and paste of content of page Laurent_Destailleur and replace content with your own personal information. Fill paragraph "Other informations / Autres informations / Otra información" to tell what you did or plan to do for Dolibarr. The goal of this is to have a card inside this wiki, whose goal is to provide information on all Dolibarr actors. It's also the first time you provide structured and public information to main Dolibarr team (the Dolibarr foundation board team) to let us know you exists.

5) Check translation for the language of your country is completed and accurate. If not, this is the next step to work on. So send us translations at contact@dolibarr.org (See also page Translator_documentation to know how to fix the translation manually with the firefox plugin).

6) Next step is to check the default setup provided by last version of Dolibarr is complete for your country (list of vat rates, list of states). If not, send us SQL requests to have setup complete into Dolibarr sources installer (See all files into htdocs\install\mysql\data, complete them for your country and send them to us at contact@dolibarr.org).

7) Now, you can create a dedicated web site for your country called the "Dolibarr XXX portal" where XXX is your country. You can use tool of your choice for that. We recommend however Joomla as it is CMS used for other existing Dolibarr portals. This might be an important work. Also you will be able to reuse the same template than dolibarr.org portal. Joomal template is available into GIT repository: git://github.com/Dolibarr/foundation.git

Once your site is online, you can ask the Dolibarr foundation to make the domain TLD name for your country (if the foundation owns it) to be redirected to your web site (for this, send a mail to contact@dolibarr.org with current URL of your portal and country it was designed for). If domain name for your country is not owned by foundation yet, you can buy it by yourself.

8) Put on top of your "Dolibarr XXX portal", a link with flags to others majors communities (for the moment, link to international web site http://www.dolibarr.org, french portal http://www.dolibarr.fr and spanish portal http://www.dolibarr.es).

9) If you are a foundation only: Install Dolibarr to manage your members and create a generic account for international foundation and sent it to contact@dolibarr.org (you will probably start with only two or three members, we started like this too !).

10) Once all steps are done, let us know by email (contact@dolibarr.org), but you can also send email to use frequently to let us now at which step you are. This means you are ready to animate your community (see next chapter).

Animate your community

Once all previous steps are done, you are then free to animate your community like you want.

Do all actions you want to do in the way you want. This is some ideas :

• Organize Barcamp or devcamp
• Man stands into congress (For example, french community presents Dolibarr into Salon_Solution_Linux_2010, Salon_Solution_Linux_2010).
• Picnicks

You can use all materials provided by the Dolibarr foundation and available at GitHub repository: git://github.com/Dolibarr/foundation.git You will find rollups, flyers, logos, etc you can use.

Things recommanded

You are free to animate your community like you want. But following this list of advices is recommanded to have your community growing.

• Translate the svg file used to create rollups for your language. You can then use it to generated a jpg file to buy a rollup to use into congress, forums, trade show or put it into show rooms.

This is the two important point to have a big community :

• Post a lot of news onto local web sites, magazines for your country (the more you promote Dolibarr, the more you will get new users, new partners (or new customers if you are a company). When such news appears on a major media, tell us (contact@dolibarr.org).

• Man a stand into Opensource congress or forums: This is a very good way to have fun and to make Dolibarr growing into your country.

Note:

When all things into chapter "Things required" are completed, if you are a company you may also apply to be a Preferred Partner. See Dolibarr Preferred Partner. It will also be a good thing if you are yourself a member of internationnal Dolibarr foundation. See page Subscribe.

Things allowed

• Use Dolibarr logo on your web site.
• Use any materials provided by Dolibarr foundation and available into GitHub repository: git://github.com/Dolibarr/foundation.git

You will find rollups, flyers, guides, logos, templates, etc you can translate or use for your need.

• Add your own Google Adwords tags (but ads must be limited to 2 by pages). All gains are yours.
• Add links to any other Dolibarr web site (local or international) like the download central page: http://www.dolibarr.org/download/ , forum or any other pages
• Post news (into english only) onto official Dolibarr mailing-lists (user, dev).

Things forbidden

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