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This page is a 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 provided here. If you want to work into an international project, you must also accept rules, and this page is one of this stupid rule (but not so stupid for us):

Prerequisites

0) Check if a community for your region/country/language already exists. If it does, try to join the existing community instead.

1) You must be a local foundation, or group of friends knowing open source software, or a local company, speaking english to be able to exchange with international foundation.

2) Create an account onto this wiki. Then login to 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 Firstname Lastname 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 Firstname Lastname and replace content with your own personal information. Fill paragraph "Other information / 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.

Also, submit a photo of yourself as a png file from a file that must be named "Firstname Lastname.png" (submit link is link "Upload file" on left menu of this wiki).

(Note: if you receive an antispam message about your web url, add a space between your hostname and first level domain name).

3) If you are a company: Add your name into the category "Other partners" for your country (or into category Preferred Partners if you are already a Preferred Partner), on the page: List of Dolibarr partners and providers (send a mail to contact@dolibarr.org if page for your country does not exists).

4) Check translation for the language of your country is completed and accurate. If not, this is the next step to work on. See page Translator documentation to know how to fix/submit Dolibarr translation).

5) 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, list of companies type, ...). 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 modified files to contact@dolibarr.org).

6) Take a look at the wikipedia project for your language. If no page exists for Dolibarr project, try to add it. Just cut, paste and translate content of english page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr) into a new page of the wikipedia for your language. If a page already exists, try to complete content to match english page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr) and fix typo/translation errors.

Get a community portal ?

The https://www.dolibarr.org is now able to manage all languages in the same web site. So there is no reason to create more portals about Dolibarr. Publishing news on the official one, in your own language is possible. If your language is not supported, ask contact@dolibarr.org to add it.

It is no more recommended to create your own portal. This creates useless duplicates. However, forum may not exists for your language. In such a case, your can create one, and ask us to add the link on the page https://www.dolibarr.org/forum.php

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 :

Man stands into congress (For example: french community presents Dolibarr into Salon_Solution_Linux_2010, Salon_Solution_Linux_2011, Salon_Solution_Linux_2012).

=> This is the most efficient way to promote Dolibarr !! Because then, you will get Open Source technical guys that will promote it for you.

Organize BarCamp, DevCamp or Dolibarr Day (See index page Category:DevCamps for example of already past devcamps).
Publish news onto local website.
Create social networks groups, promote them and publish news/articles on them.

To help you for tasks of promoting the project, you can use all materials provided by the Dolibarr foundation and available at GitHub repository (Git links available on page https://github.com/DolibarrFoundation/foundation)

You will find kakemono, flyers, logos, business cards, etc, you can translate/reuse.

Things recommended

You are free to animate your community in your own way, but it's suggested to implement the following in order to expand your community.

Translate all the resources you can find from the foundation GIT repository (Git links available on page https://github.com/DolibarrFoundation/foundation), like SVG files for logo creation, rollups or business cards for your language. You can then use them into summits, conferences, forums, trade shows or put them into show rooms or your web site.

This is the two most 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 help boost the adoption of Dolibarr in your country. If you do so (it's one of the most interesting and efficient things to do), please create a page into this wiki with photo (example: Salon_Solution_Linux_2010). Report page into this wiki should be in English but if you host your own report page, with photos, into your language, send us a link (we will add a link at appropriate place into Dolibarr web sites).

Note:

When all things into chapter "Things required" are completed, if you own 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 international Dolibarr foundation. See page Subscribe.

Things allowed

This chapter describes explicit things you can do when you are a community manager of a local community:

Use Dolibarr logo on your web site but use another logo as the trademark of your community.
Use any materials provided by Dolibarr foundation and available into GitHub repository (Git links available on page https://github.com/DolibarrFoundation/foundation). You will find rollups, flyers, guides, logos, templates, etc. You can translate or use them for your need.
Use any other tools of your choice to animate your community (video, wiki, etc...)
Add to any web site related to Dolibarr the same links than the links into the download central page: https://www.dolibarr.org/download/, forum or any other pages of official portal https://www.dolibarr.org
Post any news (in english or in your own language) on official web site, if you have subscribed to the Dolibarr foundation.
Represent Dolibarr into congress, show rooms with no need to ask anything to the Dolibarr foundation.
Create and sells goodies with Dolibarr logo. Revenues are yours. Note that goodies can already by purchase from this web site: https://goodies.dolibarr.org
Drink beers with all Dolibarr friends (but not too much).

Things forbidden

This chapter describes explicit things you can't do when you are a community manager of a local community:

You can't use ads on a Dolibarr local web site that use Dolibarr official logo.
Check that you use correctly the brand name Dolibarr. See the page: Rules to use the brand name "Dolibarr"
If you ask the foundation to publish a news, you can't do it to promote private services. This is what this means: If you are a company with your own services, then description and prices of such services must be on a different web site, with a different name and can't be on a post on www.dolibarr.org or on a community local website. Don't forget that a community portal web pages are the brand of the community project, not a landing page for your business, so a community project and a commercial local web site must remain two different things.

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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.
+This page is a guide line to help local user groups to build their own community around Dolibarr project.
-= Things required =
+=[[File:Service formation.png|52px]] 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:
+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 provided here. If you want to work into an international project, you must also accept rules, and this page is one of this stupid rule (but not so stupid for us):
-) You must be a local foundation or user group or a local company.
+==Prerequisites==
+) Check if a community for your region/country/language already exists. If it does, try to join the existing community instead.
-) Add you company name or your foundation name to the following pages:
+) You must be a local foundation, or group of friends knowing open source software, or a local company, speaking english to be able to exchange with international foundation.
-[[List_of_Dolibarr_users]]
-) ''If you are a company only:'' Add your name into the category "'''Other partners'''" for your country on the page:
+) Create an account onto this wiki. Then login to create a page specific with page name that is your personal name (firstname lastname, not your company or foundation name).
-[[List_of_OpenSource_Software_companies_and_freelancers]]
-) 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 [[Firstname Lastname]] 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 [[Firstname Lastname]] and replace content with your own personal information.
+Fill paragraph "Other information / 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.
-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.
+Also, submit a photo of yourself as a png file from a file that must be named "Firstname Lastname.png" (submit link is link "Upload file" on left menu of this wiki).
-Then, you can make a copy and paste of content of page [[Laurent_Destailleur]] and replace content with your own personal information.
-The goal of this is to have a card inside this wiki, whose goal is to provide information on all Dolibarr actors.
-) The translation for the language of your country should be completed and accurate.
+(Note: if you receive an antispam message about your web url, add a space between your hostname and first level domain name).
-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).
-) The default setup provided by last version of Dolibarr must be 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''').
+) ''If you are a company:'' Add your name into the category "'''Other partners'''" for your country (or into category '''Preferred Partners''' if you are already a Preferred Partner), on the page:
+[https://partners.dolibarr.org List of Dolibarr partners and providers] (send a mail to contact@dolibarr.org if page for your country does not exists).
-) 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.
+) Check translation for the language of your country is completed and accurate.
-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.
+If not, this is the next step to work on. See page [[Translator documentation]] to know how to fix/submit Dolibarr translation).
-) 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).
+) 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, list of companies type, ...). 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 modified files to '''contact@dolibarr.org''').
-) ''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 !).
+) Take a look at the wikipedia project for your language. If no page exists for Dolibarr project, try to add it. Just cut, paste and translate content of english page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr) into a new page of the wikipedia for your language. If a page already exists, try to complete content to match english page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr) and fix typo/translation errors.
+==Get a community portal ?==
+The https://www.dolibarr.org is now able to manage all languages in the same web site.
+So there is no reason to create more portals about Dolibarr. Publishing news on the official one, in your own language is possible. If your language is not supported, ask contact@dolibarr.org to add it.
-Once all this step are done, you can work on next chapter.
+It is no more recommended to create your own portal. This creates useless duplicates.
+However, forum may not exists for your language. In such a case, your can create one, and ask us to add the link on the page https://www.dolibarr.org/forum.php
-= Things recommanded =
+=[[File:Humour.png]] Animate your community=
-This action can be done once all "required action" are complete.
+Once all previous steps are done, you are then free to animate your community like you want.
-) 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 congres, forums, trade show or put it into show rooms.
+Do all actions you want to do in the way you want. This is some ideas :
-) 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, so new partners or customers). When such news appears on a major media, tell us (contact@dolibarr.org).
+*Man stands into congress (For example: french community presents Dolibarr into [[Salon_Solution_Linux_2010]], [[Salon_Solution_Linux_2011]], [[Salon_Solution_Linux_2012]]).
-) It will also be a good thing if you are yourself a member of internationnal Dolibarr foundation. See page [[Subscribe]].
+=> This is the most efficient way to promote Dolibarr !! Because then, you will get Open Source technical guys that will promote it for you.
-) When all things into chapter "Things required" are completed, you may also apply to be a Preferred Partner. See [[Dolibarr Preferred Partner]].
+*Organize BarCamp, DevCamp or [[Dolibarr Days|Dolibarr Day]] (See index page [[:Category:DevCamps]] for example of already past devcamps).
+*Publish news onto local website.
+*Create social networks groups, promote them and publish news/articles on them.
-= Things allowed =
+To help you for tasks of promoting the project, you can use all materials provided by the Dolibarr foundation and available at GitHub repository ({{FoundationGitUrl}})
-* Use Dolibarr logo on your web site
-* Add your own Google Adwords tags (but ads must be limited to 2 by pages).
-* Add links to any other Dolibarr web site (local or international).
-= Things forbidden =
+You will find kakemono, flyers, logos, business cards, etc, you can translate/reuse.
-...
+=[[File:Astuces.png]] Things recommended=
+You are free to animate your community in your own way, but it's suggested to implement the following in order to expand your community.
+*Translate all the resources you can find from the foundation GIT repository ({{FoundationGitUrl}}), like SVG files for logo creation, rollups or business cards for your language. You can then use them into summits, conferences, forums, trade shows or put them into show rooms or your web site.
+This is the two most 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 help boost the adoption of Dolibarr in  your country. If you do so (it's one of the most interesting and efficient things to do), please create a page into this wiki with photo (example: [[Salon_Solution_Linux_2010]]). Report page into this wiki should be in English but if you host your own report page, with photos, into your language, send us a link (we will add a link at appropriate place into Dolibarr web sites).
+Note:
+When all things into chapter "Things required" are completed, if you own 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 international Dolibarr foundation. See page [[Subscribe]].
+=[[File:Road_sign_green.png|20px]] Things allowed=
+This chapter describes explicit things you can do when you are a community manager of a local community:
+*Use Dolibarr logo on your web site but use another logo as the trademark of your community.
+*Use any materials provided by Dolibarr foundation and available into GitHub repository ({{FoundationGitUrl}}). You will find rollups, flyers, guides, logos, templates, etc. You can translate or use them for your need.
+*Use any other tools of your choice to animate your community (video, wiki, etc...)
+*Add to any web site related to Dolibarr the same links than the links into the download central page: https://www.dolibarr.org/download/, forum or any other pages of official portal https://www.dolibarr.org
+*Post any news (in english or in your own language) on official web site, if you have subscribed to the Dolibarr foundation.
+*Represent Dolibarr into congress, show rooms with no need to ask anything to the Dolibarr foundation.
+*Create and sells goodies with Dolibarr logo. Revenues are yours. Note that goodies can already by purchase from this web site: https://goodies.dolibarr.org
+*Drink beers with all Dolibarr friends (but not too much).
+=[[File:Road_sign_red.png|20px]] Things forbidden=
+This chapter describes explicit things you can't do when you are a community manager of a local community:
+*You can't use ads on a Dolibarr local web site that use Dolibarr official logo.
+*Check that you use correctly the brand name Dolibarr. See the page: [[Rules to use the brand name "Dolibarr"]]
+*If you ask the foundation to publish a news, you can't do it to promote private services. This is what this means: If you are a company with your own services, then description and prices of such services must be on a different web site, with a different name and can't be on a post on www.dolibarr.org or on a community local website. Don't forget that a community portal web pages are the brand of the community project, not a landing page for your business, so a community project and a commercial local web site must remain two different things.