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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.
 
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.
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== Create the community portal ==
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== Get a community portal ? ==
Once all prerequisites are ok, first step is to create a portal for the couple country/language you plan to animate.
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The www.dolibarr.org is now able to manage all languages in same web site. If your language is not supported, ask contact@dolibarr.org to add it.
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0) Tell contact@dolibarr.org you plan to create a community with domain name you want to use. The foundation will buy it and manage DNS to point to your server (you must host and administer the server like you want). This is a new requirement for all communities starting after january 2014. From this date, the foundation keeps the control of all Dolibarr DNS name.
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It is no more recommended to create your own portal. This creates useless duplicates.
 
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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
1) Create a portal with a CMS
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Now, you can create a dedicated web site for your country called the "Dolibarr XXX portal" where XXX is your country. You can :
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* use the 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, if using Joomla, you will be able to reuse the same template than dolibarr.org portal. Joomla template for Joomla 1.5.* is available into GIT repository: {{FoundationGitUrl}} (into dir "joomla").
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* or you can ask the Dolibarr foundation (confirm us by email to contact@dolibarr.org) to clone the dolibarr.org for your language and provide you an administrator access to become the community manager of the portal.
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2a) Main name of web site must be "'''Dolibarr, Country name'''".
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The main "visible" title of your web site must be "Dolibarr". Logo used to show this must match the logo found on dolibarr.org (except if it match too mutch an already registered trademark in your country). Also it MUST includes the name of the country/community under it. See examples from dolibarr.fr, dolibarr.gr, dolibarr.it, dolibarr.es...
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Having a logo showing "Dolibarr TheCountry", is a way to say customer that it's not another different project with same name, but the same, just declined for "TheCountry". However, it's not enough, and experience shows that web site that does not comply with dolibarr.org skin, are just web sites discarded by users, journalists, and rest of community. See next chapter to solve this.
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Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if it uses a too different logo (just because we know this is against productive for you and project).
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2b) Main "visible" description of web site mus present Dolibarr in few words.
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The first visible thing a visitor may notice when reaching home page of community portal is to have a small description to describe what is Dolibarr ERP CRM. It must show that it is:
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* An Open-Source project.
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* Free to download and use.
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* Works on a web server.
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See for example section "Que es Dolibarr" of dolibarr.es, or "first paragraph" into dolibarr.fr, dolibarr.gr.
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3) Put flags to other communities
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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.
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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).
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Curently flags must be provided for France: dolibarr.fr, Spain: dolibarr.es, Italy; dolibarr.it, Greece: dolibarr.gr, Germany: dolibarr.de
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4a) Your portal MUST provide a demo area (and not exlusively your service if this demo is your Cloud service)
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40% of visitors coming on home page goes then onto the demo link. So you MUST have a link to a demo. If you don't plan to provide it, or you can't, just link to https://demo.dolibarr.org. An entry page "demo" or "try it" must be visible into home page with such link. Links can also be links to your own Cloud hosting system to provide demo, but check next point is ok too.
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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:
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* 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.
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* 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).
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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).
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Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google AdWords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied (just because we know a portal without a demo link or with a too important and exclusive  "commercial look" scares visitor so is a waste of time).
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5) Your portal SHOULD share a common look
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Having too many different Dolibarr, with different looks create a threat for customers, thinking your web site is a "parallel" different project. So try to avoid this, it deserve your goal and users will not trust your web site. So try to keep same skin (colors) and same entries into horizontal menu than dolibarr.org.
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Also, the Dolibarr foundation MAY not pay for Google AdWords campaigns to promote your web site if it uses a too different look. The foundation board will decide if look is enough compliant or not to fund Google AdWords campaigns using the Dolibarr foundation money.
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6) Put links to social networks
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If you don't plan to animate a dedicated social networks, add, on front page of your portal web site, links to official (english) Dolibarr social Networks. You will find list of links on page [[FAQ How to be informed on news about Dolibarr project ?]]. Using a box "Social Networks" like the one found on https://www.dolibarr.org is a good thing. If you want to animate your own local social Networks, you can replace international links with yours, but try to always keep a link at least for "Facebook", "Twitter" and "Google+" (use links for english social networks available onto dolibarr.org if you don't cover them for your language).
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Some countries may need to use other social networks than occidental one (like China with Weibo or QQ).
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The Dolibarr foundation will also edit the dolibarr.org portal to add link of your web site into "local communities" box.
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But if you create/animate your own social networks, you must check that you are not the only owner of social network. Goal is to be sure that the network the community invest on, will not be lost if something happen to you (we don't hope so, but we must be secured). For Facebook, Google+ you can add the account of a member of the Dolibarr board team (https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Office_and_Board_Members#Members_of_Board). For other social Networks, you can create an account for us too and send us credential.
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7) Your portal MUST provide a forum or link to external forum
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If you don't plan to animate a dedicated forum (it is better having no forum than having a forum you don't answer), you must add a link to another existing forum:
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* If a forum exists for your language animated by a community of another country, add a link to this one.
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* If no forum exists on other portal for your language, add a link to official (english) Dolibarr forum (https://www.dolibarr.org/forum) with text "Forum (english only)".
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8) Include the foundation Google Analytics tag
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Add a google analytics tag into all of your portal pages. Then add the dolibarr foundation email (contact@dolibarr.org) to be allowed to have read only access on Google analytics views or setup your Google analytics to send monthly reports to the foundation Google analytics account (contact@dolibarr.org).
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Note: To share a readonly access to statistics of a site, go onto home statistics page of this site into google analytics, then click onto the link "Admin" on top bar on the left. Then click on tab "Users" and add contact@dolibarr.org as a new user.
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'''Conclusion:'''
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Let us know by email to '''contact@dolibarr.org''' at which step you are (Note: sending us email more frequently to show us where you are is better).
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We will check your online site, and if the foundation owns the TLD domain dolibarr.xx for your country, we will make (if all previous steps are ok) a redirected for the domain name to your web site. If domain name for your country is not owned by foundation yet, you can buy it by yourself. If domain is already owned by someone else, the foundation can provide you a domain like xxx.dolibarr.org with xx as your country code.
      
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