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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.
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.
Then, you can make a copy and paste of content of page [[Firstname Lastname]] and replace content with your own personal information.
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Fill paragraph "Other informations / Autres informations / Otra información" to tell what you did or plan to do for Dolibarr.
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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.
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.
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.
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(Note: if you receive an antispam message about your web url, add a space between your hostname and first level domain name).
(Note: if you receive an antispam message about your web url, add a space between your hostname and first level domain name).
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4) ''If you are a company:'' Add your name into the category "'''Other partners'''" for your country on the page:
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4) ''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).
[[List of Dolibarr partners and providers]] (send a mail to contact@dolibarr.org if page for your country does not exists).
5) Check translation for the language of your country is completed and accurate.
5) Check translation for the language of your country is completed and accurate.
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If not, this is the next step to work on. See page [[Translator documentation]] to know how to fix Dolibarr translation language files using Transifex online system).
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If not, this is the next step to work on. See page [[Translator documentation]] to know how to fix/submit Dolibarr translation language files).
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 modified files to '''contact@dolibarr.org''').
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 modified files to '''contact@dolibarr.org''').
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7) 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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr) into a new page of wikipedia for your language. If a page already exists, try to complete content to match english page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr) and fix typo/translation errors.
7) 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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr) into a new page of wikipedia for your language. If a page already exists, try to complete content to match english page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr) and fix typo/translation errors.
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8) 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, 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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9) The logo used on your web portal must match the logo found on dolibarr.org except it must includes the name of the country/community under it. For example, for France, logo should contains France under it, like found into http://www.dolibarr.fr
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== Create the community portal ==
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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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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 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, 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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2) Use a logo that show your country
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The logo used on your web portal must match the logo found on dolibarr.org except it must includes the name of the country/community under it. For example, for France, logo should contains France under it, like found into http://www.dolibarr.fr
Having a logo showing "Dolibarr TheCountry", is a way to say customer 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.
Having a logo showing "Dolibarr TheCountry", is a way to say customer 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.
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).
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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10) 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). 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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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 http://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.
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 solution, 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 solution, and we know that not doing this is a a marketing error making everybody waste its time).
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11) Your portal must provide a demo area.
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4) Your portal MUST provide a demo area.
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If you offer a commercial hosting solution, you must show, onto same page, both links to your commercial solution and link to a free shared online demo. Also links to your commercial solution must point to another page than the demo page and prices must appears only on this second page, not on main demo page.
If you offer a commercial hosting solution, you must show, onto same page, both links to your commercial solution and link to a free shared online demo. Also links to your commercial solution must point to another page than the demo page and prices must appears only on this second page, not on main demo page.
Just take a look at page used on dolibarr.org to see how it must be: http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo
Just take a look at page used on dolibarr.org to see how it must be: http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo
Goal 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 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 working like this is a waste of time).
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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 is a waste of time).
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5) Your portal SHOULD share a common look
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12) 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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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.
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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 found Google AdWords campaigns using the Dolibarr foundation.
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13) 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 http://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 english links if you don't covers them for your language).
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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 http://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).
The Dolibarr foundation will also edit the dolibarr.org portal to add link of your web site into "local communities" box.
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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14) If you don't plan to animate a dedicated forum (it is better having no forum than having a forum you don't answer), add a link to official (english) Dolibarr forum (http://dolibarr.org/forum) with text "Forum (english only)".
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* If no forum exists on other portal for your language, add a link to official (english) Dolibarr forum (http://dolibarr.org/forum) with text "Forum (english only)".
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Add a google analytics tag into all of your portal pages. Then add the dolibarr foundation email (assodolibarr@gmail.com) 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 (assodolibarr@gmail.com).
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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 assodolibarr@gmail.com as a new user.
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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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15) Add a google analytics tag into all of your portal pages. Then add the dolibarr foundation email (assodolibarr@gmail.com) 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 (assodolibarr@gmail.com).
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== Animate your community ==
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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 linke "Admin" on top bar on the left. Then click on tab "Users" and add assodolibarr@gmail.com as a new user.
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16) ''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 !).
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1) ''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 !).
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17) Once all steps are done, this means you are ready to animate your community (see next chapter).
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2) Once all steps are done, this means you are ready to animate your community (see next chapter).
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Let us know by email to '''contact@dolibarr.org''' (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 domaine 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 xx.dolibarr.org with xx as your country code.
= [[File:Humour.png]] Animate your community =
= [[File:Humour.png]] Animate your community =