I am pleased to announce that our website, http://ubuntu-ph.org/ , is finally up! It took us almost a year before we got it up and running - but we did it!

I've spent 2 evenings slaving over getting the 5.x data migrated to Drupal 6.13, but we got it intact and working - including user credentials and content, albeit a few broken links. So please treat this site as a work in progress while we iron out the few known bugs.

Added Features:

1) OpenID Access
I'm a huge fan of OpenID so we've enabled this module. There's no longer a need to register on the site itself, use your Launchpad login instead. Users wanting an account should sign in using your Launchpad identity. And those with existing user account is encouraged to link your Launchpad (or any OpenID) identity to your account.

2) Ubuntu LoCo Theme
We've adopted the official LoCo theme for Drupal 6.x and branched it for our use. I plan on heavily modifying it to suit our local needs. Administrators in our Launchpad team would've received notice regarding this matter.

Known Bugs:

1) Ubuntu-PH.org Domain fixed
At the moment, Canonical's working on the ticket I sent to point the domain to the current host. As a workaround, you can access the site by appending the following line on your /etc/hosts.
195.242.99.184 ubuntu-ph.org

2) Temporary Hosting fixed
The domain and the site itself is owned by the Ubuntu-PH community, but the host it's on isn't. This is a temporary measure while looking for a more permanent host. This way, we can freely give away full ftp/vps access to site administrators.
Note: I'm giving the account to the community.

3) Missing 2007-2009 Events and Articles
Since our website was down from 2007, there are no recorded articles available. I'll backtrack our activities and post them during my free time.

4) Theme Rendering Problem on Opera
I'll be spending a good part of my free time double-checking the CSS. Please bear with us while we work on it.

5) Broken Links on a couple of Articles
While I managed to backup the MySQL data, I failed to backup the file directory. Any links to any files saved on the said directory is currently broken. I'll either remove said links or recreate them if I can find them.

6) Missing Avatars
Avatars are saved on the file directory, since we've lost them, the current workaround is for individuals to re-upload them back.

Fixes and Updates as of Aug. 10, 2009

• Clean URL enabled, .htaccess and .htpasswd recently approved by host
• Domain enabled and pointed to our host, www prefix was also CNAME'd, big big big thanks to Matthias
• Gravatars module will be added and enabled within the week, just need to do further testing to make sure it doesn't break anything
• Theme updated on the sandbox, development on a "Jaunty Dark Theme" started
• Links to external sites updated
• Included link to Freenode web chat app that'll auto-join #ubuntu-ph, thanks to Loell for pointing this out