[Board] Website for OSGeo Code Sprints

[Markus Neteler]

Hi all,

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> Hi Board, and TOSprint list members,
>
> As we organize the Vienna Code Sprint (March 2014), we realized the need for
> a proper website for the sprint to give some visibility to the sponsors in a
> home that looks better than a raw wiki page.
>
> We discussed this with Stephan who is organizing the Vienna sprint and they
> setup a simple website for the sprint where the event summary and the
> sponsors can be presented, and a link to the wiki is provided for people to
> sign up, etc.
>
> What I would like to suggest is that we start placing websites for our code
> sprints, under a common umbrella which is easy to find by members of the
> community. A few simple steps are involved, and I'd take the lead on them:
>
> 1- Setup http://sprint.osgeo.org/ as a landing page to list current and past
> sprints, similar to the current foss4g.org landing page listing current and
> past foss4g's

Yes! We should consider to even set up the pages for the previous
sprints to show that it is an established way of thinking and
developing.

> 2- Then use subdomains for each sprint's website as we do for FOSS4G each
> year. The Vienna 2014 sprint URL would be
> http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/ (the actual website setup by Stephan
> will be hosted on github, so no hosting requirements are involved, just a
> DNS entry pointing to it)

+1

> 3- If you get the idea, then we could also eventually invite other OSGeo
> sprints to join under the same umbrella, e.g. bolsena2014.sprint.osgeo.org,
> and so on for GRASS and QGIS sprints, etc.

+1 (will be forthcoming for sure)

one issue is how to handle multiple sprints in one year while avoiding
too long names?
Would this be ok?

http://grass2013genova.sprint.osgeo.org/
http://grass2013prague.sprint.osgeo.org/

> I don't think we need a formal motion of the board for this, so I am mostly
> sending this as an FYI expressing my interest to move forward with this
> proposal unless I hear objections or suggestions of better alternatives.


Excellent!

Markus