<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span class=""><span>Hi All,<br><br>Plans to recreate the current OSGeo.org website in a newer version of the Drupal content management system are on the wiki here:<br></span></span></div><div><span class=""><span><span class=""><span><br></span></span></span></span> <span class=""><span><span class=""><span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo.org_Web_Site_-_2016_Barn_Raising">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo.org_Web_Site_-_2016_Barn_Raising</a><br><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class=""><span><span class=""><span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class=""><span><span class=""><span>This topic is also on the agenda for this week's OSGeo board meeting (Thursday):<br></span></span></span></span> agenda: <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_<span class=""><span class="">2015-12-10</span></span></a><br>
time: <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=12&day=10&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=12&day=10&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC</a></div><div><span class=""><span><span class=""><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><span class=""><span><span class=""><span>Please send replies to the message to </span></span></span></span><span class=""><span><span class=""><span><b>discuss</b><b>@<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org">lists.osgeo.org</a></b> and not to the other lists included on this message to prevent the discussion from being split across the discuss, board, sac and webcom lists!</span></span></span></span><br><br></div><div>Many thanks,<br><br></div>Ian<br><br></div>P.S. I anticipate that we may not all agree that a manual migration to Drupal 8 is the absolute optimal solution --- but please bear in mind that possible upgrades have been in discussion since 2007... We're looking for a solution that can be easily implemented and meets the main requirements (including removing ad hoc custom PHP and also ensuring solid multilingual support).<br><div><br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Ian,<br>
<br>
Thanks for proposing this. I agree, we need a "not invented here"<br>
approach, to make this possible. It is sure time for this upgrade. I<br>
have added your proposal to the next board meeting agenda, Ian could you<br>
also attend that IRC meeting, to help guide this topic? See the exact<br>
time at the top of this page:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10</a><br>
<br>
I would also like to see this plan (including the nodes transferred) on<br>
the OSGeo wiki. Could you also start drafting these plans on the OSGeo<br>
wiki, and share that link with everyone?<br>
<br>
One big part of this upgrade is the Service Providers page<br>
(<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile</a>), which I believe is made up on<br>
custom PHP. Please include your plans for this in the wiki (or a section<br>
on the wiki for this so we can get proposals/ideas for how to improve this<br>
search tool.<br>
<br>
We will of course need to work closely with the SAC committee on this, and<br>
we can share these wiki plans with them, for their approval.<br>
<br>
Thanks again for pushing this.<br>
<br>
-jeff<br>
<span class=""><br>
<br>
> Hi All,<br>
><br>
> With the recent release of Drupal 8, I'd like to suggest we hold a barn<br>
> raising event for recreating and re-hosting the main <a href="http://osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">osgeo.org</a> website.<br>
><br>
> Why continue with Drupal?<br>
><br>
> - We need a proven CMS that is easy for all users and doesn't require lots<br>
> of work to maintain.<br>
> -Drupal 8 was developed to put multilingual capabilities first, a core<br>
> requirement for OSGeo.<br>
> - v8 includes responsive themes designed for mobiles and tablets and is<br>
> engineered to be fast by default.<br>
> - Unlike the OSGeo projects, we need a "not invented here" approach to the<br>
> website where we aim to write little or no code ourselves.<br>
><br>
> How?<br>
><br>
> - The current site has around 1600 nodes. If, for example, 16 people took<br>
> responsibility for 100 nodes each we could manually copy content without<br>
> worrying about automating the migration... therefore no risk of<br>
> transferring anything that's not public, or of copying across old embedded<br>
> PHP code.<br>
> - A shared google spreadsheet would record which nodes had been<br>
</span>> transferred. We'd transfer newer nodes first and *create the correct links<br>
> among the translated content*.<br>
<span class="">> - The sponsor pages could be created as a custom content type and<br>
> displayed<br>
> using built-in drupal views, allowing sorting, searching etc without any<br>
> custom PHP.<br>
> - SAC could install a vanilla Drupal 8 on a new server and get inital LDAP<br>
> support working. Webcom would take responsibility for content, theming<br>
> etc.<br>
> and discussions via the webcom mailing list.<br>
> - The board would decide when to transfer to new site.<br>
><br>
> Principals<br>
> - Avoid writing any custom code (which has prevented upgrades in the past)<br>
> - Install minimal contributor modules, ensure any that are used are likely<br>
> to be maintained long term, e.g. ldap<br>
</span>> <<a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/ldap" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.drupal.org/project/ldap</a>><br>
<span class="">> module.<br>
><br>
> Is this something that could be discussed at the next board meeting?<br>
><br>
> Ian<br>
><br>
> P.S. The following link provides a good summary of features in Drupal 8:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.acquia.com/sites/default/files/library/attachment/ultimate-guide-drupal-8v3.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.acquia.com/sites/default/files/library/attachment/ultimate-guide-drupal-8v3.pdf</a><br>
<br>
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