[California] California Chapter Website

[Alex Mandel]

I'm not whole-sale against a more official website (or a better
organized wiki), but I think we should use some sort of simple CMS
rather than hand coding.

There are lots of options, I'll put out there localwiki (from
localwiki.org) might be a fun choice as it has embedded maps and the
developers are locals.

Other options that would be easy to setup: Drupal, Plone, Django-CMS (or
vanilla Django), Wordpress, Trac, Sphinx.

Mediawiki is intentionally not on that list, because we already have
mediawiki.

Mobile 1sts aka Responsive web design is a good idea, we should look to
adapt existing themes for the above mentioned CMS that already handle it
to our desired color/layout.

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/12/2012 05:00 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
> I took a stab at creating a simple chapter web site today. You can
> view the home page here:
> 
> http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/calosgeo/
> 
> The site is designed with just HTML and CSS, and was created using the
> "mobile first" design method. (I've got to fix the navigation in the
> mobile view. It isn't working properly at the moment.)
> 
> I've only created the home page. Most of the links don't work yet.
> 
> I used the OSGeo color scheme. I haven't made or incorporated a
> chapter logo yet, but that should be easy to do. I wanted to get some
> feedback from the other chapter members before I moved forward. If
> there are no strong objections, I'll complete the following tasks:
> 
> 1) Complete missing web pages.
> 2) Fix mobile layout.
> 3) Figure out what to do about a domain name. (I don't want to use
> anything with "osgeo" in the URL until I get approval from the board.)
> 
> I'd like to get one or two paragraph bios for the members page.
> 
> I know we have a wiki, but I think the chapter would benefit from a
> more formal web presence.
> 
> Let me know what you think. I'll wait for some responses before I do
> any more work.
> 
> Landon
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