[California] California Chapter Website

[Landon Blake]

Alex:

Thanks for your comments.

You wrote: "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."

I hand code all my web sites, and it is the method I prefer. It seems
to be the simplest technique, and the most flexible. I do use
Wordpress, and it wouldn't be hard to set up a chapter site using that
platform. However, I only want to do that if other chapter members
think they will be actively contributing content to the web site. If
I'm the person doing most of the heavy lifting, I'd like to stick with
my system for web development.

Perhaps it is worth a short discussion on the merits of having a more
formal web site. I personally think there are benefits to this
approach to managing our web presence. In my mind a wiki is more of a
collaborative documentation tool, and not really a formal web
presence.

However, I'm just one person. :]

I'm willing to put maintain and host a chapter website. If it makes it
easier for others to participate, and they plan on helping, I can set
something up on Wordpress.

I'll wait another day or two for some more comments before I move forward.

Landon

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> 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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