[Conference-resources] FOSS4GE 2024 web-page

Tõnis Kärdi tonis.kardi at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 12:15:39 PDT 2023


Hey,

yes I think a meeting (the sooner the better :)) would be good. There's
some steps the Tartu LOC has already taken (hugo over jekyll) but some
points would still be good to discuss (what repos and where, osgeo.org
redirection etc).

All the best,
t;

On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 17:47 Astrid Emde (OSGeo), <astrid_emde at osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> shall we proceed on this topic? As FOSS4G Europe 2024 would like to
> start.
>
> Maybe a virtual meeting would be good to discuss the questions. We also
> could discuss to make regular meetings?
>
> Questions to discuss
> 1. Hugo or Jekyll.
> 2. What do we need for the template? Any ideas for a template?
> 3. Who would like to support the website team?
> 4. Define a location for the repository - maybe something like
> https://github.com/OSGeo/foss4g-website-template (a copy could be used
> for the events repos like https://github.com/OSGeo/foss4g-europe-2023)
> 5. ... more
>
> Shall we use a ticket system to organize the topics we would like to
> work on?
> We already have https://gitea.osgeo.org/gitea/foss4g/resources/issues
>
> There are already some repositories at
> https://gitea.osgeo.org/gitea/foss4g/
>
> See you
>
> Astrid
>
> Am 14.07.2023 23:03 schrieb Sidorela Uku:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm adding my thoughts on this since I told Tonis that I can help with
> > building the website.
> >
> > a)  I agree with Luca about gitea, the repo can be created there and
> > mirrored to github, or vice-versa (created in github mirrored in
> > gitea). Gitea is not planning anytime soon to have gitea pages.
> >
> > b) In my knowledge, one github repo can only be connected with one
> > github pages. So if we have different branches for each year, we can
> > choose only one of those branches to be served as github pages. So the
> > websites for previous years will not be available. Correct me if I am
> > wrong with this.
> >
> > Alternatively you can have the previous years as folders ('2014',
> > '2015') in the same repo and serve them under
> > https://europe.foss4g.org/2015, but this would work in HTML static
> > pages websites.
> >
> > c) And related with the last sentence, I don't have strong opinions on
> > the use of Jekyll or Hugo. Although I have worked more with Jekyll.
> >
> > Would be helpful on finding a nice website template that fits the
> > needs, and doesn't need to create code from scratch for many things,
> > as in case of FOSS4G Prizren website, as Besfort said previously we
> > made many changes to the theme to adopt to the needs, considering that
> > there was a lot of content to be put on the webpage. The theme was
> > fine, but for events with less content.
> >
> > Either way if the theme is adopted the first time, for the next
> > conference will have less work to change everything in the layouts and
> > designs.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Sidorela
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