<br>Shoaib,<br><br>If we go down this path, who else besides you can maintain the website?<br><br>What happens if you are not available to maintain the site due to being hit the proverbial 'bus' (let's hope that doesn't happen!).<br>
<br>Bruce Bannerman<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:foss4g2009-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">foss4g2009-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
> [mailto:<a href="mailto:foss4g2009-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">foss4g2009-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of Shoaib Burq<br>
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2009 11:42 PM<br>
> To: foss4g2009-PRIVATE; foss4g2009<br>
> Subject: [Foss4g2009] foss4g2009 site migration to Staticmatic<br>
><br>
> Over the last few days I have been rewriting the foss4g<br>
> website using Staticmatic. <a href="http://staticmatic.rubyforge.org/" target="_blank">http://staticmatic.rubyforge.org/</a><br>
><br>
> This has several imporatant advantages<br>
><br>
> 1. If we add an item in the sidebars we dont' have to go and<br>
> change the HTML on all the 29 pages by hand.<br>
> 2. we can use different page layouts depending on which page<br>
> we are looking at.<br>
> 3. we don't have to worry about the relative paths to<br>
> resources such as images, css, js.<br>
> 4. all the html code generated by haml templates is perfectly<br>
> aligned 5. It allows for partials which means we can have<br>
> partials for parts of the site that get regularly updated.<br>
> e.g press releases, sponosrs look at<br>
> <a href="http://github.com/sabman/2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/tree/f1fc%0A5330c2c3243c27f33994edbe740376468796/src" target="_blank">http://github.com/sabman/2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/tree/f1fc<br>
5330c2c3243c27f33994edbe740376468796/src</a><br>
> 6. things will be less likely to break<br>
><br>
> This will save anyone working on the site many hours.<br>
><br>
> There is only one drawback (sort of) - person coding the site<br>
> will need to understand staticatic, haml and sass which is<br>
> not necessarily a bad thing - they are both quite elegant and<br>
> worth learning (IMO)<br>
><br>
> So the code is currently on github<br>
> <a href="http://github.com/sabman/2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/" target="_blank">http://github.com/sabman/2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/</a> but if<br>
> Tyler is okay with it I will move it to osgeo svn and then<br>
> you will need to do a fresh checkout from the<br>
> 2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/site/ directory<br>
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