[geomoose-psc] GeoMoose.org Cleanup

Jim Klassen klassen.js at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 15:54:33 PST 2018


I've been busy cleaning up geomoose.org as can be seen here [1].  The
changes so far have generally been consistency, formatting, and some
minor re-wording.

However, I have also come across some changes I would like to make,
but feel they are more significant and should be run past the list
first.

* The Gallery:
  https://www.geomoose.org/info/gallery.html
 
  Appears to only be referenced from a link at the end of the front page.

  Has bad links and links to sites that are no longer GeoMoose based.
  We have had issues keeping this page up to date in the past.  I
  wonder if we wouldn't be better off just getting rid of it.

  Any objections?

* FAQ Page:
  https://www.geomoose.org/faq.html
 
  The "Why GeoMoose?" question has some nice prose in it but it is
  also significantly out of date (it references 2.6).  I feel that it
  also duplicates the function of the paragraph under "Welcome to
  GeoMoose" on the front page.

  I feel it should go.  Objections?

* Support Page:

  The FAQ questions "Can I get support" and "How do I get a bug fixed"
  feel to me like they should be the basis for a top level support
  page.  These seem like important topics and I don't think people
  think to look for them on the FAQ page.

  I propose we separate them out to their own support page and replace
  the FAQ link in the header with a link to this new support page.
  The link to the FAQ would remain as a green button on the front
  page.

* Commercial Support:
  https://www.geomoose.org/info/commercial_support.html

  Currently linked only from the FAQ page (or under my proposal would
  be linked under the new Support page).

  If we go ahead with GeoMoose.com, GeoMoose.com might take the place
  of the Commercial Support page on GeoMoose.org.

  If we don't, we need to at a minimum give this page a once over.
  The links back to OSGeo are broken and the companies list should
  probably be refreshed.

* Demos

  Back at the end of last year, I created a pull request for
  geomoose.org to add a jump page for the various demos instead of
  having only the current development branch available as the demo
  link.  We still host the 2.9 demo and 3.x has the desktop demo and a
  more beta quality mobile demo. The objection to the PR at the time
  was that the mobile demo wasn't polished enough yet.  I would
  suggest, that since that is still true, we mark the mobile demo as a
  beta for now.

  My thoughts are we should expose these other options to site
  visitors.

  If we are intent on keeping the Gallery, I'd consider moving it to a
  section of this jump page under our hosted demos.  (But only if we
  knew the sites we link to are willing to be listed and will be well
  maintained examples of GeoMoose in the wild.)

* Missing items:

  A features list???

  A GeoMoose 3.x contributors guide.  (The existing guide is very 2.x
  centric).  This could also live on https://geomoose.github.io/gm3/.
  There is a GM 3 style guide, but we should have something talking
  about submitting Ask on the List, submit a Pull Request, public
  email declaring contributions are under GeoMoose (MIT) license and
  they are authorized to declare that, etc.

[1] https://github.com/geomoose/geomoose-website/compare/4541168...615234f



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