[SAC] Open Conference Systems

[Alex Mandel]

On 10/07/2012 02:09 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> Concerning OCS: My good old inbox knows a lot :)
>>
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2007-October/000410.html
> 
>  So it looks like it was set up in 2007 and used for 2008 FOSS4G, and
> there's a few boilerplate pages for 2009 FOSS4G but the beef of that
> conference is elsewhere on another system.
> 
> I suspect the version of OCS is a bit behind the times. I've done an
> install of OCS recently and it was straightforward. I'd be less
> confident in doing an upgrade and expecting the existing conferences
> to still work though.
> 
> I'm willing to either a) install a new OCS instance if given shell
> access to a linux server, or b) try to upgrade the current OCS on the
> existing server, or c) set up a 2013 conference site on the current
> OCS if given the right management permissions on the OCS there.
> 
> Barry

I think a fresh install in a separate directory should be a safe
approach. That way we can always try migrating the old site, but don't
really have to worry about disturbing it (might be good to convert it to
a static site anyways using httrack etc).

Let's get you permissions on Webextra.

Thanks,
Alex