<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Arnulf, Daniel,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm happy to take on a more active role, I've promised to do a test deployment of Drupal 8 [1]</div><div>(the focus of this D8 release is even better multilingual support - Drupal already leads the field in this area)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Transifex has been suggested, both for OSGeo Live and for translations on the main site [2]</div><div class="gmail_extra">Pootle [3] has been mentioned a couple of times in the past few years, and was recently dropped into the mix again on the webcom mailing list - I've no idea about Pootle and haven't looked at it yet.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Finally, Alex suggested that we may be better off with a Django site - I've not read about internationalization in Django, but here's a relevant link [4].</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We're short of resources to evaluate all options extensively, my feeling at the moment is to see how the D8 evaluation goes and then decide whether to pursue it - or we can make a final decision to leave Drupal behind.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm a bit reluctant to hack the old Drupal site to workaround <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/202" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/202</a> when the time would be better spent working on a properly engineered migration, but if the D8 evaluation fails then I'm happy to invest some energy to get a reasonable fix for #202.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Frank's given me access to the new VM to evaluate a possible migration - and there'll be sufficient time over the holiday season - but a remit from the board to pursue this (in the order suggested above) would really help before committing the necessary time to this.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ian<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[1] <a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Drupal-8-td5080183.html" target="_blank">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Drupal-8-td5080183.html</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">[2] <a href="https://www.transifex.com/" target="_blank">https://www.transifex.com/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra">[3] <a href="http://pootle.translatehouse.org/" target="_blank">http://pootle.translatehouse.org/</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">
[4] <a href="http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter19.html" target="_blank">http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter19.html</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Arnulf Christl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net" target="_blank">arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Daniel,<br>
this is only a quick fix and should be replaced by something more<br>
sustainable. If you really want to maintain these events they would have<br>
to be entered in all languages we support (thanks to the dead old Drupal<br>
version we have there seems to be no quick fix).<br>
<br>
Plus News is already a bottleneck...<br>
<br>
The longer I see the trouble we have with the web site the more I think<br>
the Wiki is the better place for this type of stuff.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Arnulf<br>
<br>
PS: Changed from Discuss to Your Eyes Only + SAC. Maybe somebody gets<br>
enthusiastic and takes on the job, I don't want to quench any thirst for<br>
volunteer work...<br>
<br>
There are also tickets associated with this:<br>
<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/202" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/202</a><br>
<br>
Opened 6 years ago. Gulp!<br>
<br>
Maybe we really should put some effort into reviving WebCom and giving<br>
it broader remit. The current OSGeo web site is anti-marketing. I mean<br>
we are supposed to be tech gods, right?<br>
<br>
On 30.10.2013 18:15, Daniel Morissette wrote:<br>
> Dear OSGeo Community (CC: <a href="mailto:news_item@osgeo.org" target="_blank">news_item@osgeo.org</a>),<br>
><br>
> The OSGeo upcoming events list badly needs love, it is essentially empty:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/events" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/events</a><br>
><br>
> It would be great if we collectively could adopt a more proactive<br>
> approach to keeping this list up to date.<br>
><br>
> For now, here are a few events I could think of, could<br>
> <a href="mailto:news_item@osgeo.org" target="_blank">news_item@osgeo.org</a> please add them to the list:<br>
><br>
> - FOSS4G 2014, Portland, Sept 8-13, 2014, <a href="http://2014.foss4g.org/" target="_blank">http://2014.foss4g.org/</a><br>
><br>
> - Vienna Code Sprint, March 24-28 2014, <a href="http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/" target="_blank">http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/</a><br>
><br>
> - LocationTech Tour, Nov. 4 to 14, 2013, <a href="http://tour.locationtech.org/" target="_blank">http://tour.locationtech.org/</a><br>
><br>
> - FOSS4G-Europe, summer 2014??, <a href="http://foss4g-e.org/" target="_blank">http://foss4g-e.org/</a><br>
><br>
> - FOSSGIS 2014, March 19-21, 2014, <a href="http://www.fossgis.de/" target="_blank">http://www.fossgis.de/</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Other event organizers and community members, please forward your<br>
> OSGeo-related events info to <a href="mailto:news_item@osgeo.org" target="_blank">news_item@osgeo.org</a><br>
><br>
> Thanks to all<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
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