[Board] [EXTERNAL] Website for OSGeo Code Sprints

[Smith, Michael ERDC-RDE-CRREL-NH]

I like this. Good plan Daniel.

Mike

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Michael Smith

Remote Sensing/GIS Center
US Army Corps of Engineers



On 10/10/13  12:05 PM, "Daniel Morissette" <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
wrote:

>Hi Board, and TOSprint list members,
>
>As we organize the Vienna Code Sprint (March 2014), we realized the need
>for a proper website for the sprint to give some visibility to the
>sponsors in a home that looks better than a raw wiki page.
>
>We discussed this with Stephan who is organizing the Vienna sprint and
>they setup a simple website for the sprint where the event summary and
>the sponsors can be presented, and a link to the wiki is provided for
>people to sign up, etc.
>
>What I would like to suggest is that we start placing websites for our
>code sprints, under a common umbrella which is easy to find by members
>of the community. A few simple steps are involved, and I'd take the lead
>on them:
>
>1- Setup http://sprint.osgeo.org/ as a landing page to list current and
>past sprints, similar to the current foss4g.org landing page listing
>current and past foss4g's
>
>2- Then use subdomains for each sprint's website as we do for FOSS4G
>each year. The Vienna 2014 sprint URL would be
>http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/ (the actual website setup by Stephan
>will be hosted on github, so no hosting requirements are involved, just
>a DNS entry pointing to it)
>
>3- If you get the idea, then we could also eventually invite other OSGeo
>sprints to join under the same umbrella, e.g.
>bolsena2014.sprint.osgeo.org, and so on for GRASS and QGIS sprints, etc.
>
>I don't think we need a formal motion of the board for this, so I am
>mostly sending this as an FYI expressing my interest to move forward
>with this proposal unless I hear objections or suggestions of better
>alternatives.
>
>Thanks
>
>-- 
>Daniel Morissette
>http://www.mapgears.com/
>Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
>
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