[Board] Website for OSGeo Code Sprints

[Jeff McKenna]

Excellent! A great way to promote our sprints.  I recently went through
all our sprint wiki pages and created new categories for C-sprints and
others so they are nicely linked all together
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints), but that work isn't
wasted as now they can be easily found for this new structure proposed.
 Love it.

-jeff


On 2013-10-10 1:05 PM, Daniel Morissette 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
>