[Board] Website for OSGeo Code Sprints

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:08:09 -0300
Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

> Oops, a better example:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:C_Tribe_Code_Sprint  There are
> also Bolsena categories, QGIS, etc.  So the admin of this new proposed
> structure can find them all.  A single web page promoting our sprints
> is definitely needed.

I enthusiastically agree! 
Daniel, thanks for taking the lead on this. I can help you collecting
links to sprints scattered around the interwebs. This central
information source will also help keeping the Events section of
osgeo.org up-to-date. 

> -jeff

Best,
Anne

> 
> On 2013-10-10 2:05 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



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