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[Fenoy Gerald]

Hello all,
I think this is an important topic and we should think of updating the www.osgeo.org web site.

From my point of view we have a lot of material available in the wiki format, let say the most recent/up-to-date content is in this form. We have all the users subscribed there already they know how to fill or create the content they want.
Nevertheless, I don’t think that it is a good idea to use the wiki design for the www.osgeo.org.
So we should probably think of a solution "in-the-middle", for instance a solution which is able to transform the wiki pages content in well designed web pages.
We do something like this for the ZOO-Project, Frog and FOSS4G-FR web sites for instance, but using the Trac System as a backend rather than mediawiki.

Despite what will be the decision on how to change or update the web site, I think that it is also important that we have some design for integrating the content in the chosen content management system afterward. 
We may expect contributions of the community for this. Starting by a « call for the next OSGeo design » then a vote to elect the new design can be a good way to go.

Obviously, it may be difficult to run the call for design without having any clear plan for handling the web site...

Best regards,

Le 2 oct. 2014 à 14:17, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> a écrit :

> To be honest, I wonder if we should just blow up our Drupal site.  Live off the wiki.  osgeo.org is a black box, setup in 2006 and mostly not touched for more than 5 years.
> 
> Another huge topic we need to deal with.  Any champions?
> 
> So, for now we edit two systems.
> 
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 2014-10-02 9:01 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>> Yes indeed, I’m not in favour of having two lists and having to keep them in sync.
>> 
>> Bart
>> 
>> On 02 Oct 2014, at 13:59, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Bart,
>>> 
>>> I think Jachym recently gave the wiki some love (at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contacts#Software_Projects) and I gave osgeo.org some love (at http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html).  Which was nice to have the help.
>>> 
>>> There could be confusing differences I am sure.
>>> 
>>> If that is what you mean??
>>> 
>>> -jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2014-10-02 8:55 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>>>> Hey Jeff,
>>>> 
>>>> btw, why are there two pages on the Wiki with this info?
>>>> 
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contacts#Software_Projects
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Bart
>>>> 
>>>> On 02 Oct 2014, at 13:52, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Jachym,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I want to thank both you and Jody for pushing for this list, this will be really useful.  In my opinion I believe we should auto-subscribe all project officers[1], and then send the first message describing the purpose of the list (also explaining the reason for the auto-subscribe).  I could also see this as an easy way for the SAC chair to contact all project leaders about system issues (downtimes/transition requests etc.), hopefully this use case fits into your vision for this list.
>>>>> 
>>>>> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> -jeff
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2014-10-02 6:48 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> since there are so many mailing lists on our server, I think, another
>>>>>> one does not harm. I would like to invite you, especially OSGeo
>>>>>> projects contact points and members of the PSCs of OSGeo projects, to
>>>>>> join the
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> projects at lists.osgeo dot org
>>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/projects
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> mailng list. The topics discussed there should be technical issues,
>>>>>> related to our projects. I assume low traffic list.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Reason for that: I think it makes sense to have one contact point for
>>>>>> all the projects. Not only for me, as secretary, but also for new
>>>>>> coming projects and people interested in the topic. For Local
>>>>>> Chapters, this works IMHO quite well.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for joining
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jachym
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