[Board] remaining meeting agenda items

[Michael Smith]

+1 to motion to revive webcom and to go forward with redeveloping the osgeo
drupal site.

Mike

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Michael Smith
OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
treasurer at osgeo.org

From:  Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Ian Edwards
<iedwards.pub at gmail.com>
Date:  Friday, December 11, 2015 at 5:47 PM
To:  OSGeo-Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject:  Re: [Board] remaining meeting agenda items

> Hi Board
> 
> Picking up on the agenda item to redevelop the osgeo.org <http://osgeo.org>
> drupal instance, I'd like to propose a motion that would give me the remit to
> lead the migration away from the old drupal 5 site, and to attract new active
> members to the committee.  I've been a member of webcom for several years.  I
> nearly led the redevelopment back in 2013 (see:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGeo.org_Web_Site_-_2016_Barn_Raising&
> action=history ), but at that time I didn't have the mandate, and also if we'd
> developed in drupal 7 at that time we would have needed to rely on contributed
> modules for multilingual support instead of being able to rely entirely on
> drupal core.
>  
> Reviving webcom is the simplest option (because it already exists), and I
> believe we can build a strong team that can continue to look after website
> content long after the redevelopment (including getting interest in, and
> managing, regular translation of content, like news items, into a host of
> different languages).
> 
> I think webcom can play an important role in helping to attract sponsors to
> OSGeo, especially as we draw more new and international users regularly to the
> site, and that members can also take on some of the less technical
> administrative tasks that SAC currently have to pick up (many volunteers may
> be too intimidated to get involved with SAC if they are not very technical).
> 
> Ian
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ian
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We did not manage to make it through yesterday's agenda items
>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10#Agenda>  - should we
>> set up an email thread for each one?
>> 
>> I would also like to proposal Jan 7th for our next board meeting:
>> 
>> - 
>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2016&month=1&day=7&
>> hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC
>> 
>> We may also wish to set a google hangout time a couple days prior to go over
>> any discussion item that have not been sorted out on email.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>> 
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