[Board] OSGeoeb-Site issues

Dirk Frigne dirk.frigne at geosparc.com
Wed Sep 14 03:02:25 PDT 2016


Hi Ian,

Thank you for all the work you did as the chair of Webcom. Nothing wrong
with paid work! I fully understand and I appreciate all of your other
contributions, to the projects and to the OSGeo community.

Dirk

On 2016-09-14 11:42, Ian Edwards wrote:
> Hi board,
> 
> I've decided to step down as chair of webcom. My original intention was
> to rebuild the site with full multilingual capabilities using Drupal 8. 
> This is not an especially difficult task, but it is too big to take on
> in voluntary time (to do it right) and I've had to focus on paid work
> for family reasons.
> 
> Webcom is currently a bit more active than it has been in recent years
> with a few more recent users now having admin access to the site. Most
> of the board and project leads also have editor access. I've also listed
> a few long term members on the webcom page [1]  who have admin access
> and could always step in to give other users more access.
> 
> I will continue to respond to direct emails for help (and monitor the
> webcom list when I can).
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
> 
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     You should all have access to edit website pages, or raise a trac
>     ticket for sidebars. We took an action item and got some of this
>     resolved - rather than talk about it please fix anything that was
>     missed :)
> 
>     We have done some of the work, as for communication news item blog
>     posts are always welcome.
>     On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:39 AM Suchith Anand
>     <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>         Thanks Maxi, Helena and everyone for following up this.
> 
>         I will email Jason (webmaster) to update the Geo4All main
>         website to reflect this (Apologies for the delay in this Helena
>         as i was busy with some urgent work deliverables here).
> 
>         Once everything is ready, i suggest that the OSGeo Board sends a
>         communication to the wider community. Thanks.
> 
>         Suchith
>         ________________________________________
>         From: Board [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>         <mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] on behalf of Helena
>         Mitasova [hmitaso at ncsu.edu <mailto:hmitaso at ncsu.edu>]
>         Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 3:27 PM
>         To: Massimiliano Cannata
>         Cc: OSGeo Board; Web Site Committee (WebCom) mailing list
>         Subject: Re: [Board] OSGeoeb-Site issues
> 
>         > On Mar 6, 2016, at 7:00 AM, Massimiliano Cannata
>         <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch
>         <mailto:massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>> wrote:
>         >
>         > My understanding is that edu committee doesn't exist anymore
>         but switched by geo4all.
> 
>         As I suggested in my email to Jody, the committee website should say
> 
>         Geo for all: Education and research outreach
> 
>         (it now says only Geo for all so education has disapeared
>         completely).
>         I can try to do the change myself as I should have access
>         to osgeo website but I haven’t tried it yet and it may take me
>         some time to figure it out - so if anybody has already
>         edited the osgeo website (or website committee member) and can
>         do it faster - please do edit this web page
> 
>         http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html
>         <http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html>
> 
> 
>         >
>         > Did we do a communication for this to the whole community?
> 
>         Not yet - I believe that there should be a news release about
>         this coordinated with Suchith,
>         but we should finish and approve the f2f minutes first so that
>         we can point to the minutes
>         to document that the transition was indeed officialy approved.
> 
>         The f2f minutes are held up by the name to be assigned to the
>         MOU action to collect
>         all MOUs in Dropbox and create an osgeo webpage with list (with
>         links) of the MOUs.
>         All MOUs are already available at wiki accessible through this
>         list, but this could be hard to find
>         https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:MoU
>         <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:MoU>
> 
>         Helena
> 
>         >
>         > Maxi
>         >
>         > Il 06/Mar/2016 04:10, "Jody Garnett" <jody.garnett at gmail.com
>         <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
>         > Forwarding to the webcomm list.... We may be asked to create
>         track tickets for some of them.
>         >
>         > Geo4All should be listed as a committee - looks like we missed
>         a reference to the education committee.
>         >
>         > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 6:10 PM Venkatesh Raghavan
>         <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
>         <mailto:raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>> wrote:
>         > Dear All,
>         >
>         > I am checking the OSGeo website (initially the items
>         > under "OSGeo Foundation" menu) and think that
>         > the following issues need to be fixed. I will continue
>         > checking under the "OSGeo Community" menu.
>         >
>         > a)
>         http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation//meetings/2006_02_04/announcement.html
>         <http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation//meetings/2006_02_04/announcement.html>
>         > Shows a blank page
>         >
>         > b)
>         http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation//meetings/2006_02_04/notes.html
>         <http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation//meetings/2006_02_04/notes.html>
>         > 1) Can be shown as direct HTML
>         > 2) "Microdoft OneNote Version" link show "page not found" can
>         be removed.
>         >
>         >
>         c)http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation//meetings/2006_02_04/meeting.html
>         <http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation//meetings/2006_02_04/meeting.html>
>         > "Pictures" URL needs to be changed. Just a link to actual
>         pictures should
>         > be fine.
>         >
>         > d) http://www.osgeo.org/content/faq/foundation_faq.html
>         <http://www.osgeo.org/content/faq/foundation_faq.html> needs to
>         be updated
>         > What is the legal form of the foundation?  says we are
>         tax-exempt under 501c(3).
>         > Is is 501c(4) or 501c(3)>
>         >
>         > e) http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html
>         <http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html>
>         > Do we need to put Geo4All details here.
>         >
>         > f) http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities
>         <http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities>
>         > "Read more about OpenLayers sponsorship opportunities"
>         > link is broken
>         > "Read more about Mapbender sponsorship opportunities"
>         > link is broken
>         >
>         > Need to request the respective PSCs to fix their sponsor pages
>         > or provide a new link.
>         >
>         > g) http://www.osgeo.org/contact
>         > Is the postal address shown above correct?
>         >
>         > Venka
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