[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
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> 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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