[OSGeo-Conf] [SAC] foss4g europe ticket

[Steven Feldman]

I'd hesitate to be too proscriptive about how the LOC develops their web content or to risk stifling innovation. I'd also question whether ease of archiving should be a major criteria in designing the web presence for an event
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Steven


On 20 Nov 2013, at 10:10, "Seven (aka Arnulf)" <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:

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> Jachym,
> all fine except that for archiving reasons it may be good to copy a
> static copy of the conference pages to OSGeo servers eventually - at
> latest after the event. Therefore maybe the LOC would be happy to
> maintain the web site on OSGeo servers to start with.
> 
> We might want to advise the LOC to implement their event website in an
> archivable format (avoid dynamic systems which require lots of
> maintenance, etc.). Registration, paper submission, etc. can be dynamic
> and get thrown away after use. The main page, abstract and presentation
> archive should be simple HTML.
> 
> Once agreed this is again something for the handbook...
> 
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
> 
> On 19.11.2013 21:20, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>> Alex, big thanks for you work on this.
>> 
>> In aliment with #1247, we agreed, that
>> 
>> 1) europe.foss4g.org/index.html will be static page, preferably on OSGeo
>> server, pointing to every year's conference page
>> 
>> 2) europe.foss4g.org/YEAR will point to every year servers, hosted by
>> local organization committee (every year different).
>> 
>> Reason for this: avoid any work from OSGeo system admins in the future,
>> so that we can go on year after year using this configuration, by just
>> adding new YEAR redirection to yet-another-server.
>> 
>> Basically, I'm all for *any* solution, which will lead to the state,
>> where we will have infrastructure, which could be easy setuped every
>> year. As you are writing, DNS would be best solution (not sure, whether
>> europe.fos4g.org/2014 can be considered as valid DNS record).
>> 
>> I think, moving conference page to osgeo server would be too complicated
>> (server admins would have to change year-after year, it will be usually
>> probably hosted on some university server ...) I'm not sure, what it
>> would mean for you guys, and I just want to avoid any future work, since
>> I appreciate what you are already doing for us (OSGeo).
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> Jachym
>> 
>> Dne 18.11.2013 19:34, Alex Mandel napsal(a):
>>> On 11/18/2013 03:19 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> could please anybody have a short look at the ticket #1247, regarding
>>>> setting up the domain and e-mail adresses for the FOSS4G-Europe
>>>> organization committee?
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have still some quiestions, which need to be clarified? Is it
>>>> "just" lack of time?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> 
>>>> Jachym
>>>> 
>>>> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1247
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think there are still some questions. I ended up putting in a proxy
>>> just to make it work for now. But if you're going to host everything
>>> over on the server indicated should we just point the DNS directly
>>> there? Or did you want to move the site over to an osgeo server?
>>> 
>>> Mostly this all gets more complicated when dealing with SSL for logins.
>>> 
>>> Email stuff is completely out of my hands but that looks like others are
>>> looking into it. Agreed the DNS and email stuff are separate tickets and
>>> Arnulf's questions about branding are an even bigger discussion amongst
>>> all the current europe conference groups.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>> 
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