[OSGeo-Conf] [SAC] foss4g europe ticket

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:
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> On 21.11.2013 00:38, Steven Feldman wrote:
>> 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
>
> Yes it should. We want to have an archive of FOSS4G events. Experience
> shows that kindly provided ad-hoc servers suddenly disappear. OSGeo can
> provide the continuity which is required to have a gapless record of
> FOSS4G events.

Yes, this is very important, especially for the academic track.
Even a httrack copy is better than everything lost.

Furthermore a long term archive helps the casual internaut understand
that the conferences are not ad-hoc but a series of important
conferences.

Best
Markus


> Cheers,
> Arnulf
>
>> ______
>> Steven
>>
>>
>> On 20 Nov 2013, at 10:10, "Seven (aka Arnulf)" <seven at arnulf.us
>> <mailto:seven at arnulf.us>> wrote:
>>
>> 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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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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