[OSGeo-Discuss] Barn raising: osgeo.org web site

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2015-12-07 6:31 PM, Ian Edwards wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Plans to recreate the current OSGeo.org website in a newer version of
> the Drupal content management system are on the wiki here:
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo.org_Web_Site_-_2016_Barn_Raising
>
> This topic is also on the agenda for this week's OSGeo board meeting
> (Thursday):
>      agenda: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10>
> time:
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=12&day=10&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC
>
> Please send replies to the message to *discuss**@lists.osgeo.org
> <http://lists.osgeo.org>* and not to the other lists included on this
> message to prevent the discussion from being split across the discuss,
> board, sac and webcom lists!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ian
>
> P.S. I anticipate that we may not all agree that a manual migration to
> Drupal 8 is the absolute optimal solution --- but please bear in mind
> that possible upgrades have been in discussion since 2007...  We're
> looking for a solution that can be easily implemented and meets the main
> requirements (including removing ad hoc custom PHP and also ensuring
> solid multilingual support).
>
>
>

I've added more requirements to the wiki as well:

  - Allow easy way to find communication channels:

     mailing lists
     IRC
     OSGeo Slack
     OSGeo HipChat
     OSGeo Gitter


-jeff