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

[Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl)]

Hi Ian,

Is this update a pure technical one, or are there also plans to give the 
site a new fresh & young look?


regards,

Gert-Jan





Ian Edwards schreef op 09-12-2015 14:38:
> Excellent - thanks Jeff.
> 
> All - please keep sending in requirements for the remake of the main
> osgeo.org [2] website.  It may make sense to move specifics of this
> discussion to the webcom mailing list, but please reply on discuss
> with any major issues to this proposal overall, or with any
> alternative suggestions prior to tomorrow's board meeting.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>> [1]
>>> <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
>> 
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