[OSGeo-Edu] FreeGIS Book

[Allan Doyle]

Note: I read the rest of the messages in this thread that come after  
this one, but this is the one that was easiest to jump into for my  
purposes... so I've cut out all but the relevant bits.

On Aug 13, 2006, at 10:00, P Kishor wrote:
[...]

>
> At that point, the wait will be over, and Allan will migate the book
> from Eogeo to this new server.
>
> The reason we are waiting until that point is so Allan has to migrate
> the content only once, because, as I understand, its final resting
> place is going to be a telascience machine.

I feel compelled to address the meme of "Allan ... migrate"... The  
content should be migrated by the authors as they see fit, not by me.  
I'm merely the "caretaker", if that, of the current Free GIS Book site.


>
>> There
>> are still some unanswered questions on the discuss page whether  
>> Mediawiki
>> is the best platform to do it.
>
> This is something I am not at all qualified to answer, so I will  
> refrain.

I'm not qualified, either. The first choice we(I) made was Zwiki/ 
Plone and that was not so wonderful.

Let's talk about "requirements" for a quick second.
1. Easy individual and group editing
2. Easy "extraction" to more "frozen" forms - e.g. journal articles,  
course notes, etc.

Multilingual - sure, it's nice, but no one will edit in more than one  
language, I suspect. It would be nice to have the ability to handle  
other languages, yes.

Integration in to OSGEO's "gestalt" - again, a great thing but  
secondary to 1 and 2. This could be achieved with "look" - colors,  
logos; and "feel" - same base software.

[...]

> If Allan agrees with the above sentiment, then perhaps we should dive
> right in. I will leave it up to him to decide.

I think we can take the luxury of thinking about this for another  
week or two. This is vacation/holidays season in at Europe/N. America  
so the pressure is not so high. I'm going away from this Thursday- 
next Thursday...


I would also like to hear Ari's opinion, he was one of the most  
active participants on the previous edition and may have a  
multilingual perspective that is more compelling than mine.

   Allan

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