[Featureserver] featureserver.org

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Frank

> Once I know I can point the DNS entry and provide login access and
> a web site configuration on the projects vm.

We take the static version first - but if possible with a running
PostGIS instance behind which serves POIs.
Can you provide us - i.e. me and Michel - with the login access and a
web site configuration on the projects vm?

Yours, Stefan


2012/7/11 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
> Stefan,
>
> Yes, I have confirmed that we (OSGeo Systems Administration Committee)
> control the featureserver.org domain.  My preference would be to point it
> to the OSGeo "Projects VM" and have you re-setup the featureserver.org
> domain there.  As Chris mentions, work on this ought to be discussed
> on the featureserver mailing list in case anyone else has an interest.
>
> What sort of technology were you planning for the web site?  Static
> html is easy.  Some folks are also using OSGeo Trac instances as
> web sites, wikis and bug trackers.  But if you are satisfied with a static
> html web site that is definately easiest.
>
> Once I know I can point the DNS entry and provide login access and
> a web site configuration on the projects vm.
>
> Note, I will be getting on a cruise Friday and will not have much
> net access, so if you don't let me know soon it may be necessary
> for you to file a SAC ticket and get someone else to take it on.  That
> is not always easy.
>
> PS. I'm actually touristing in Rome right now.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Frank
>>
>> You are probably our rescue of our aim to revive featureserver.org.
>> Last friday I met Andreas Hocevar and he pointed me to you.
>>
>> In a semester thesis project of a student we have extended
>> featureserver and contacted Chris Schmidt if he would hand over the
>> domain since seems to be on an abandoned server and currently
>> unreachable.
>>
>> The results of the extensions of Michel Ott (alias 'iocast') are
>> currently hosted here: https://github.com/iocast/
>>
>> Since a while Chris does not answer anymore our requests (see below
>> the last contact I had from Chris). Now I see that the domain
>> featureserver.org belongs to Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
>>
>> Are you able and willing to hand over the domain (or the admin role) to us?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Stefan
>> ________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Prof. Stefan Keller, Dozent für Informationssysteme
>> HSR Hochschule für Technik (FHO)
>> Institut für Software und Geometa Lab
>> Oberseestr. 10 Pf.1475, CH-8640 Rapperswil
>> http://twitter.com/sfkeller
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at crschmidt.net]
>> Sent: Sonntag, 4. März 2012 04:02
>> To: Keller Stefan (sfkeller at hsr.ch)
>> Cc: crschmidt at crschmidt.net; sean.gillies at gmail.com; Ott Michel (m1ott at hsr.ch)
>> Subject: Re: featureserver.org: contributions and maintenance
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 11:52:47PM +0000, sfkeller at hsr.ch wrote:
>>> Hi Christopher
>>>
>>> Michel Ott an I tried to reach you in the past without luck in order to ask you if you are interested in this code.
>>> Michel has now finished implementing a WFS-T extension to Featureserver, which makes it a read-write WFS server.
>>> If it's OK and easiest for you, we could also do the merge into the repository ourselves.
>>
>> That's fine. I'm happy to hand over the reins to someone else who
>> wants to take ownership.
>>
>> That said, I don't see any emails to the mailing list:
>>
>>  http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/featureserver/
>>  http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/featureserver
>>
>> Perhaps reaching out to other people on the mailing list would be a
>> good way to figure out if there is a community here to be built and
>> maintained, rather than treating me as the only person running the
>> project :)
>>
>>> Yours, Stefan
>>>
>>> P.S.: http://featureserver.org is down. Who would be the one to contact?
>>>
>>
>> In theory, me, in practice, nobody. If you want to spin something up,
>> I'm happy to repoint it to wherever you think it should be pointed.
>> (And if I don't respond, a SAC ticket in the OSGeo SAC trac instance
>> should also do.)
>>
>>
>> -- Chris
>>
>>> ______________________________________________________________________
>>> __
>>>
>>> Prof. Stefan Keller, Dozent für Informationssysteme HSR Hochschule für
>>> Technik (FHO) Institut für Software und Geometa Lab Oberseestr. 10
>>> Pf.1475, CH-8640 Rapperswil http://twitter/sfkeller
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Schmidt
>> Web Developer
>
>
>
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