FW: [Foss4g2009] foss4g2009 site migration to Staticmatic [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Shoaib,

If we go down this path, who else besides you can maintain the website?

What happens if you are not available to maintain the site due to being hit
the proverbial 'bus' (let's hope that doesn't happen!).

Bruce Bannerman



>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: foss4g2009-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> > [mailto:foss4g2009-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Shoaib Burq
> > Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2009 11:42 PM
> > To: foss4g2009-PRIVATE; foss4g2009
> > Subject: [Foss4g2009] foss4g2009 site migration to Staticmatic
> >
> > Over the last few days I have been rewriting the foss4g
> > website using Staticmatic. http://staticmatic.rubyforge.org/
> >
> > This has several imporatant advantages
> >
> > 1. If we add an item in the sidebars we dont' have to go and
> > change the HTML on all the 29 pages by hand.
> > 2. we can use different page layouts depending on which page
> > we are looking at.
> > 3. we don't have to worry about the relative paths to
> > resources such as images, css, js.
> > 4. all the html code generated by haml templates is perfectly
> > aligned 5. It allows for partials which means we can have
> > partials for parts of the site that get regularly updated.
> > e.g press releases, sponosrs look at
> > http://github.com/sabman/2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/tree/f1fc
> 5330c2c3243c27f33994edbe740376468796/src<http://github.com/sabman/2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/tree/f1fc%0A5330c2c3243c27f33994edbe740376468796/src>
> > 6. things will be less likely to break
> >
> > This will save anyone working on the site many hours.
> >
> > There is only one drawback (sort of) - person coding the site
> > will need to understand staticatic, haml and sass which is
> > not necessarily a bad thing - they are both quite elegant and
> > worth learning (IMO)
> >
> > So the code is currently on github
> > http://github.com/sabman/2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/ but if
> > Tyler is okay with it I will move it to osgeo svn and then
> > you will need to do a fresh checkout from the
> > 2009.foss4g.org-staticmatic/site/ directory
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