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

[Shoaib Burq]

Hi Bruce

good question - the staticmatic site has two parts

1. the HTML part (which is the same as what we had originally)
2. the haml/sass templates

at the moment I use 2 to generate 1 - however in the case of me
kicking the proverbial bucket we will just go back to editing 1 which
we were doing anyways.

The new method is saving me lots of pain & stress which will translate
to a prolonged life expectancy :)

cheers

Shoaib

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Bruce Bannerman
<bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>> > 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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