New MapServer Website (beta)

[Liz Godwin]

That's great! Good work! I look forward to using the new site!

On 5/25/05, Howard Butler <hobu at iastate.edu> wrote: 
> 
> All,
> 
> I am pleased to announce the beta release of the new MapServer
> website. The site is located at <http://ms.gis.umn.edu>.
> 
> I, Kari Guerts, the mapserver-docs team, and the developers have been
> working to develop a site that streamlines documentation development,
> allows through-the-web editing (but not a free-for-all like a wiki),
> provides searching capabilites, provides support for multi-lingual
> documents, and provides for structured content types. The new website was
> developed using Plone <http://plone.org>, with some additional libraries
> that add functionality and some minor coding to make things fit the 
> project
> better.
> 
> Some examples of documents on the site include the Mapfile reference
> <http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/>, the howto list
> <http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto>, and a "Getting started with MapServer"
> document (only exists on the new site thanks to David Fawcett)
> <http://ms.gis.umn.edu/new_users/>.
> 
> As a user with this site, you can now participate in the documentation of
> MapServer. By "joining" the site, you can create content, submit howtos,
> faqs, and tutorials for inclusion in the site, add comments to existing
> documents, and help translate documents into your native language. I will
> be working on documents to describe how you can participate in the coming
> weeks. Once you join the site, make sure to go to your "Personal
> Preferences" page and update your email alert preference, your picture if
> you want, and your latitude/longitude (Sean posted some details of how 
> this
> can be used here <http://zcologia.com/news/33>).
> 
> The website should be considered beta-level, much like the beta releases 
> of
> the software. If you find an issue, please let me know and/or file a bug
> in bugzilla in the website category, and I'll try to get to it. The two
> sites will continue to run in parallel for a while, very likely until 
> after
> the release of 4.6 and MUM3, to allow it to grow out of its initial bugs,
> to allow for ample time for people to get comfortable with it, and to not
> add another item to the conference crunch.
> 
> Much of the existing documentation on the blue site has been migrated to
> the new site, although things might not be perfectly in sync yet. We're
> working to migrate things over as time permits. There are also a few other
> website bugs here and there, the logo is just a place holder, and I'm sure
> there are many other issues I don't even know about yet ;). The general
> structure is there, however, with much of the content filled out so you 
> can
> get a feel for how things will look in the future. After the beta period,
> the site will probably be moved to <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu> (and
> continue to exist at its current address), and the stuff in the blue site
> will be preserved and made available on something like
> <http://old.mapserver.gis.umn.edu>.
> 
> I would like to thank Kari, Steve, Tom Burk and the UMN team, the
> mapserver-docs crew, and the developers for all of their help and input on
> this project.
> 
> Howard
> 
> PS. Remember that there is a server outage tonight, so it might not be
> available due to the outage.
>
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