[OSGeoLive] Draft press release for OSGeoLive 13.1

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Thanks all for your work on this doc release!

On 3/1/20 11:29 PM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for the press release. I can publish send the press release, 
> when 13.1 is published.
>
> I will send the mail about the archive before - @cameron could you 
> please review again. I added more text. And maybe you have a nice 
> story about  the early versions.
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2089
>
> Astrid
>
> Am 28.02.2020 19:51 schrieb Cameron Shorter:
>> Hey Seth,
>>
>> You did fix bugs, which means we now have a presentation again. I've
>> tweaked the press release to say "thanks to BUG fixes from Seth". Your
>> call as to whether you want to add your last name to the call out.
>>
>> So we now only have one application in the "Domain Specific GIS"
>> section - zygrib. I notice that zygrib isn't included in the metrics
>> page - probably because it hasn't been registered with openhub as a
>> project.
>>
>> I'm guessing this might be one of our obscure projects which has an
>> every decreasing community behind it - quite likely without a
>> community behind it. As such, it is likely a candidate for removal
>> from OSGeoLive.
>>
>> However, in the interim, Seth, if you wish to move zygrib into another
>> category (and remove the "Domain Specific" category altogether because
>> it would now be empty), then I'd be fine with that.
>>
>> However, I'd suggest add it under "Navigation and Maps" rather than
>> "Spatial Tools".
>>
>> Cheers, Cameron
>>
>> On 28/2/20 10:31 am, Seth G wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>
>>> I didn't change anything for the presentation - it seems the Sphinx
>>> extension used for the presentation [1] will only work with Sphinx
>>> 1.6.5 (from 2017). Any newer versions of Sphinx will fail to build
>>> the presentation.
>>>
>>> The extension hasn't been updated since 2018, but there are a couple
>>> of pull requests [2] that seem to fix the various issues. We could
>>> create a fork of this project and update it, or see if anyone wants
>>> to become the maintainer. Otherwise, we are stuck with Sphinx 1.6.5
>>> or need to drop the presentation.
>>>
>>> I did fix all the RST errors in the docs except one. The Perl script
>>> that generates the presentation seems to have an error on the
>>> "Domain Specific GIS" section which contains a single item - the
>>> zygrib project. The actual outputted HTML seems fine, but the RST
>>> error remains. Ideally the Perl script would be updated, if not
>>> could zygrib be moved to the "Spatial Tools" category?
>>>
>>> Once the final RST error is fixed I'd propose that any future RST
>>> warnings throw an error in the Travis builds so they are caught as
>>> early as possible in a pull request.
>>>
>>> Seth
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/tell-k/sphinxjp.themes.revealjs [3]
>>>
>>> [2] https://github.com/tell-k/sphinxjp.themes.revealjs/pulls [4]
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> web:http://geographika.co.uk [5]
>>>
>>> twitter: @geographika
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, at 10:49 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Once Brian has found a work around for his current network issues,
>>>> and has copied our latest OSGeoLive 13.1 docs to the website, we
>>>> will be ready to put out a press release.
>>>>
>>>> Felicity and I have put together a draft press release. Could
>>>> someone please review.
>>>>
>>>> Seth, I've mentioned you by first name only in the press release.
>>>> Would you mind adding your last name too.
>>>>
>>>> Astrid, are you okay to review and then publish once the docs are
>>>> live?
>>>>
>>>> Press release here:
>>>>
>>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2090 [1]
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>>
>>>> Technology Demystifier
>>>>
>>>> Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
>>>>
>>>> M +61 (0) 419 142 254
>>>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Technology Demystifier
>> Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
>>
>> M +61 (0) 419 142 254
>>
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2090
>> [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive
>> [3] https://github.com/tell-k/sphinxjp.themes.revealjs
>> [4] https://github.com/tell-k/sphinxjp.themes.revealjs/pulls
>> [5] http://geographika.co.uk
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