[pycsw-devel] new website development

Fri Aug 23 12:46:05 PDT 2013

We're hosted on OSGeo infrastructure currently for the website.  Having said this, I agree 100% with your comments on simplicity.  Let's give it a shot with Jekyll/Markdown + GitHub pages.

Thanks very much for the offer to help out.  I've pushed what I've got so far (read feeble attempt) to https://github.com/geopython/pycsw.org, to a branch called "pelican".

I've added more details to the ticket for this at https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues/180 to outline the content and design considerations.

The goal is to have something up for FOSS4G 2013.  It would be great to have this up during that week, given the many presentations and BOFs involving pycsw.

Thanks again!

From: ryan.clark at azgs.az.gov
To: tomkralidis at hotmail.com
CC: gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com; pycsw-devel at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [pycsw-devel] new website development
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:10:25 +0000

I would say the big benefit to GitHub pages is that they provide your server hosting. Maybe that's not an issue. I think there's also a nice simplicity in keeping the website / documentation code literally in the same repository as the code itself -- just on
 a separate branch. Again, that may or may not be an issue.

Either way, I'd like to try and help with the website / templating / design. Have you already started some of this work in a separate repository?

Thanks!

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On Aug 23, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at hotmail.com> wrote:

Looks like it. Since the existing content is rST, I thought that would be easier. Are there advantages to using Jekyll + GitHub pages? I'm still in the template/design stage, so there's time to change engines.

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Subject: Re: [pycsw-devel] new website development 

Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:53:05 +0000 

This kind of documentation would be a great target for Jekyll + GitHub  

pages. I guess you would have to use markdown though? 

On Aug 23, 2013, at 2:38 AM, "Angelos Tzotsos"  

<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com<mailto:gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Tom, 

This is a very good idea for all the reasons you mentioned. 

+1 

BTW, I am preparing an HTML5 presentation for FOSS4G 2013 and I am  

wondering where this would live and be maintained. 

If the web-site code lives in a new git repository, then I guess it  

would be natural to add resources there, right? 

Best, 

Angelos 

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Tom Kralidis  

<tomkralidis at hotmail.com<mailto:tomkralidis at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Hi all, 

The Sphinx documentation in [1] powers the pycsw.org<http://pycsw.org>  

website and associated documentation. 

Sphinx docs were initially setup to manage both to make things easy,  

however given project maturation, our OSGeo incubation process, I think  

it's a good time to decouple the website content from pure software  

documentation and manage them separately.  Rationale/benefits: 

- web content is growing (OSGeo incubation will soon lead us to  

PSC/RFC's and so on, community, FAQ) 

- website is due for a nice redesign (the docs don't need as much flare) 

- website announcements are natural for a blog setup 

- the website's lifecycle shouldn't/won't have to move along with  

software release 

I've opened a ticket for this [2]. 

Comments? Ideas? Objections? 

It would be great to have some help especially in the website/template  

design, so if anyone has a flare for web design/UI, any contributions  

are more than welcome. 

I'm initially thinking for the design to be implemented using Bootstrap  

[3], and setup using Pelican [4] (n.b. we don't have to redo the web  

content which is already in rST). 

..Tom 

[1] https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/tree/master/docs

[2] https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues/180

[3] http://getbootstrap.com 

[4] http://docs.getpelican.com 

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