[Qgis-psc] qgis web migration

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Oh, you will need to coordinate with 'hobu' on IRC and or Frank W for
getting space on osgeo. There is one catch in that the wiki (moinmoin)
and website (joomla) are not on there list of offerings (or werent
before today anyway). There was some talk of the folks at telescience
giving us space instead as we would get a complete blade or vm to use
and install whatever we want. Hopefully we can put debian onto the
virtual server too (osgeo are redhat fans).

Regards

Tim

2008/5/21 Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
> Hi Otto
>
> I'm pleased you have some crew available to tackle the web migration -
> I've been wanting to do it for some time but I havent had the time or
> when I have had the time the OSGEO folks I need to help me havent been
> around.
>
> It will be great if you continue to use joomla. Please let them put
> the new site online as a test server before we start pointing people
> to it so that the PSC can agree to the look and feel etc. After
> getting it running on qgis.osgeo.org, we can get Gary to repoint the
> domain name to that, and Ill shutdown the server that qgis is
> currently running on.
>
> As I mentioned on the other list, I'm a bit wary about using Joomla
> 1.5 already - Joomla is a great content manager but during the life of
> QGIS.org being on my server we got hacked several time due to using
> bleeding edge or Joomla, or not bleeding edge enough. So I think we
> should be conservative about what we put on there - QGIS.org gets a
> lot of traffic and we are regularly DOSSed etc. Also as I mentioned on
> the commie list, I think we should prune down the web site to provide
> just the very basics of what qgis is, where to download it, and where
> to go on to get help and news etc. Its very tempting to add all sorts
> of modules and features (as I/we have done in the past) but invariably
> they get out of date and things start to look a bit ragged.
>
> The biggest thing is going to be getting the community map moved over.
> I can make a dump of the current joomla db and the qgis users db
> (which I think we should move to sqlite3).
>
> Ok I'm brain dumping...:-) and will stop now. Last thing Ill say is
> that it may be better to programme the migration for when Im back in
> SA as Im without internet connection at the moment and probably Ill
> need to be passing sql dumps etc to the migration folks. Ill be in SA
> in two weeks.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> 2008/5/21 Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we currently have at least 3 people who would like to reorganize the qgis web
>> presence - a good chance. From the mails on the qgis-community-team list I got
>> the impression that we could combine the movement to osgeo.org with these
>> updates. So qgis.org would stay as it is and in parallel we create a new
>> probably joomla website at qgis.osgeo.org.
>>
>> Would that be in your sense, too?
>>
>> If so, I would like to manage it and organize the creation and migration with
>> the volunteers within the next months. Can you tell me the current status of the
>> web migration and the contact person on osgeo side?
>>
>> regards,
>>  Otto
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>
>
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Tim Sutton
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