[Qgis-psc] Fw: qgis web migration to osgeo

[Otto Dassau]

On Fri, 23 May 2008 11:29:36 -0300
"Tim Sutton" <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi Otto
> 
> Great stuff.
> 
> Ill need to coordinate with your guys for moving the community map
> over. Maybe we can convert it to use google maps or something? The
> placenames db used to drive the user reg page is very very big = 1gig
> or something.

yes, once we have a plan we will of course also migrate the user map. I just
played with a google physical map in OpenLayers. Maybe that could be a
solution as WMS background for the user map? 

regards,
 Otto

> The actuall community users map table is pretty small and I was
> thinking we could move it into sqlite3 db rather for easy backup etc.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 2008/5/23 Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I created now a folder /osgeo/qgis/qgis-web/ on the osgeo xblade14-2 server
and
> > requested at OSGeo SAC that they:
> >
> > a) create a qgis.osgeo.org subdomain linking to the directory
> > /osgeo/qgis/qgis-web/ on the xblade14-2 server.
> >
> > b) create a .htaccess restricted access to the new web domain, so we can use
it
> > as test environment with a small group of people (community-team and PSC).
> >
> > I also got sudo rights on that machine so I can create a necessary mysql
> > database (probably qgisweb) and install the new web presence, when we know
> > what we want.
> >
> > regards,
> >  Otto
> >
> > On Thu, 22 May 2008 21:45:10 +0200
> > Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi PSC,
> >>
> >> Some info about the planned qgis.org migration. When we have qgis.osgeo.org
> >> running, we can start and install joomla.
> >>
> >>  regards,
> >>   Otto
> >>
> >> #####
> >>
> >> Hi Frank,
> >>
> >> that sound's nice and simple - I am happy we don't have to switch. I will
talk
> >> to the qgis volunteers and then come back to you. I guess what we already
need
> >> for the beginning is a qgis.osgeo.org subdomain on the telascience server
and
> >> a mysql database for the new joomla installation, could you arrange that
for
> >> us, please?
> >>
> >> And because we want to prune the current qgis website back to the very
> >> essentials, we plan to use qgis.osgeo.org as a test environment in the
> > beginning
> >> and I would like to ask, if we can have a htaccess password as well, so
only
> > the
> >> people directly involved and the QGIS PSC can see and discuss the new
template
> >> and design until we officially migrate.
> >>
> >> thanks a lot for your help,
> >>   Otto
> >>
> >> On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:14:50 -0400
> >> "Frank Warmerdam" <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> > > Hi Frank,
> >> > >
> >> > > we found some volunteers in the qgis community who want to help us
> > migrating
> >> > > the web from qgis.org to qgis.osgeo.org. Tim Sutton told me that I can
> >> > > probably coordinate this with you and/or maybe IRC 'hobu'?.
> >> > >
> >> > > All volunteers have already joomla experience so we would like to use
it
> >> > > again at osgeo. Is that possible and how can we proceed?
> >> >
> >> > Otto,
> >> >
> >> > OSGeo's System Administration Committee does not
> >> > support Joomla directly, so you are in the position
> >> > that you need to install and support it yourself.  Assuming
> >> > it isn't too awfully demanding from a resource point of view
> >> > i would expect it to be hosted on the telascience blade
> >> > xblade14-2 which is the same server hosting grass.osgeo.org
> >> > and www.gdal.org.   It is also upload.osgeo.org so any QGIS
> >> > folks with accounts there for uploading stuff to the download
> >> > server already have access.  If you need new folks to have
> >> > accounts on the system, please email me directly or file a
> >> > ticket against SAC in the OSGeo Trac instance.
> >> >
> >> > Best regards,
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Qgis-psc mailing list
> >> Qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org
> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc
> > _______________________________________________
> > Qgis-psc mailing list
> > Qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org
> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc
> >
> 
> 
>