[Qgis-psc] QGIS-Hub proposal

Thu Aug 6 23:40:52 PDT 2020

Hey Tim

On 06.08.20 23:34, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Can I suggest we roll in this functionality into the plugins.qgis.org
> <http://plugins.qgis.org> site?
>
would make sense to consolidate, only issue I see is Klas code is PHP,
but I guess it is just a routing issue and hopefully we've somebody
beside Klas that can support php.
> I'd be happy to spend a little of our kartoza community time on this...

Cool!

Cheers

Marco

>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:59 PM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org
> <mailto:marco at qgis.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Klas,
>
>     wow, looks really nice, thanks a lot! I added this to the next PSC
>     agenda (1.9.20)
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Marco
>
>     On 06.08.20 13:35, Klas Karlsson wrote:
>>
>>     Hi
>>
>>     My name is Klas Karlsson and I dabble with QGIS in my spare time,
>>     and once in a while I get an idea...
>>
>>     # Proposal to implement a "QGIS Hub" on the official qgis.org
>>     <http://qgis.org> site.
>>
>>     ## Background
>>
>>     I was creating a lot of styles just for fun, and was thinking
>>     about creating a PR to the QGIS GitHub.
>>     However, a lot of the styles were really intricate and might
>>     apply to relatively few use cases.
>>     In stead of filling up the default styles with nice but really
>>     "un-expandable" styles, there should be
>>     an easier way.
>>
>>     Sure, there's the resource sharing plugin, and it works great.
>>     But it is a lot of steps to go through
>>     for someone that is only interested in sharing a simple style or
>>     two. Enter the idea of a "style hub".
>>
>>     On https://style-hub.github.io I created a demo of how it could
>>     look. I also created https://layout-hub.github.io
>>     and that made me realize that there may be a few of these simpler
>>     resource files that the community
>>     would like to share, but don't because of the complexity to do so.
>>
>>     ## QGIS Hub
>>
>>     So why not at central "Hub" for all kinds of small and easy to
>>     share resources?
>>
>>     On https://github.com/style-hub/hub-server/ I started a project
>>     to create such a hub.
>>     During the development so far I've used local servers to test it,
>>     but to get some feed-back
>>     I also set up a site on free hosting at http://qgis-hub.rf.gd,
>>     which isn't great since it for instance lack
>>     TLS/SSL, which is required for some functions, but it should be
>>     enough to get some user reactions.
>>
>>     The goal is to create the style-hub first, and then use that to
>>     "clone" it to a layout-hub too.
>>
>>     I'm doing this because it's fun and educational, but if it gets
>>     approval it would probably look good at:
>>
>>     __hub.qgis.org__
>>
>>     ## Requirements
>>
>>     The code is available at GitHub and basically the requirements are:
>>
>>     * PHP web hosting
>>     * MySQL database (users and meta data)
>>     * TLS/SSL for https (required for some functions)
>>     * Storage space for resource files (write access) (1 Gb will
>>     probably store well over 1'000 resources)
>>
>>     I'm willing to continue to work on the site, but I would prefer
>>     not to do so alone, since I don't
>>     have the time to drop everything if there's a problem (as
>>     mentioned in the beginning I'm doing this in my
>>     spare time).
>>     My skills at PHP and MySQL is also limited (this is a learning
>>     experience),
>>     so the code would probably benefit from some audit, and if the
>>     hub is to be included in the official site
>>     I guess it should be styled in the same way, which also would
>>     require some work.
>>
>>     For now I will continue to work on the site at
>>     http://qgis-hub.rf.gd as long as I think it is still fun
>>     and I have time available.
>>
>>     Best regards
>>
>>     Klas Karlsson
>>
>>     =========================================================
>>     Mail: klas.karlsson at geosupportsystem.se
>>     <mailto:klas.karlsson at geosupportsystem.se>
>>     Twitter: @klaskarlsson
>>     YouTube: https://youtube.com/klaskarlsson
>>
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