[Qgis-psc] QGIS-Hub proposal

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Yeah sorry I wasnt clear - I am proposing that we re-implement it in python
with the same workflow.

Regards

Tim

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 7:40 AM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hey Tim
> On 06.08.20 23:34, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
> Can I suggest we roll in this functionality into the 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> 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 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
>> Twitter: @klaskarlsson
>> YouTube: https://youtube.com/klaskarlsson
>>
>>
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