[Qgis-psc] QGIS-Hub proposal
Matthias Kuhn
matthias at opengis.ch
Fri Aug 7 07:51:50 PDT 2020
❤️ I'd love to see the css, js, html of the plugin site itself to get a
touch of Klas' ui magic 🦄
Matthias
On 8/7/20 4:25 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <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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>>
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>
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> Marco Bernasocchi
>
> QGIS.org Chair
> http://berna.io
>
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> Tim Sutton
> Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open
> source:
> * Desktop GIS programming services
> * Geospatial web development
> * GIS Training
> * Consulting Services
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> <http://freenode.net/>
> Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee
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