[Qgis-psc] QGIS-Hub proposal

Mon Oct 19 02:35:13 PDT 2020

Hi Klas

I just want to follow up a little on this thread and introduce two of our
team members.

Sumandari is a new recruit at Kartoza and I have tasked her, as part of her
onramping process, to implement a clone of your style repo at
http://qgis-hub.fast-page.org on plugins.qgis.org (Kartoza will fund this).
We would also like to lift your styling / theming and transplant it onto
plugins.qgis.org to modernise the site a little bit. I am hoping you can
help us here with inputs on the styling front as Sumandari is not a
designer. Could you also share the link to GitHub etc. for your code?

Also I want  to introduce Samweli to you. Samweli is our C++ developer. He
recently worked with Nyall to implement the temporal support in QGIS. I
have asked Samweli to do an implementation of the style repo client within
the style manager in QGIS so that we can ultimately directly fetch and
publish styles from within QGIS. We plan to do this as a crowdfunded task,
and so he will first share only a feature set plan and probably QEP we
gather funding to pay for his time.

It would be great to have your inputs along the way so that we land up with
something beautiful and functional!

In terms of the larger vision of creating a central hub for QGIS for
sharing all resources etc. I think we are all on board with that. Marco has
proposed some separation of our web properties into the 'marketing part'
(chiefly qgis.org) and the hub which would include the work proposed above
and other assets like plugins.qgis.org, docs, api docs etc. Everything that
forms a useful resource for people using QGIS. We can help with this but it
is more of a medium term exercise and for now we want to focus on getting
the style hub going.

Regards

Tim

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:47 PM Klas Karlsson <
klas.karlsson at geosupportsystem.se> wrote:

> Hi Tim
>
> I'm for any concept that makes it easier for "common" users to search,
> preview and share simple resources like styles, layouts and maybe more. My
> example is just that, an example, and if you want to incorporate something
> similar into a current structure I'm all for it, and I'll help in any way I
> can.
>
> /Klas
> On 2020-09-02 16:16, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
> Dear Klas
>
> I just wanted to follow up on behalf of the PSC on this thread. We chatted
> about it last night at the PSC meeting. As you probably know from twitter I
> am a huge fan of your work by the way! We really love your design approach
> and the concept. We would however like to take the concept and integrate it
> into some of our existing web projects (specifically the code base of the
> plugins.qgis.org web site).
>
> I'd like to suggest we have a little chat over the next week or two to
> conspire, and then on kwakfriday I will co-opt Dimas, my trusty sidekick
> and web genius at Kartoza, to try to build a similar tool on top of the
> plugins.qgis.org code base. If you are willing and able, will you contact
> me off list and we can crack on. If you can join us too on kwakfriday that
> would be great!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 12:33 AM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:51 PM Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> ❤️ I'd love to see the css, js, html of the plugin site itself to get a
>>> touch of Klas' ui magic 🦄
>>>
>>
>> I am sure we could do that in the process...
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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> 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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>>>>>
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>>
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>
>
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>
> Tim Sutton
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>  * Desktop GIS programming services
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>
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