[SAC] [OSGeo-Conf] foss4g europe ticket

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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On 21.11.2013 00:38, Steven Feldman wrote:
> I'd hesitate to be too proscriptive about how the LOC develops their web
> content or to risk stifling innovation. I'd also question whether ease
> of archiving should be a major criteria in designing the web presence
> for an event

Yes it should. We want to have an archive of FOSS4G events. Experience
shows that kindly provided ad-hoc servers suddenly disappear. OSGeo can
provide the continuity which is required to have a gapless record of
FOSS4G events.

Cheers,
Arnulf

> ______
> Steven
> 
> 
> On 20 Nov 2013, at 10:10, "Seven (aka Arnulf)" <seven at arnulf.us
> <mailto:seven at arnulf.us>> wrote:
> 
> Jachym,
> all fine except that for archiving reasons it may be good to copy a
> static copy of the conference pages to OSGeo servers eventually - at
> latest after the event. Therefore maybe the LOC would be happy to
> maintain the web site on OSGeo servers to start with.
> 
> We might want to advise the LOC to implement their event website in an
> archivable format (avoid dynamic systems which require lots of
> maintenance, etc.). Registration, paper submission, etc. can be dynamic
> and get thrown away after use. The main page, abstract and presentation
> archive should be simple HTML.
> 
> Once agreed this is again something for the handbook...
> 
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
> 
> On 19.11.2013 21:20, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>>> Alex, big thanks for you work on this.
>>>>
>>>> In aliment with #1247, we agreed, that
>>>>
>>>> 1) europe.foss4g.org/index.html <http://europe.foss4g.org/index.html>
>>>> will be static page, preferably on OSGeo
>>>> server, pointing to every year's conference page
>>>>
>>>> 2) europe.foss4g.org/YEAR <http://europe.foss4g.org/YEAR> will point
>>>> to every year servers, hosted by
>>>> local organization committee (every year different).
>>>>
>>>> Reason for this: avoid any work from OSGeo system admins in the future,
>>>> so that we can go on year after year using this configuration, by just
>>>> adding new YEAR redirection to yet-another-server.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, I'm all for *any* solution, which will lead to the state,
>>>> where we will have infrastructure, which could be easy setuped every
>>>> year. As you are writing, DNS would be best solution (not sure, whether
>>>> europe.fos4g.org/2014 <http://europe.fos4g.org/2014> can be
>>>> considered as valid DNS record).
>>>>
>>>> I think, moving conference page to osgeo server would be too complicated
>>>> (server admins would have to change year-after year, it will be usually
>>>> probably hosted on some university server ...) I'm not sure, what it
>>>> would mean for you guys, and I just want to avoid any future work, since
>>>> I appreciate what you are already doing for us (OSGeo).
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>>
>>>> Jachym
>>>>
>>>> Dne 18.11.2013 19:34, Alex Mandel napsal(a):
>>>>> On 11/18/2013 03:19 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> could please anybody have a short look at the ticket #1247, regarding
>>>>>> setting up the domain and e-mail adresses for the FOSS4G-Europe
>>>>>> organization committee?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have still some quiestions, which need to be clarified? Is it
>>>>>> "just" lack of time?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jachym
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1247
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think there are still some questions. I ended up putting in a proxy
>>>>> just to make it work for now. But if you're going to host everything
>>>>> over on the server indicated should we just point the DNS directly
>>>>> there? Or did you want to move the site over to an osgeo server?
>>>>>
>>>>> Mostly this all gets more complicated when dealing with SSL for logins.
>>>>>
>>>>> Email stuff is completely out of my hands but that looks like others are
>>>>> looking into it. Agreed the DNS and email stuff are separate tickets and
>>>>> Arnulf's questions about branding are an even bigger discussion amongst
>>>>> all the current europe conference groups.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alex
>>>>>
>>>>>
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