[SeasonOfDocs] Website for TheGoodDocsProject

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

I'm against a hosted website. It adds management complexity, which seems
fine to start with but in the long term it's a pain to manage, to transfer
ownership etc. I know this from personal experience...

Unless we definitely need additional features, then we should keep it
simple and ask whether they would add anything substantial to what we're
trying to achieve.

Do we need to put this to a PSC vote?

Jo



On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, 20:38 Sanket Totewar, <sanket at totewar.com> wrote:

> Quick question guys. Have we finalized on GitHib pages or open to using a
> content management system (CMS) such as Wordpress or Drupal?
>
> I reckon in the near future, we may want to allow SSL, subdomains,
> comments, forms, chatbots, survey results, video streaming, and
> downloadables, etc. on the project website. So while it's great to add a
> readme.md on the code that we host on GitHub, I personally believe we
> should move to a CMS. Here's a website I put together last year in less
> than two hours using Wordpress: https://www.totewar.com/
>
> If we ever create an API, it would make it easier for us to host swagger
> documentation using a front end such as slate on an endpoint of our choice.
> Here's something I put up 5 years ago:
> https://www.contentstack.com/docs/apis/content-management-api/
>
> I'm happy to pay for the costs. Would recommend purchasing from Google
> Domains as they're far better than GoDaddy and others. We could use the AWS
> free tier to host for free for up to a year and get free SSL and content
> delivery using Cloudflare. Do we have a budget committee or a nominated
> treasurer?
>
> I'd love to be more involved in this part of the project but I want to
> hear your thoughts first. :)
>
> Regards,
> Sanket
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 3:48 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Felicity,
>>
>> There's a list of supported themes here: https://pages.github.com/themes/.
>> Some are better than others!
>>
>> For uk.osgeo.org we use https://github.com/orderedlist/minimal which is,
>> as it says, extremely minimal but it holds up well. We use an additional
>> element to automatically render csv files as tables, but that has slipped
>> my mind for the moment.
>>
>> URLs- thegooddocsproject.org does seem to be available. I would be happy
>> to pay the cost of that domain if we want to go for it (the first place I
>> saw has it at £15.99 which is not a massive outlay).
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 1:14 AM Felicity Brand <felicitybrand at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi gang,
>>>
>>> I've been experimenting with github pages to make a website.
>>>
>>> Here is the repo: https://github.com/thegooddocs/thegooddocs.github.io
>>>
>>> This is the URL: https://thegooddocs.github.io/
>>>
>>> If anyone feels like hooking it up to Jekyll/Markdown whatever to make
>>> it beautiful please jump in. Let me know if you have any access issues.
>>> Also, it's just placeholder text I put on that page. Go ahead and change it.
>>>
>>> Are we going to pay for a custom domain to get a nicer URL?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Felicity
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> SeasonOfDocs mailing list
>>> SeasonOfDocs at lists.osgeo.org
>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/seasonofdocs
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------
>> http://about.me/jocook
>> _______________________________________________
>> SeasonOfDocs mailing list
>> SeasonOfDocs at lists.osgeo.org
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/seasonofdocs
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/seasonofdocs/attachments/20190721/abcfdb86/attachment.html>