[SeasonOfDocs] Website for TheGoodDocsProject

[Jo Cook]

I agree up to a point but with GitHub, all we require for people to be
involved either contributing to the website or the templates is one GitHub
account, whereas if we go with a different service we're increasing the
barriers to participation.

Jo

On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, 21:27 Kyle Lobo, <kylelobo11898 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I personally feel like we won't be needing comments, forms (Google forms
> ftw), chatbots, survey results or video streaming. Also,
> if we are planning to use a static hosting service such as GitHub pages,
> I'd recommend we use something like Netlify instead of GitHub pages.
>
> Regards,
> Kyle
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 1:08 AM 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
>>>>
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