[SeasonOfDocs] Website for TheGoodDocsProject
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sun Jul 21 13:56:45 PDT 2019
Thanks for starting to set up the website, we will keep looking like
vapour-ware until we have a presence.
Yes Jo, this is worthy of a PSC vote. Lets continue discussing in this
thread and at this weeks video meeting. Then I'll put a motion forward
based on our rough consensus.
I'm mildly in favour of "keep-it-simple", and keep barriers to entry
low. It significantly helps with the long term sustainability of the
project.
Re domain name, I think we should ensure our github basename and domain
url are the same. Either "thegooddocs" or "thegooddocsproject".
Selecting this means that we have decided not to stand separately to
WriteTheDocs. This will be another motion for the PSC to decide.
On 22/7/19 6:32 am, Jo Cook wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <http://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
> <http://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 <mailto: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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