[TOSprint] Website for OSGeo Code Sprints

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Board, and TOSprint list members,

As we organize the Vienna Code Sprint (March 2014), we realized the need 
for a proper website for the sprint to give some visibility to the 
sponsors in a home that looks better than a raw wiki page.

We discussed this with Stephan who is organizing the Vienna sprint and 
they setup a simple website for the sprint where the event summary and 
the sponsors can be presented, and a link to the wiki is provided for 
people to sign up, etc.

What I would like to suggest is that we start placing websites for our 
code sprints, under a common umbrella which is easy to find by members 
of the community. A few simple steps are involved, and I'd take the lead 
on them:

1- Setup http://sprint.osgeo.org/ as a landing page to list current and 
past sprints, similar to the current foss4g.org landing page listing 
current and past foss4g's

2- Then use subdomains for each sprint's website as we do for FOSS4G 
each year. The Vienna 2014 sprint URL would be 
http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/ (the actual website setup by Stephan 
will be hosted on github, so no hosting requirements are involved, just 
a DNS entry pointing to it)

3- If you get the idea, then we could also eventually invite other OSGeo 
sprints to join under the same umbrella, e.g. 
bolsena2014.sprint.osgeo.org, and so on for GRASS and QGIS sprints, etc.

I don't think we need a formal motion of the board for this, so I am 
mostly sending this as an FYI expressing my interest to move forward 
with this proposal unless I hear objections or suggestions of better 
alternatives.

Thanks

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Daniel Morissette
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