[Webcom] Publishing the conference project pages

[Jason Birch]

Sure would be nice if we could just get that foss4g.org domain and set up a dedicated site on that... if not, conference.osgeo.org.
 
I see it as extremely important to have a consistent "message", look and feel to OSGeo.  I also see the foss4G conference as important on its own, and the amount of content that we will need to maintain as we archive previous years, manage future bids, and promote the current event will grow.  This is my main hesitation to slot it into the main www site; I think it would quickly outstrip that interface, and possibly even damage our main "message" or site focus if it wasn't done correctly.
 
I'm unfortunately on the road too and have to dedicate all of my time prepping for a presentation, so don't have time to research your questions.  Everyone's going through a learning curve on Drupal, and I'm personally hestiant to change the site structure without making sure that it's done in a way that will work for everyone (conference, geodata, etc, etc)
 
Jason
 

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From: webcom-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Jeff McKenna
Sent: Mon 2007-05-14 6:26 AM
To: Web committee discussions
Subject: Re: [Webcom] Publishing the conference project pages



Any WebCommittee people have any feedback on these issues?

thanks.

jeff



Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hello WebCommittee,
>
> I have several questions/needs regarding the OSGeo Conference project
> page (http://www.osgeo.org/conference).  These needs are important as
> the Conference Committee will be shortly releasing an RFP for the 2008
> conference.
>
> 1. List the Conference project in the right "OSGeo Projects" menu (the
> conference page is currently not linked from anywhere).  I suppose it
> only fits in the "Other Projects" section of that menu.
>
> 2. The conference page is made up of several other pages, and it would
> be nice to have a left sidebar menu for the conference section (the beta
> drupal instance had this for the conference section).  Is this possible
> with the live version?
>
> 3. Conference files (pdf, doc, etc.) live on the osgeo.org machine in
> /files/conference/, and we need to upload more files.  The existing
> files were ported from the beta drupal site, but now I am not sure how
> to add more.  Is that possible?
>
> Note that Tyler has given me "project manager" permissions.
>
> thanks everyone.
>
> jeff
>
>
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