[Webcom] Publishing the conference project pages

[Jeff McKenna]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> I'm not too sure I like this idea.  Having a link to the actual conference
> web site is of course a no-brainer.  We want this to be easy for anyone to
> find, and to promote it.
> 
> But we haven't generally tried to advertise internal working committees
> like the conference committee, SAC, WebCom and VisCom directly from the
> main site.  They are of course fairly conveniently available from the main
> wiki page and from the 
> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html
> page linked from the "About the Foundation" page.

Ok, I mistakenly thought that the geodata and education links on the 
main page went to their working committees.  Ignore my request.

> 
>>> 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?
> 
> I certainly don't know how to do this, and I'm a bit nervous about putting
> much time into customizations like this.

hmmm ok.  This is a 'nice to have' but not a show stopper.

> 
>>> 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?
> 
> I haven't been following the whole file management issue closely.  Assuming
> there has been no progress on that front, I think you need to make any
> additions available to a system administrator (Howard, Shawn or I for 
> instance)
> and get them to copy them onto the server.
> 

Tyler pointed me to Drupal's "Filemanager" module 
(http://drupal.org/project/filemanager), and he set me up for testing it 
on a test instance.  Works well!

thanks everyone.

jeff