[Webcom] New website theme is up (not the content though)

[Tyler Mitchell]

For some reason I'm feeling responsible for the website, not sure how
I ended up here, but I really feel a bit stuck - technically, logistically...

The short story - there are three things going on:

1. Migration to a new server - enough fun on a normal day :)

2. Upgrade to at least one newer version (Drupal 5->7 preferred).
Unfortunately it's becoming hard to find the same modules in 
newer versions, in particular ones like LDAP authentication and 
learning how international translations will be handled.

3. Theme change - the theme is ready for Drupal 6, but it is designed 
for use in a different "portal" style website.  This requires some new 
content to be created.  Basically, new pages are needed for almost 
every one of the key items shown in the menus at: http://www3.osgeo.org/

It can be a great site, and I think there is interest but technically
few people that have the time to help out.

I'm biting off as much of this as I can chew over the upcoming few
weeks (I'll be off for a week on Wed).  

Aside from the new content, we could use a specific Drupal Master Admin 
Guru - or move to a different framework if someone wants to take 
that on.  Upgrading has just been too painful, but that's just for me!

We lost Wolf due to time availability and he'd whip through this in a
weekend just for fun.  Maybe if you can offer a free cruise (with him locked
in his cabin with only wifi) he'd work magic ;-)

Hope that helps,
Tyler

On 2011-10-24, at 8:20 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:

> Paging WebCom, paging WebCom. Any news on this?
> 
> Side note: The Mailing list did not have a moderator, I added myself as
> transitional moderator, please someone take ownership.
> 
> Thanks,
> Arnulf
> 
> On 07/19/2011 07:30 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> Hi Webcom,
>> 
>> just curious about the state of the new Drupal theme - will it go online?
>> 
>> Best
>> Markus
>> 
>> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
>> <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all, you can take a peek at:
>>> 
>>> http://www3.osgeo.org - this is a *raw* import from the designers who
>>> converted our design into a Drupal theme.
>>> 
>>> If it was just a theme though I'd be able  to easily apply this to the our
>>> migrated site where I started the import.  However, they also pre-loaded this
>>> into a Drupal instance and set up some sample nodes that link to empty pages
>>> to show off main->secondary page functionality.  I can get the basics going in
>>> the migrated site but can't figure out how they loaded the "secondary" page
>>> style or make nice bold headings in the front page blocks.. etc.
>>> 
>>> == TODO ==
>>> 
>>> Sooo... the next thing to do is to decide whether it's more work to try to get
>>> this theme/templates running on our migrated site (www2) or to do the
>>> migration import directly into this (www3) site.  Any pro Drupalers have an
>>> opinion?
>>> 
>>> I've also put the raw files accessible in svn:
>>> /osgeo/marketing/website/design/nov2010-deliverables/theme-OSGeo/themes/osgeo/
>>> 
>>> Register on www3 and shoot me an email to confirm if you'd like in to poke
>>> around.
>>> 
>>> Tyler
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Tyler Mitchell
>>> Executive Director, OSGeo
>>> tmitchell at osgeo.org
>>> +1-250-303-1831
>>> See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September!
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