[Webcom] An introduction and question about the OSGeo Journal.

[Landon Blake]

I forgot to mention I'm going to be working on a California Chapter
web site soon, so the Journal content could be hosted there as well.

Landon

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Landon Blake
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response Frank.
>
> You wrote: "Which userid would you like to use, surveyor or sunburnedsurveyor?"
>
> I believe I use "surveyor" to log into the wiki. If I have two (2)
> userids, then I should delete the sunburnedsurveyor one.
>
> You wrote: "Have you logged into the www.osgeo.org Drupal site before?"
>
> I think I did that once to edit the page here:
> http://www.osgeo.org/journal
>
> You wrote: "We have a content type called "kkhtml" which is pretty
> much straight HTML.
>  We can try with that and see how it goes.  It might be good for us to
> communicate in IRC while you are getting started."
>
> That sounds like it would work.
>
> You wrote: "BTW, where does this live and what tech is it using?
>
>   http://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal
>
> /me establishes it is living on the WebExtraVM.
>
> Is it possible we should just publishing via that site rather than
> via the www.osgeo.org drupal site?"
>
> To be honest, I have no idea. OJS was set up by Tyler. I found the
> site difficult to use in a lot of scenarios, and I haven't used it at
> all for the last two (2) volumes. I don't think it is a good idea to
> move forward with that site because can't rely on Tyler for tech
> support like I could before.
>
> I suppose if I learn Drupal I might be able to help with other OSGeo
> web site maintenance tasks. This probably makes the most sense.
>
> It isn't that important to have the Journal articles posted on the
> web, I just thought it would be a nice extra. I guess I posted here to
> see if I could get the gears of the web committee moving again, more
> that for any other reason. I don't want to be a burden, and I'm
> willing to learn a bit if I can help out. I know nothing about Drupal,
> but I'm very comfortable with HTML/CSS/Javascript.
>
> Landon
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm currently serving as the volunteer editor of the OSGeo Journal and
>>> I just subscribed to the webcom mailing list. I'm interested in
>>> posting the upcoming articles for the Journal in HTML on the OSGeo web
>>> site. Is that possible?
>>>
>>> Do we have someone maintaining the current web site? I heard it runs
>>> on DJango. Is that true?
>>>
>>
>> Landon,
>>
>> The web site is using Drupal (PHP based).
>>
>> Which userid would you like to use, surveyor or sunburnedsurveyor?  Have
>> you logged into the www.osgeo.org Drupal site before?  If not, I won't be
>> able to modify your priveledges so please do so.
>>
>> We have a content type called "kkhtml" which is pretty much straight HTML.
>>  We can try with that and see how it goes.  It might be good for us to
>> communicate in IRC while you are getting started.
>>
>> BTW, where does this live and what tech is it using?
>>
>>   http://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal
>>
>> /me establishes it is living on the WebExtraVM.
>>
>> Is it possible we should just publishing via that site rather than
>> via the www.osgeo.org drupal site?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
>> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
>> warmerdam at pobox.com
>> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Software Developer
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