[Webcom] FOSS4G logo/link on osgeo.org home page

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Tue Jul 2 13:34:27 PDT 2013


seems to work now, carry on :)

-jeff

On 2013-07-02 3:20 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> Thanks.  I still see an issue here for some reason:
> http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 2013-07-02 1:57 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> OK, I've found a couple of issues.
>>
>> 1) I used a relative path to the png which fails for pages other than /.
>>  (fixed)
>>
>> 2) It seems we have two "themes" for the site "osgeo" and "osgeo2".  I am
>> not clear which was applied where but osgeo2 did not have the FOSS4G block
>> enabled.
>>
>> I tried enabling the block for the osgeo2 theme, but this theme had a green
>> background so it was very unattractive.  Instead I have disabled the
>> "osgeo2" theme at:
>>
>>   https://www.osgeo.org/admin/build/themes
>>
>> and now the "osgeo" theme appears to be applied everywhere.   I'm not sure
>> if the osgeo2 theme was deliberately different or if that was just
>> something left over from some experiment in the distant past.  Things
>> should be working now.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Jeff McKenna
>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Frank, there seems to be a problem with that FOSS4G logo block, on
>>> any page other than the homepage (example:
>>> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html)
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Jeff McKenna
>>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Thanks for adding the logo block Frank.  I also added an href to it.
>>>>
>>>>     Happy Canada Day everyone.
>>>>
>>>>     -jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On 2013-06-26 12:06 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>>     > Jeff,
>>>>     >
>>>>     > I'm working on it now.  I've stolen the logo from the mapserver
>>>>     page, but
>>>>     > will have to scale it down a bit.
>>>>     >
>>>>     > Best regards,
>>>>     > Frank
>>>>     >
>>>>     >
>>>>     >
>>>>     > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Jeff McKenna
>>>>     <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>>>>
>>>>     >> wrote:
>>>>     >
>>>>     >> Another important task for the Web Committee.  Please add it to
>>> your
>>>>     >> tasks list (widget on homepage containing the next FOSS4G event
>>>>     logo).
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> Thanks,
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> -jeff
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> On 2013-02-08 4:13 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>>>     >>> Hi webcom,
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>> I would like to suggest that you add a FOSS4G 2013 logo and link
>>> to
>>>>     >>> 2013.foss4g.org <http://2013.foss4g.org> on the osgeo.org
>>>>     <http://osgeo.org> home page.
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>> Actually, I thought that there was one and just realized that
>>>>     there is
>>>>     >>> none.
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>> For the longer term, I also would like to suggest that you
>>> consider
>>>>     >>> adding a place on osgeo.org <http://osgeo.org> (maybe bottom of
>>>>     the home page or in a
>>>>     >>> dedicated events page) to promote local (and legit) FOSS4G
>>>>     events around
>>>>     >>> the world who send us a logo and URL.
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>> The OSGeoLive team maintains a list of 2013 events that we could
>>>>     start
>>>>     >>> from:
>>>>     >>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History#2013
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>> Thanks in advance
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>
> ___________


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