[Webcom] [SAC] Fwd: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo upcoming events list needs love

[Ian Edwards]

Hi Arnulf, Daniel,

I'm happy to take on a more active role, I've promised to do a test
deployment of Drupal 8 [1]
(the focus of this D8 release is even better multilingual support - Drupal
already leads the field in this area)

Transifex has been suggested, both for OSGeo Live and for translations on
the main site [2]
Pootle [3] has been mentioned a couple of times in the past few years, and
was recently dropped into the mix again on the webcom mailing list - I've
no idea about Pootle and haven't looked at it yet.

Finally, Alex suggested that we may be better off with a Django site - I've
not read about internationalization in Django, but here's a relevant link
[4].

We're short of resources to evaluate all options extensively, my feeling at
the moment is to see how the D8 evaluation goes and then decide whether to
pursue it - or we can make a final decision to leave Drupal behind.

I'm a bit reluctant to hack the old Drupal site to workaround
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/202 when the time would be better spent
working on a properly engineered migration, but if the D8 evaluation fails
then I'm happy to invest some energy to get a reasonable fix for #202.

Frank's given me access to the new VM  to evaluate a possible migration -
and there'll be sufficient time over the holiday season - but a remit from
the board to pursue this (in the order suggested above) would really help
before committing the necessary time to this.

Ian

[1] http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Drupal-8-td5080183.html
[2] https://www.transifex.com/
[3] http://pootle.translatehouse.org/
 [4] http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter19.html

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Arnulf Christl <
arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net> wrote:

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> Daniel,
> this is only a quick fix and should be replaced by something more
> sustainable. If you really want to maintain these events they would have
> to be entered in all languages we support (thanks to the dead old Drupal
> version we have there seems to be no quick fix).
>
> Plus News is already a bottleneck...
>
> The longer I see the trouble we have with the web site the more I think
> the Wiki is the better place for this type of stuff.
>
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
>
> PS: Changed from Discuss to Your Eyes Only + SAC. Maybe somebody gets
> enthusiastic and takes on the job, I don't want to quench any thirst for
> volunteer work...
>
> There are also tickets associated with this:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/202
>
> Opened 6 years ago. Gulp!
>
> Maybe we really should put some effort into reviving WebCom and giving
> it broader remit. The current OSGeo web site is anti-marketing. I mean
> we are supposed to be tech gods, right?
>
> On 30.10.2013 18:15, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> > Dear OSGeo Community (CC: news_item at osgeo.org),
> >
> > The OSGeo upcoming events list badly needs love, it is essentially empty:
> >
> > http://www.osgeo.org/events
> >
> > It would be great if we collectively could adopt a more proactive
> > approach to keeping this list up to date.
> >
> > For now, here are a few events I could think of, could
> > news_item at osgeo.org please add them to the list:
> >
> > - FOSS4G 2014, Portland, Sept 8-13, 2014, http://2014.foss4g.org/
> >
> > - Vienna Code Sprint, March 24-28 2014,
> http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/
> >
> > - LocationTech Tour, Nov. 4 to 14, 2013, http://tour.locationtech.org/
> >
> > - FOSS4G-Europe, summer 2014??, http://foss4g-e.org/
> >
> > - FOSSGIS 2014, March 19-21, 2014, http://www.fossgis.de/
> >
> >
> > Other event organizers and community members, please forward your
> > OSGeo-related events info to news_item at osgeo.org
> >
> > Thanks to all
> >
>
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