[Webcom] [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo upcoming events list needs love

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Ian Edwards <iedwards.pub at gmail.com> wrote:

> Option 2 in detail...
> Temporarily disable the i18n functionality and observe the effect on the
> site.
> I believe the result will be that all visitors will see all the news and
> event content (not limited to their language). Therefore we'll see mostly
> English with the occasional post in other languages.
>
> Disabling a drupal module does not touch the database, so re-enabling would
> put everything back to the current state if the outcome was
> unexpected/undesired.
>

I'm +1 then


> Of course there's always the chance that I could be wrong, especially given
> the amount of customisation the site has. Usually I would make an off like
> copy of the whole site and test the hypothesis in a sandbox first.
>

Should we do a DB dump or something first? I'm not convinced the main
drupal site is being backed up at all any more.

Best regards,
Frank


> On 31 Oct 2013 21:36, "Frank Warmerdam" <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Ian Edwards <iedwards.pub at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Anne, Jeff, Frank
> >>
> >> It looks like Daniel's message to news_item at osgeo.org did not result in
> >> content appearing in the osgeo.org/events list.
> >>
> >
> > Ian / Daniel,
> >
> > I have just added a couple items that came into news_item but haven't
> > addressed Daniel's list. I see Anne may do that shortly.
> >
> >
> >> Given that few people are currently adding content themselves, I'm happy
> >> to make content edits to the web site if you forward through messages
> to me.
> >>
> >> We have two immediate options for ensuring that the events/news can be
> >> seen in all locales:
> >> 1. I can manually create multiple pages - one for each locale -
> initially
> >> containing identical content
> >>  OR ...
> >> 2. We can try Arnulf's suggestion to turn off i18n [1]:
> >>   "One suggestion is to only include one block for news without i18n and
> >> allow people to post in their respective languages. It's not that we are
> >> suffocating in news items anyway and the odd item in Greek, German or
> >> Lithuanian language will just show that we are a truly global org".
> >>
> >
> > I'm confused on how things work with the internationalization, but
> > realistically we aren't going to do much translation of news items or
> event
> > items so I'd like the default to be that the english version is seen if
> > there is nothing else.
> >
> >
> >> We should choose one or the other as they are not compatible approaches:
> >>
> >> Motion: Try turning off the i18n modules, this should have the result of
> >> making multilingual content appear on the site - showing that we are
> truly
> >> global and ensuring that content can be seen in all locales. If this
> fails
> >> then we can workaround the problem by creating multiple pages for each
> item.
> >>
> >> +1 Ian
> >>
> >
> > I don't grasp what this means really, so I'm hesitant to vote on it.  Can
> > you explain the implications a bit more?
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Since this is a temporary workaround it feels like we should take a
> >> decision on the webcom list and just make this happen - I'd like to push
> >> the bigger question of the website upgrade to the board (see discussion
> on
> >> webcom/SAC lists).
> >>
> >
> > This is certainly a webcom decision.
> >
> >  Unless we need money or dramatically different system resources I'm not
> > sure that the board or SAC need to be involved anything about the
> upgrade.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Frank
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/202
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Daniel Morissette <
> >> dmorissette at mapgears.com> 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/ <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
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Daniel Morissette
> >>> http://www.mapgears.com/
> >>> Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
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and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Software Developer