[Webcom] Barn raising: osgeo.org web site

[Ian Edwards]

Hi All,

Plans to recreate the current OSGeo.org website in a newer version of the
Drupal content management system are on the wiki here:

    https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo.org_Web_Site_-_2016_Barn_Raising

This topic is also on the agenda for this week's OSGeo board meeting
(Thursday):
    agenda: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10
    time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=12&day=10&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC

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Many thanks,

Ian

P.S. I anticipate that we may not all agree that a manual migration to
Drupal 8 is the absolute optimal solution --- but please bear in mind that
possible upgrades have been in discussion since 2007...  We're looking for
a solution that can be easily implemented and meets the main requirements
(including removing ad hoc custom PHP and also ensuring solid multilingual
support).



On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Thanks for proposing this.  I agree, we need a "not invented here"
> approach, to make this possible.  It is sure time for this upgrade.  I
> have added your proposal to the next board meeting agenda, Ian could you
> also attend that IRC meeting, to help guide this topic?  See the exact
> time at the top of this page:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10
>
> I would also like to see this plan (including the nodes transferred) on
> the OSGeo wiki.  Could you also start drafting these plans on the OSGeo
> wiki, and share that link with everyone?
>
> One big part of this upgrade is the Service Providers page
> (http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile), which I believe is made up on
> custom PHP.  Please include your plans for this in the wiki (or a section
> on the wiki for this so we can get proposals/ideas for how to improve this
> search tool.
>
> We will of course need to work closely with the SAC committee on this, and
> we can share these wiki plans with them, for their approval.
>
> Thanks again for pushing this.
>
> -jeff
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > With the recent release of Drupal 8, I'd like to suggest we hold a barn
> > raising event for recreating and re-hosting the main osgeo.org website.
> >
> > Why continue with Drupal?
> >
> > - We need a proven CMS that is easy for all users and doesn't require
> lots
> > of work to maintain.
> > -Drupal 8 was developed to put multilingual capabilities first, a core
> > requirement for OSGeo.
> > - v8 includes responsive themes designed for mobiles and tablets and is
> > engineered to be fast by default.
> > - Unlike the OSGeo projects, we need a "not invented here" approach to
> the
> > website where we aim to write little or no code ourselves.
> >
> > How?
> >
> > - The current site has around 1600 nodes.  If, for example, 16 people
> took
> > responsibility for 100 nodes each we could manually copy content without
> > worrying about automating the migration... therefore no risk of
> > transferring anything that's not public, or of copying across old
> embedded
> > PHP code.
> > - A shared google spreadsheet would record which nodes had been
> > transferred. We'd transfer newer nodes first and *create the correct
> links
> > among the translated content*.
> > - The sponsor pages could be created as a custom content type and
> > displayed
> > using built-in drupal views, allowing sorting, searching etc without any
> > custom PHP.
> > - SAC could install a vanilla Drupal 8 on a new server and get inital
> LDAP
> > support working. Webcom would take responsibility for content, theming
> > etc.
> > and discussions via the webcom mailing list.
> > - The board would decide when to transfer to new site.
> >
> > Principals
> > - Avoid writing any custom code (which has prevented upgrades in the
> past)
> > - Install minimal contributor modules, ensure any that are used are
> likely
> > to be maintained long term, e.g. ldap
> > <https://www.drupal.org/project/ldap>
> > module.
> >
> > Is this something that could be discussed at the next board meeting?
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > P.S. The following link provides a good summary of features in Drupal 8:
> >
> >
> https://www.acquia.com/sites/default/files/library/attachment/ultimate-guide-drupal-8v3.pdf
>
>
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