[Webcom] [OSGeo-Discuss] Barn raising: osgeo.org web site

[Ian Edwards]

Hi Gert-Jan, Maxi,

I agree with both of you.

In terms of the design I'd encourage you to get involved with discussions
(and implementation..!) via the webcom list as we get underway.  The aim
will be to provide a number of theme choices and to improve the design of
the site substantially (on both desktop and mobile devices).

Maxi - we can style the site in anyway, regardless of the back end being
drupal.  The style of the landing page can be a focus of additional effort,
and could be static, cached, or database-driven on each visit.

Hopefully there will be a lot of discussion around how we're communicating
the content as we go forward, but the main focus is certainly the
technology upgrade.  If we only achieved a site that looked like the old
site, but was on upgraded software then this would still be a very
desirable outcome.

Ian


On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:

> Dear All,
> actually I think we need something more fancy and modern with respect to
> what we have now.
>
> At least for the landing page, the rest could be more functional and be
> Drupal or whatsoever you think is better from a technical point of view.
>
> In my opinion we need a re-design of the website and of the communication.
>
> Maxi
>
>
>
> 2015-12-10 10:09 GMT+01:00 Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) <
> gert-jan at osgeo.nl>:
>
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> Is this update a pure technical one, or are there also plans to give the
>> site a new fresh & young look?
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Gert-Jan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian Edwards schreef op 09-12-2015 14:38:
>>
>>> Excellent - thanks Jeff.
>>>
>>> All - please keep sending in requirements for the remake of the main
>>> osgeo.org [2] website.  It may make sense to move specifics of this
>>> discussion to the webcom mailing list, but please reply on discuss
>>> with any major issues to this proposal overall, or with any
>>> alternative suggestions prior to tomorrow's board meeting.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jeff McKenna
>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2015-12-07 6:31 PM, Ian Edwards wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>> <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
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Please send replies to the message to *discuss**@lists.osgeo.org
>>>>> [1]
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://lists.osgeo.org>* and not to the other lists included on
>>>>> this
>>>>> message to prevent the discussion from being split across the
>>>>> discuss,
>>>>> board, sac and webcom lists!
>>>>>
>>>>> 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).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've added more requirements to the wiki as well:
>>>>
>>>> - Allow easy way to find communication channels:
>>>>
>>>> mailing lists
>>>> IRC
>>>> OSGeo Slack
>>>> OSGeo HipChat
>>>> OSGeo Gitter
>>>>
>>>> -jeff
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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