[ZOO-PSC] Proposal to move the workshop materials to GitHub

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear friends,

I would be more bold and propose to move everything to git :)
We could use http://git.osgeo.org and keep a mirror of all the code in
GitHub too (for visibility).

Please have a look at a similar conversation happening these day in the
PostGIS devel mailing list:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2017-August/026268.html

Best,
Angelos


On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan <
raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

> Hi Gerald,
>
> Thanks for your hard work with the workshops and presentation
> at FOSS4G-Boston.
>
> I think we faced this issue of very slow download when we did the
> workshop in India this May too. Perhaps this was also because
> of slow Internet we had.
>
> From what you describe below, I think it makes a lot of sense
> to move the workshop material to github.
>
> Regarding the MapMint user guide which is already available
> on github, will it be too difficult to have a separate directory
> of each language. For example
>
> mapmint.github.io/userguide-fr/index.html
> mapmint.github.io/userguide-en/index.html
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8/17/2017 10:48 PM, Fenoy Gerald wrote:
>
>> Dear ZOO PSC,
>> I come to you today to start a discussion that I should have started
>> earlier about moving the workshop material on GitHub.
>>
>> I hope this can lead us to take a decision then to perform the migration.
>>
>> So, you may have noticed that I did not commit any workshop material
>> since 2015 and the web site is saying that the workshop material for the
>> 2015 is coming soon for some years now, we have the material ready but I
>> don’t want to add more images in trunk and make the svn checkout even
>> longer that it is already. Indeed, the issue with the current structure of
>> our SVN is that everything is located in the trunk. Nevertheless, it
>> implies that when you download the ZOO-Project source it takes lot of time
>> cause you have also to download the workshop materials of the previous
>> year, it takes long time because the workshop material contains many screen
>> captures that are heavy. So ok we may also consider to minimize the size of
>> the image or something like this but I think it will be a waste of our
>> precious time.
>>
>> In addition to that, you may have noticed that we have some GitHub
>> account for storing the ZOO-Project presentations. One obvious advantage
>> from my point view, till GutHub exists, is that it let us publish the HTML
>> pages as accessible content by using the gh-pages branches.
>>
>> You may also have noticed that we have also committed the MapMint
>> documentation and workshops also on GitHub, for the workshop we did not
>> setup any publication yet but still for the MapMint user guide we did, it
>> can be accessed from here: [1].  On this specific case, one interesting
>> thing is also that we provide support for translating the documentation
>> from French (the original language for the MapMint documentation) into
>> english [2]. Not everything has been translated and the translation may
>> contains some mistake in it (mainly syntaxe issue) still it may be of
>> interest to have the ZOO-Project workshop translated in other language if
>> it may help anyone.
>>
>> I don’t want to make motion yet cause I think that we should mainly
>> remove the workshop material only because of the images that are changing
>> every year but don’t give anything more that they give in the previous year
>> it is just screenshot presenting the final result of the WPS Services
>> implementation. The documentation is not that huge to be downloaded, but we
>> may probably also consider moving the documentation to GitHub also. But for
>> this one, I am not very sure.
>>
>> I already know that you will give me relevant feedback. I hope you will
>> take the time to consider this question and we can discuss this matter. If
>> we can arrive to a conclusion then we can take the appropriate actions to
>> make the move.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://mapmint.github.io/userguide-fr//index.html
>> [2] http://mapmint.github.io/userguide-fr/en/index.html
>>
>>
>> Gérald Fenoy
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
Charter Member, Board of Directors
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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