Hey Ross,
Thanks for reviving this discussion! I'm with you, lets just get this
started and see where it goes.
I agree with you that the site should try not to duplicate content that
more naturally exists on one of the other resources you identified.
Traditionally, the confluence wiki has been used to keep fluid
information like documentation up to date because of the relative ease
of editing. The new CMS takes virtually all the pain out of maintaining
a website, though, so understanding and utilizing the CMS should be at
the center of whatever we end up doing.
I think that if the main website contains high-level introductory
information (e.g.: stuff that doesn't regularly change, like our mission
and reason for being), links to resources we are a good fit with, and an
interactive demonstration, that would be a great start. In my opinion,
user guides could end up staying on the Wiki, or might migrate to the
site... whichever proves easiest to maintain as a community.
-Andrew
On 06/29/2012 02:04 AM, Ross Laidlaw wrote:
Hi Adam,
I was just looking through the SIS dev archives and spotted your email from a
while ago. It's a great idea to update the SIS website. I looked back over
the thread on the mailing list between you, Chris and Andrew from February. I
don't have a lot of experience in this area, but if there's anything I can do
to contribute, please let me know and I'd be happy to help.
Some of the suggestions from Chris/Adam/Andrew from various threads included:
- news/highlights of releases
- user guides
- links to other open source geospatial project websites
- have a demo with a map (on the website)
- architectural diagrams of SIS
map suggestions/references:
- Development Seed
- Leaflet
- TileMill
- etc...
some other suggestions:
- a new logo?
(issue SIS-31 was filed by Chris to capture the website update -
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-31)
At the moment we have the proposal [1], Confluence wiki pages [2], the
incubator site [3] and the maven built site [4]. Plus maybe some others?
I guess we shouldn't repeat or overlap too much. Is that what you guys meant
when you referred to using the CMS? Is that the Confluence site?
Ross
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SpatialProposal
[2] cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/sis
[3] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/sis.html
[4] http://incubator.apache.org/sis
On 22 April 2012 19:28, Adam Estrada<[email protected]> wrote:
Has anyone done anything to work on the public SIS website? I know we talked
about it a couple months ago but haven't heard anything lately. I would still
like to coordinate with other folks to get it a facelift.
Adam
