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Posted by Jo Cook on September 29, 2013
Hi All,
To keep the ongoing costs down, I downgraded the amazon instance that we're using to host the FOSS4G website from a medium to a small. I'd like to start thinking about what we are going to do with the site- old FOSS4G sites generally go to the OSGeo vms to retire but my understanding is that these are pretty simple beasts and we'd have to do quite a lot of work to exactly replicate the site.
Has anyone got any thoughts as to what we could do to make the process of replication easier? I like the idea of making everything as static as possible, but I don't know how achievable that is. A quick google found this post: http://floatleft.com/notebook/archiving-an-old-wordpress-site/ about archiving a wordpress site as plain html- which seems imminently sensible. What do you think about the other aspects of the site? What do we need to keep?
Whatever we do, I vote for something that requires the barest minimum of future work from us :-)
Thanks
Jo
To keep the ongoing costs down, I downgraded the amazon instance that we're using to host the FOSS4G website from a medium to a small. I'd like to start thinking about what we are going to do with the site- old FOSS4G sites generally go to the OSGeo vms to retire but my understanding is that these are pretty simple beasts and we'd have to do quite a lot of work to exactly replicate the site.
Has anyone got any thoughts as to what we could do to make the process of replication easier? I like the idea of making everything as static as possible, but I don't know how achievable that is. A quick google found this post: http://floatleft.com/notebook/archiving-an-old-wordpress-site/ about archiving a wordpress site as plain html- which seems imminently sensible. What do you think about the other aspects of the site? What do we need to keep?
Whatever we do, I vote for something that requires the barest minimum of future work from us :-)
Thanks
Jo
Comments
Barry Rowlingson on September 29, 2013:
I think all the stuff I've done in django can be made static except for (obviously?) adding pledges, voting on the maps, and favouriting presentations, all of which are disabled or pointless now anyway.
Things might break if I've not used relative paths everywhere, depending on how smart the thing that makes the static version is. It might even be doable by some options or wrapper on curl or wget.
Do we need OJS now? Perhaps it has some kind of archive/export so we have the referees reports.
maptember.org can live just about anywhere :)
Barry Rowlingson on September 29, 2013:
Jo Cook on September 30, 2013:
OJS- I couldn't see anything on the interwebs about it- what would we want to keep?
Barry Rowlingson on September 30, 2013:
OJS contains all the referees' reports and decision process for the academic track. What do Franz-Josef and Barend want to do with it is the question.
Barend Köbben on September 30, 2013:
Ian Edwards on September 30, 2013:
connection? You should soon see whether you've got an entirely local
version.
Barry Rowlingson on September 30, 2013:
Thanks, I might try that too, but the easiest thing is probably just to grep the files for http: URLs.
Franz-Josef Behr on September 30, 2013:
Regarding the port to Portland: I am not sure if it makes sense, i.e. if the prefedined letter etc can be exported. We should provide the contact information of thr reviewers.
Addy Pope on October 1, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on December 3, 2013:
Who in OSGeo do I ask to check that I can check in over 400M of stuff to the SVN repo?
Jo Cook on December 4, 2013:
Jo Cook on December 4, 2013:
Jo Cook on December 4, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on December 5, 2013:
So no more changes please. Unless its really important - because even a change to one page is going to mean the whole thing needs restatificating, and then because the sponsors are in random order every page has changed so gets grabbed again, so every page changes in SVN. Ouch.
Steven Feldman on December 5, 2013: