Please ask on IRC. We are working on improving the documentation that is in the git repository (the Sphinx sources under docs/) but currently the IRC channel will be the quickest way to get a GeoNode site set up.
-- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Mathieu Baudier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > first, thanks a lot for this project. > As I had a chance to tell some of you at FOSS4G, I find it very exciting. > I know that it is still at an early stage and I hope that I will be > able to help, at least by testing. > > I downloaded the 1.0-beta and unpacked it, but I don't know what I > should do next in order to install it locally and test it. > I googled a bit and I found this: > http://github.com/GeoNode/geonode > with instructions, but I cannot distinguish what is relevant for a > tarball install (vs. pure developer environment). > > I there another location with install instructions? > Or should I ask on IRC? > > Just a small remark on the 1.0-beta tarball: it doesn't have a > subdirectory, which is kind of non-standard for FLOSS software > releases. > > I did (as usual): > cd ~/dev/floss > wget http://dev.geonode.org/GeoNode-1.0-beta.tar.gz > tar -xzf GeoNode-1.0-beta.tar.gz > > And got the few files scattered around the (many) FLOSS apps > directories I have unpacked over there :) > Not a big deal of course, and the kind of thing that happen when > testing a beta, but I suggest to add a subdirectory in the tarball for > later releases, if possible. > > Cheers, > > Mathieu >
