Jeff asked in the #geonode IRC channel for suggestions related to chef-geonode and the Amazon Web Services AMI.
Here are the ones that came to my mind: #1 Switch to an EBS based instance because it would make it easier to upgrade to new versions of the AMI and keep data on a persistent drive instead of the volatile first generation Amazon instance. #2 Add the django logging configuration to local_settings.py #3 Install the native Imageio/jai drivers for GeoServer. This has great impact when handling raster data. #4 Use the 1.0.1 release (or current master) instead of GeoNode 1.0, especially because of the new way media is handled. Best, Ariel.
