It very much depends what the focus of the website is and how it is going to be used. From a sysadmins point of view i am weary about wordpress (or joomla, drupal) because it requires constant vigilance to install the latest version and patches, which are quite frequent so the initial setup time becomes a moot point over the lifetime of a website.
Before I jump to conclusions which technology to suggest it would be nice to gather requirements so an informed decision can be made. On 1 July 2016 at 11:43, Harry Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm interested in helping out with an OSM UK website. I have a few ideas. > > Actually the thing I'm most interested in is what you're touching on here. > I'm keen to avoid a situation where we have a website festering unmaintained, > or even just having niggling things wrong with it, and no way for me to > pro-actively fix them. > > Being easy to use, as an admin, is good... however that doesn't help > somebody who's not an admin. Given our large group of (quite a lot of tech > savvy) UK OSmers, the contribution model of wordpress might feel a bit > restrictive. In fact I've felt this frustration with some of the past SOTM > websites. It's not so good for allowing the wider community to pro-actively > fix a niggle. > > I guess what I'm saying is... I'm happy with wordpress as long as I am one of > the admins :-) > > A git repo approach is quite a neat contribution model for this kind of > thing. But yeah it's not as easy as editing wordpress. If Rob is going to be > the most pro-active maintainer, and he's not comfortable with github, then > that's certainly a problem with that idea. > > I'm imagining an OSM UK website could be quite heavy on syndicated content. > It could copy in and present these mailing list posts, the forum, and even > have a chatroom (web->IRC). That would help keep it fresh, and relevant to > our community with less onus on a restricted set of admin users (I think this > idea is a thing we should do regardless of what the rest of the site is built > with) > > The key messages of the website will of course depend on the other discussion > we're having here: What are the main goals and key messages of the OSM UK > organisation/community? > > Harry > ________________________________ > From: Rob Nickerson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; Talk-GB <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2016, 18:50 > Subject: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site > > > > Hi Dennis, > > Don't worry about hosting issues when comparing the options. The group should > probably get its own hosting anyway. The Mappa Mercia one is super easy to > use and that's coming from somebody who is not techy at all. > > To set up the wordpress account all that was needed was to sign in to > Webfaction dashboard, select "add new application" and then click wordpress. > Ta-da a fully functional wordpress installation! Since then we added an > application for simple (static) pages. This is how we drive the maps on > mappa-mercia.org. > > > Key things is that whatever we do it is easy to use. The old mappa-mercia > site wasn't and we were dependent on one person. When he left the site died. > Similarly the current state of the map website is github pages system and is > too techie for me. This is frustrating as I now rely on one or two people to > do the updates. You need the barrier to be low so that as many people as > possible can be involved with keeping it maintained. > > > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Best Regards, Christian Ledermann Newark-on-Trent - UK Mobile : +44 7474997517 https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christianledermann https://github.com/cleder/ <*)))>{ If you save the living environment, the biodiversity that we have left, you will also automatically save the physical environment, too. But If you only save the physical environment, you will ultimately lose both. 1) Don’t drive species to extinction 2) Don’t destroy a habitat that species rely on. 3) Don’t change the climate in ways that will result in the above. }<(((*> _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
