On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:59:56AM +0300, Ciprian Manea wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean. > > I find the overall OAM documentation to be fairly "distributed", as: > > - the www/wiki is stale for some months (ping Cristiano Giovando, oam.org) > - the www/wiki (still) includes past plans that could send newcomers > on false trails > - there are several good hints/pointers spread over various posts in > the mailing list > - ... > > btw: where can I see the latest doc regarding the (current) OAM architecture?
http://docs.oam.osgeo.org/ > On the "infra" side it would be nice to have a list of building blocks > with their ownership/donor, i.e. OAM is relying on: > > - www.openaerialmap.org, owned by CG, hosted at BlueHost > - mailing list hosted by ..., available at ... > - source code hosted by GitHub at ... > - latest documentation published at www/doc > - server #1 can be donated by NN > - server #2 can be donated by NN > - storage TB can be donated/used from NN > - AWS (credits donated) by NN for powering the catalog service/API > - ... I don't think that OAM is in a position where donations of servers, AWS time, or anything else, is an appropriate spending of resources. It needs more development work before being swamped with resources. (The problem with accepting donation of resources is that people expect you to use them; I don't believe OAM can use additional resources effectively at this time.) I'm not aware of anyone who is having trouble coding on OAM due to lack of CPU cycles; round tuits are much more lacking. > For newcomers, I think up-to-date documentation is a must have in > order to quickly identify the gaps and allow any contributor to make > the most of their time/work on OAM. Yes, I agree. The sphinx docs -- linked above, and also available / editable in Github -- should be the canonical representation of these things. (Other resources -- like the wiki -- have not proven to be effective in my opinion, and I don't intend to use them.) Patches, pull requests, and forks welcome. -- Chris > P.S. I'm new, so I have questions. many :-) > > > Thanks, > Ciprian > ---- A* > > > http://oam.osgeo.org/ > > > > is up and running, and has been for more than 6 months; it has > > thousands of images in the catalog, and tools in > > > > https://github.com/oam/oam > > > > are written to run against it, producing output like: > > > > http://processedoam.s3.amazonaws.com/mit-knight-foundation-sm.jpg > > http://processedoam.s3.amazonaws.com/4000pxdemo.jpg > > > > Although there is no hosting being done 'at' OAM, part of the > > revamp and design is so that there doesn't need to be: other than > > the catalog, all the pieces can be trivially distributed, meaning > > there is no need for large scale centralized hosting. -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ talk mailing list t...@host134.hostmonster.com http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
