[SAC] www.gdal.org web site

Committees SAC mailing list
1

Folks,

The contract for the machine I host www.gdal.org at iweb.ca is coming up
for renewal and in order to save roughly $1200 USD per year, I'd like to
migrate to OSGeo/telascience hardware. The services I currently host are:

1) www.gdal.org - a doxygen generated website + the primary download directory.
                   this includes the fwtools download area.

2) maps.gdal.org - a few datasets made available through MapServer via WMS,
                    and WCS (SRTM30, and a big landsat mosaic of south america)
                    This isn't critical, but some of my test scripts do run
                    against it.
3) some bittorrent peering for geotorrent.org.

4) home.gdal.org - my personal web site which I'll move to a shared hosting
                    service I've been paying for and not using for a while
                    (one of those $10/month type services).

I have created a trac ticket to track this task:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/81

My main question(s) are:

  o Where should we put these services? I'm thinking putting it www.gdal.org
    on the same blade as download.osgeo.org would be convenient from my point
    of view.

  o Is there an issue with migrating over maps.gdal.org and the bittorrent
    peering? This duplicates work done by the geodata group. I could
    actually just decommission this if it doesn't fit the model well.

I expect Mateusz and I will do the bulk of the actual migration work.

BTW, I'd also like to transfer control of the gdal.org domain to OSGeo
at some point.

Best regards,
--
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org

2

Frank, are you tied to the branding of www.gdal.org, or could you be convinced to have it redirect to gdal.osgeo.org. This wouldn't necessitate using Drupal; it could still be on the download.osgeo.org server serving Doxygen content.

Jason

________________________________

From: sac-bounces@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Sun 2007-03-18 10:02 AM
To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo
Subject: [SAC] www.gdal.org web site

Folks,

The contract for the machine I host www.gdal.org at iweb.ca is coming up
for renewal and in order to save roughly $1200 USD per year, I'd like to
migrate to OSGeo/telascience hardware. The services I currently host are:

1) www.gdal.org - a doxygen generated website + the primary download directory.
                   this includes the fwtools download area.

2) maps.gdal.org - a few datasets made available through MapServer via WMS,
                    and WCS (SRTM30, and a big landsat mosaic of south america)
                    This isn't critical, but some of my test scripts do run
                    against it.
3) some bittorrent peering for geotorrent.org.

4) home.gdal.org - my personal web site which I'll move to a shared hosting
                    service I've been paying for and not using for a while
                    (one of those $10/month type services).

I have created a trac ticket to track this task:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/81

My main question(s) are:

  o Where should we put these services? I'm thinking putting it www.gdal.org
    on the same blade as download.osgeo.org would be convenient from my point
    of view.

  o Is there an issue with migrating over maps.gdal.org and the bittorrent
    peering? This duplicates work done by the geodata group. I could
    actually just decommission this if it doesn't fit the model well.

I expect Mateusz and I will do the bulk of the actual migration work.

BTW, I'd also like to transfer control of the gdal.org domain to OSGeo
at some point.

Best regards,
--
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org/>

_______________________________________________
Sac mailing list
Sac@lists.osgeo.org
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/sac

3

Jason Birch wrote:

Frank, are you tied to the branding of www.gdal.org, or could you be
convinced to have it redirect to gdal.osgeo.org. This wouldn't necessitate
using Drupal; it could still be on the download.osgeo.org server serving
Doxygen content.

Jason,

My current server already serves both gdal.osgeo.org and www.gdal.org off
the same tree of content, and I anticipate that continuing to be the case
whereever we move to.

As long as all www.gdal.org urls continue to work, I wouldn't mind
gdal.osgeo.org becoming the primary GDAL site though this likely ought
to be run past the GDAL PSC.

Best regards,
--
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org

4

Frank

Hosting gdal.org on the telascience servers would be great.
I would like to get the Telascience LDAP replaced with openldap and also use the osgeo ldap for logins at telascience.

John

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

Folks,

The contract for the machine I host www.gdal.org at iweb.ca is coming up
for renewal and in order to save roughly $1200 USD per year, I'd like to
migrate to OSGeo/telascience hardware. The services I currently host are:

1) www.gdal.org - a doxygen generated website + the primary download directory.
                  this includes the fwtools download area.

2) maps.gdal.org - a few datasets made available through MapServer via WMS,
                   and WCS (SRTM30, and a big landsat mosaic of south america)
                   This isn't critical, but some of my test scripts do run
                   against it.
3) some bittorrent peering for geotorrent.org.

4) home.gdal.org - my personal web site which I'll move to a shared hosting
                   service I've been paying for and not using for a while
                   (one of those $10/month type services).

I have created a trac ticket to track this task:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/81

My main question(s) are:

o Where should we put these services? I'm thinking putting it www.gdal.org
   on the same blade as download.osgeo.org would be convenient from my point
   of view.

o Is there an issue with migrating over maps.gdal.org and the bittorrent
   peering? This duplicates work done by the geodata group. I could
   actually just decommission this if it doesn't fit the model well.

I expect Mateusz and I will do the bulk of the actual migration work.

BTW, I'd also like to transfer control of the gdal.org domain to OSGeo
at some point.

Best regards,

5

I have created a trac ticket to track this task:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/81

My main question(s) are:

o Where should we put these services? I'm thinking putting it www.gdal.org
   on the same blade as download.osgeo.org would be convenient from my point
   of view.

Folks,

Based on some positive, and no negative feedback, I'm going to setup
www.gdal.org on the same blade as download.osgeo.org for now.

Best regards,
--
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org