[okfn-discuss] Re: Fw: INSPIRE Democratic Process 1/2006

Thu Jan 26 23:46:37 UTC 2006

Test design:

http://www.ffii.org/~zoobab/bh.udev.org/filez/projects/publicgeodata/

I need to install a mediawiki and polish the design.

I think maybe it is possible to write a small petition module with
mediawiki.

Will book publicgeodata.org tomorrow.

Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> [060125]:
> Benjamin, Rufus, this sounds good.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:51:07AM +0000, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> > >I would think OKFN would be able to offer hosting for this. And if
> > >that's not possible, i would offer space on the shared system that runs
> > >http://freemap.in . You mentioned a php based piece of petition
> > >software that may be good; phppetition? something better?
> > 
> > OKFN would host this no problem. We could even fold it in to the 
> > existing geo project. You already have full access via sudo (I believe) 
> > so feel free to poke around.
> 
> I would totally give over the http://okfn.org/geo/ namespace, front page
> etc to this if that is appropriate, as INSPIRE is the main reason that
> this started in the first place. If this is something that deserves
> its own DNS entry too, something a little more catchy perhaps than
> "handsoffpublicdomaingeodata.org" then i would be happy to cough up
> for one and point it there.  
>  
> moinmoin is a nice wiki, it worked well for Wsfii. Rufus, i think that
> you have an interesting setup for hosting moins, whereby they all use
> the same system installation, but have different styling+config. I
> have no idea of the most kforge-nature way of spawning a new moin on
> the OKFN system. A pointer to any normal-process docs, or scripts,
> that should be followed, would be appreciated very much.
> (there's a scattering of open geodata pages over the main OKFN wiki,
> but i guess this would merit something that stands alone).
> 
> > >Any other OKFNers have time and energy to help set up the software?
> > 
> > I'd really like to but I am already overwhelmed with other stuff i am 
> > having to produce at present. Come March I may have more time ... :(
> 
> dear Rufus, just by being there, as a stable core around which stuff
> circulates, you help an inordinate amount. this conversation wouldn't
> be happening at all were it not for the support you have offered. 
> thankyou.
> 
> 
> -jo

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