[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Switching sugarlabs.org to Backdrop CMS

[James Cameron]

Thanks, good question.

In the past year, the changes made to the web site via GitHub have
almost entirely been for style or appearance.

Changes to content have been very rare.

People who we all should expect to provide content, such as Thomas, the
new marketing team, yourself, and the oversight board, have not
provided content.

The Airspace Jekyll theme we use has diverged from the original theme
design, rather than using a cascade, and rather than taking any issues
upstream.

A content management system would help to stop this waste of effort on
style or appearance tweaks.

Backdrop is just one of many.  There are others.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:29:42AM -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
> Could you (or someone) please articulate why you think this will reduce the
> maintenance burden? (I ask with complete ignorance about Backdrop.)
> 
> regards.
> 
> -walter
> 
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:01 AM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Backdrop CMS is a lightweight content management system for
>     non-profits.
> 
>     Backdrop CMS joined the Software Freedom Conservancy recently, and
>     Sugar Labs is also part of SFC.
> 
>     Have we any volunteers interested in converting the web site and
>     content to Backdrop?  It seems to have all the features needed, and
>     may help to release our volunteers to work on more important things,
>     such as Music Blocks, Turtle Blocks, Sugarizer, Sugar, or activities.
> 
>     Steps;
> 
>     * [ ] establish a list of volunteers,
> 
>     * [ ] build a list of requirements and acceptance criteria,
> 
>     * [ ] check for alternate CMS implementations,
> 
>     * [ ] verify we have consensus to proceed,
> 
>     * [ ] verify oversight board is in favour,
> 
>     * [ ] instantiate the CMS,
> 
>     * [ ] copy content from old site,
> 
>     * [ ] maintain content.
> 
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>     James Cameron
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> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [2] http://quozl.netrek.org/
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James Cameron
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