[Learnosm-coord] Changing structure - Staging site

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

The existing site structure has done an amazing job with what we all 
know to be a very difficult task: presenting high quality educational 
material in multiple languages in a maintainable way.

Any change to the site structure needs to make improvements in our 
ability to change the site organization, navigation and add sections or 
material easily.

As well as facilitate the use of automated tools to convert the pages to 
other formats, PDF being the most important.

I am going to go checkout the preliminary example now :)

I do in principle support changing the site structure to something else, 
but we just need to be double sure it is as functional as what we have now.

Cheers,
blake




On 1/22/2015 11:36 AM, althio althio wrote:
> Hi!
> LearnOSM team, I need you!
>
> I am in touch with @pyrog who is willing to help with Github, Jekyll
> to make a more efficient site.
> You can read some of his ideas and proposals as issues eg.
> https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/306
>
> You can find a preliminary but working staging site at
> https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/306#issuecomment-70995791
> http://pyrog.github.io/learnosm-sandbox/en/
>
>
> The main change is to use Jekyll as static pages directly in language folders
> https://github.com/pyrog/learnosm-sandbox
> instead of the blog structure with content in folder _posts.
> Because after all LearnOSM is a kind of books with sections and
> chapters, not a dated blog.
>
> This should allow much more flexibility and ease of use for built-in
> or add-on Jekyll features such as layouts, elaborate markdown,
> glossary, export formats...
>
>
> I have now a few questions:
> - Do you agree we can consider this proposal for structure change?
> - (optionally) Why was the blog _posts structure chosen previously?
> - What is Jessica working on (now or planned)?
> - Jessica's work: Does it collide or complement with the current
> actions and proposals of @pyrog?
> - What kind of features would you like to see tested by priority on a
> staging site
>
> - and any insights you may share...
>
> Cheers
>
> Benoît - althio
>
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