Extend/integrate/possibly reimplement opendefinition.org website

[rufuspollock]

• Migrate from Wordpress to Github pages #47 - switch to github pages
• Merge https://github.com/okfn/licenses with this repo ... #7 - Integrate licenses.opendefinition.org
• Collect existing license texts here #2 - Integrate texts of licenses
• Integrate versioned open definition
• Have a blog or not (?)

[mlinksva]

What does "integrate licenses.opendefinition.org" mean? Link to record there where license mentioned on opendefinition.org? This could be a place to put "text of licenses". Make opendefinition.org driven by data in licenses.opendefinition.org, such that former is only representation (cool, but lots more work)?

There's probably a lot of work that could be done on licenses.opendefinition.org regardless. For example, it'd be nice to use same short identifiers as https://spdx.org/licenses/ where there's overlap, and same style where not.

I don't see much need for an opendefinition-specific blog, which would rarely see posts, but if blog-per-project is generally how OKFn does it, great.

[rufuspollock]

By integrate I would mean have on the same domain (or share at least same theme). e.g. licenses.opendefinition.org could be at /licenses/.

Re blog: agree it is not needed IMO.

Re license ids: would definitely be nice to consolidate only issue is that the ids are already in use somewhere in the wild so we could need a backwards compatibility plan.

[rufuspollock]

@mlinksva PS I've just made sure that everyone with access to this repo has access to http://github.com/okfn/licenses

[mlinksva]

Renamed for clarity: Extend/integrate/possibly reimplement opendefinition.org website

Good idea, but needs some people's committed time to do.

[rufuspollock]

Note we could merge licenses repo and this repo without merging opendefinition.org and licenses.opendefinition.org ...

[rufuspollock]

OK, I'd like to revisit this and make it 2 specific suggestions:

1. We merge https://github.com/okfn/licenses into this repo. I'd suggest that we relocate most of the content in that repo to /api (though possibly moving the index.html page to our licenses/ directory)
2. We change opendefinition.org to run off github pages using this repo (with licenses.opendefinition.org relocated to opendefinition.org/api/ probably ...)

I don't think this is a lot of work and I'd volunteer to help move this forward.

@hlainchb @mlinksva @enyst what do you think ...

[mlinksva]

Sounds good to me.

[mlinksva]

Migrating content to gh-pages is easier than I'd though. Unstyled, but content from wordpress is now extracted into gh-pages in this repo. I've set CNAME to beta.opendefinition.org, hopefully OK sysadmins can set up DNS for that, I think this:

beta.opendefinition.org. 3592 IN CNAME okfn.github.io.

Edit: now at http://beta.opendefinition.org

[rufuspollock]

@mlinksva booted a dedicated issue for github pages migration - see #47

[rufuspollock]

@mlinksva as i understand it of the remaining checkboxes above #2 is probably WONTFIX as we don't want to dupe the other project. #7 is in progress but is a bit item and can be dealt with separately.

If this sounds right, can we note this and close this as DONE

/cc @hlainchb

[mlinksva]

Makes sense to me.

[rufuspollock]

FIXED.