RE: Discourse - Free hosting plan for Maps for HTML

Thanks Ted! We’ll need some help from them, in the form of creating a sub-category in the Web Mapping category and sub-categories within that corresponding to the themes of our workshop.  I guess the first order of business will be do decide on a short and sweet title for each, and then to ask for those categories to be created for us to make posts in.

Thanks,
Peter


Peter Rushforth

Technology Advisor
Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation
Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada
peter.rushforth@canada.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca> / Tel: 613-759-7915

Conseiller technique
Centre canadien de cartographie et d’observation de la Terre
Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
peter.rushforth@canada.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca> / Tél: 613-759-7915

From: Ted Guild <ted@w3.org>
Sent: May 29, 2020 9:16 AM
To: Rushforth, Peter (NRCan/RNCan) <peter.rushforth@canada.ca>
Cc: public-maps-workshop-pc <public-maps-workshop-pc@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Discourse - Free hosting plan for Maps for HTML

I asked a couple of the WICG chairs if they thought it reasonable and appropriate to use their discourse instance as discussed on yesterday’s PC call. Received a ‘go for it’ response from Marcos.
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Ted Guild <ted@w3.org<mailto:ted@w3.org>>
W3C Automotive Lead
http://www.w3.org



On May 22, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Rushforth, Peter (NRCan/RNCan) <peter.rushforth@canada.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca>> wrote:

Hi,

I applied for a hosted Discourse instance to support the workshop discussions, before during and after the workshop.

Hopefully they accept the proposal - I’ll keep you posted on developments.

Thanks,
Peter


Peter Rushforth

Technology Advisor
Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation
Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada
peter.rushforth@canada.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca> / Tel: 613-759-7915

Conseiller technique
Centre canadien de cartographie et d’observation de la Terre
Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
peter.rushforth@canada.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca> / Tél: 613-759-7915

From: Rushforth, Peter (NRCAN/RNCAN) <peter.rushforth.nrcan-rncan@gccollaboration.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth.nrcan-rncan@gccollaboration.ca>>
Sent: May 22, 2020 3:35 PM
To: Rushforth, Peter (NRCan/RNCan) <peter.rushforth@canada.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca>>
Subject: FW: Discourse - Free hosting plan for Maps for HTML



From: discoursefreesignups@gmail.com<mailto:discoursefreesignups@gmail.com> <discoursefreesignups@gmail.com<mailto:discoursefreesignups@gmail.com>>
Sent: May 22, 2020 3:33 PM
To: meta+free-signups@discoursemail.com<mailto:meta+free-signups@discoursemail.com>; Rushforth, Peter (NRCAN/RNCAN) <peter.rushforth.nrcan-rncan@gccollaboration.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth.nrcan-rncan@gccollaboration.ca>>
Subject: Discourse - Free hosting plan for Maps for HTML

Hi, I’m writing because you entered your information at https://free.discourse.group and signed up for our Free Hosting plan. If your application is approved, your site should be provisioned within 2 business days. In any case, you'll hear from us soon.

Community Name

Maps for HTML
Project website

maps4html.org
Admin e-mail

peter.rushforth.nrcan-rncan@gccollaboration.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth.nrcan-rncan@gccollaboration.ca>
Existing Community Channels

Forum, Mailing List, Other
Number of Contributors?

30
Source Code Link

https://github.com/maps4html

Why do you need Discourse?

We are going to hold a joint online W3C - OGC workshop on standardizing Web maps. We hope to have global participation, with one to two-hour sessions each day over the course of two weeks. Each topic presented by particpants will fall under a "theme", and talks will be recorded and posted online. We are going to invite participants, and the public, to discuss the topics presented. We would like to use Discourse to host each of these topics; the top post in each topic will be a link to and description of the presentation. Discussion will then follow. The objective of our group overall is to standardize Web maps, hopefully as part of HTML, so that users will benefit. We hope to engage geospatial developers, Web browser and Web standards developers. We are definitely aware of https://discourse.wicg.io/, but we hope to start a mapping specific set of conversations with our workshop, scheduled for late September. If all goes well the conversation will ensue for some time after the workshop, and potentially grow (hopefully, but who knows). Our workshop web site is here: https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ Thanks for your consideration! Peter Rushforth
Desired URL

maps4html.discourse.group

Team Discourse
https://discourse.org