[ic] New project site underway @ interchangecommerce.org

[William Carr]

Hi, Jon.

Thank you for your efforts and for Phin’s. 

Onward to the future!

-Bill

> On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:02 AM, Gert van der Spoel <gert at 3edge.com> wrote:
> 
> Good initiative Jon, think it will surely help in SEO and overall
> visibility of Interchange. 
> 
> I'd not say goodbye to icdevgroup.org domain though, at least for a while
> and also keep e-mail addresses as @icdevgroup.org for now (where relevant).
> But once interchangecommerce.org is ready for a public announcement then to
> alias icdevgroup.org to the new site.
> 
> It would of course be great for the community if there'd be a new site as
> well focused on IC6 with some section about legacy IC5 and such. It's going
> to bring quite a shift I believe, but hopefully many will jump the IC6
> bandwagon getting it to evolve faster than IC5 has done in the past years.
> Difficult, no doubt.
> 
> Good luck to you and Phin, I'll be looking on the sideline and cheering you
> on (and keep up with the mailinglists for as long as needed of course). :)
> 
> CU,
> 
> Gert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org
> [mailto:interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Jensen
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 8:22 AM
> To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> Subject: [ic] New project site underway @ interchangecommerce.org
> 
> Interchange community,
> 
> For over 12 years now we have hosted the Interchange project site at the
> domain icdevgroup.org. It was never a pretty name, but it worked.
> 
> However, people have a hard time remembering it, and it is about as bad as
> can be for search engines / SEO -- not one real word in there, nothing about
> ecommerce or Perl or Interchange.
> 
> Back in 2013 I talked with a few people in the Interchange community (Jure
> and/or Stefan, if I recall correctly) about this. We brainstormed and I
> registered interchangecommerce.org and started setting up a clone of the
> existing project site rewritten under Dancer.
> 
> I stalled out in my effort to do that, but then this past summer I asked my
> son Phin to pick it up. He did, and got much of the content migrated, made a
> few templating simplifications for navigation, and set up Sphinx for
> searching. The Sphinx search is now broken, and the content has gotten out
> of date as the old production site has been updated.
> 
> But today I set up nginx and Starman to host the site, so that it's at least
> functional enough to mention here and gather feedback from everyone:
> 
> http://www.interchangecommerce.org/
> 
> Would you all be in favor of moving to this new domain? It's got two real
> words, would help SEO, and gives a fresh start to the project HQ as IC6
> starts to get more traction.
> 
> I presume nobody objects to moving the project site to Dancer, since Phin
> and I are the primary maintainers of the content on the old one now anyway.
> :)
> 
> There will still be work to finish the Dancer site, move the documentation
> and demos and Mailman, etc. After it's moved over, I would love to see a new
> design for the site and updated content about Interchange 6, but I decided
> not to hold up the work over that stuff. One thing at a time.
> 
> I would also like to serve the new site entirely over HTTPS and SPDY, which
> is the way the world is going and which will serve an ecommerce project like
> this well. GlobalSign is offering free SSL certificates for open source
> projects, so that may be worth applying for:
> 
> https://www.globalsign.com/ssl/ssl-open-source/
> 
> Anyway, I wanted to solicit community feedback before putting much more work
> into this. Please let me know what you think.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
> 
> 
> --
> Jon Jensen
> End Point Corporation
> https://www.endpoint.com/
> 
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Bill Carr
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