<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all again,<div><br></div><div>I just realised I haven't introduced myself. I am Burke Chih-Jen Ko, Informatics Liaison from the GBIF Secretariat. I am from TaiBIF, the Taiwanese node of GBIF, and I joined the Secretariat since 2011.</div><div><br></div><div>My next steps are to start to populate the project wiki on <a href="http://dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/ALA">http://dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/ALA</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'll approach things in this order:</div><div> i) Defining the wiki structure and creating stub pages</div><div> ii) Documenting the installation procedure </div><div> iii) Documenting the general high level software architecture and how the components relate</div><div> iv) Basic tutorials on how to load and index data</div><div> v) A basic tutorial of how someone might start to restyle the vanilla application (basic intro only)</div><div> vi) A guide on how to build the components from source code</div><div> vii) FAQ</div><div> </div><div>I would be very happy to receive assistant in any or all of this, and for others to help provide documentation on more advanced topics, such as using a different taxonomic backbone.</div><div><br></div><div>As we progress, I will work with the ALA to try and ensure outdated documentation that exists on other wikis are deprecated and we start to build a comprehensive and accurate set of instructions.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll be working approximately 2 days a week on helping shape up the ALA documentation.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to working with you all.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Burke</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 23, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF] <<a href="mailto:bko@gbif.org">bko@gbif.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Words cannot describe how impressed I am to be able to get the ALA site up and running locally in 24 hours with Vagrant and Ansible as a freshman to these technologies - well done ALA devs!</div><div><br></div><div>I found some issues during the installation and I've filed them as issues in Jira:</div><div><a href="http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-31">http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-31</a></div><div><a href="http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-32">http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-32</a></div><div><a href="http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-33">http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-33</a></div><div><a href="http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-34">http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-34</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think ALA-33 is the critical one to address earlier.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll keep the list posted about the progress of the documentation.</div><div><br></div><div>Again thanks for your great work!</div><div><br></div><div>Burke</div><div><br></div><div>Informatics Liaison</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>GBIF Secretariat</div><div><br></div><div>Tel: +45 35 32 15 11</div><div>Fax: +45 32 32 14 80</div><div>Mobile: +45 24 66 88 80</div><div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:bko@gbif.org">bko@gbif.org</a></div><div>Skype: burkeker</div><div><a href="http://community.gbif.org/pg/profile/burkeker">http://community.gbif.org/pg/profile/burkeker</a></div></div>
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