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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yes – thanks Burke and it will be good working with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Martin, Dave (CES, Black Mountain)
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 26 May 2014 1:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF]; Ala-portal@lists.gbif.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Doherty, Peter (CES, Black Mountain); La Salle, John (CES, Black Mountain)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Ala-portal] Smooth installation and some issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">This is great news. I just wanted to say welcome aboard from the ALA team. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Getting the documentation right will be essential to any project trying to reuse this software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:ala-portal-bounces@lists.gbif.org">ala-portal-bounces@lists.gbif.org</a> [ala-portal-bounces@lists.gbif.org] on behalf of Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF] [bko@gbif.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 May 2014 01:08<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Ala-portal@lists.gbif.org">Ala-portal@lists.gbif.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ala-portal] Smooth installation and some issues</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi all again, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">My next steps are to start to populate the project wiki on
<a href="http://dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/ALA" target="_blank">http://dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/ALA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I'll approach things in this order:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> i) Defining the wiki structure and creating stub pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> ii) Documenting the installation procedure <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> iii) Documenting the general high level software architecture and how the components relate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> iv) Basic tutorials on how to load and index data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> v) A basic tutorial of how someone might start to restyle the vanilla application (basic intro only)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> vi) A guide on how to build the components from source code<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I'll be working approximately 2 days a week on helping shape up the ALA documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Looking forward to working with you all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On May 23, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF] <<a href="mailto:bko@gbif.org" target="_blank">bko@gbif.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I found some issues during the installation and I've filed them as issues in Jira:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-31" target="_blank">http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-31</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Again thanks for your great work!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Skype: burkeker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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