Re: [Ala-portal] Smooth installation and some issues

26 May 2014


      Hi Burke,
Welcome!
I hope we can contribute both in the process of ALA deployment as in
software documentation.
Best Regards,
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Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing (Biocomp)
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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2014-05-26 0:22 GMT-03:00 David.Martin@csiro.au:

>  Hi Burke,
>
>  This is great news. I just wanted to say welcome aboard from the ALA
> team.
>  Getting the documentation right will be essential to any project trying
> to reuse this software.
>
> Cheers
>
>  Dave Martin
> ALA
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* ala-portal-bounces@lists.gbif.org [
> ala-portal-bounces@lists.gbif.org] on behalf of Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF] [
> bko@gbif.org]
> *Sent:* 24 May 2014 01:08
> *To:* Ala-portal@lists.gbif.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Ala-portal] Smooth installation and some issues
>
>  Hi all again,
>
>  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.
>
>  My next steps are to start to populate the project wiki on
> http://dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/ALA
>
>  I'll approach things in this order:
>   i) Defining the wiki structure and creating stub pages
>   ii) Documenting the installation procedure
>   iii) Documenting the general high level software architecture and how
> the components relate
>   iv) Basic tutorials on how to load and index data
>   v) A basic tutorial of how someone might start to restyle the vanilla
> application (basic intro only)
>   vi) A guide on how to build the components from source code
>   vii) FAQ
>
> 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.
>
>  As we progress, I will work with the ALA to try and ensure outdated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.
>
>  I'll be working approximately 2 days a week on helping shape up the ALA
> documentation.
>
>  Looking forward to working with you all.
>
>  Best wishes,
>
>  Burke
>
>
>  On May 23, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF] bko@gbif.org
> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  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!
>
>  I found some issues during the installation and I've filed them as
> issues in Jira:
> http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-31
> http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-32
> http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-33
> http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/ALA-34
>
>  I think ALA-33 is the critical one to address earlier.
>
>  I'll keep the list posted about the progress of the documentation.
>
>  Again thanks for your great work!
>
>  Burke
>
>  Informatics Liaison
>  GBIF Secretariat
>
>  Tel: +45 35 32 15 11
> Fax: +45 32 32 14 80
> Mobile: +45 24 66 88 80
> E-mail: bko@gbif.org
> Skype: burkeker
> http://community.gbif.org/pg/profile/burkeker
>
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