Assistance Launching a Geograph Project

We - as in the team behind maintaining the Geograph Britain and Ireland project/website - would like to extend the following offer to any anyone looking to create a new Geograph project covering another country.

The code itself is free, but there are a lot of considerations to get going. We hope to make the process a little easier by providing 'getting started' hosting - one less thing to worry about!

Website hosting

Geograph Project Ltd offers...

• Website Hosting, on shared hosting server
  + php/mysql/apache/sphinx suitable to run a geograph style website
  + several 'GB' of disk space for photos etc. (more by negotiation)
  + bandwidth to run a small/medium successful site
  + FTP and SSH login
  + Free Daily backups
  + Free SSL service
  
  
• Email service, with a Plesk Login to administrate it.
  
  
• Informal tech support
  
  

... on the basis it's not entirely unlimited. If/when the site grows big enough to be costing us money, we can talk and work out how to cover the costs.

Also

• optional use of a Link domain.
• Free code hosting on svn.geograph.org.uk (the code itself, is already 'free', but need somewhere to host your own 'fork' of the codebase)
  
  

Developer Assistance

Our own developers can help...

• assistance customizing/forking the Geograph codebase. Not offering to do the work to set it up nor maintain, but will help out.
  
  
• Informal help with publicity (including mentioning the site on geograph.org etc)

What would still be needed...

Alas there is still lots of work to be done...

• Coordinator(s) - to setup and coordinate, publicize the project
  
  
• Developer(s) - to customize the code to the country/location
  Would include 'sourcing' GIS/mapping data, grid information, gazetteer etc.
  
  
• Moderator(s) - to approve images etc
  
  
• Contributors!
  
  
• a domain - if not using a geograph.org subdomain
  
  

Contact us: Link to get started.

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