FOSS4G2008 Site Upgrade

Rough notes for managing the Conference System upgrade for the FOSS4G 2008 web site. -- OCS v2.0.0.1 was the first version of OCS used for the conference web site at http://conference.osgeo.org. The upgrade will bring the site up to OCS v2.1 which addresses many of the outstanding issues note on the FOSS4G2008 Committee Issues page.

Upgrade will happen in three stages: set up a skeleton copy under the new version of the software, copy the final database over, then switch the web server settings to point conference.osgeo.org to the new site.

Install Shadow Site

 * 1) Set up v2.1 instance at http://conference-dev.osgeo.org  -- Tyler
 * 2) Main administrators to check that they can log in properly -- Gavin, Graeme, Inge, ???
 * 3) Managers to check files/documents are up to date (cross off below when complete): -- Gavin, Graeme, Inge, ???
 * 4) Logos
 * 5) PDFs
 * 6) CSS
 * 7) ... other static content files
 * 8) Note missing file or problems here:
 * 9) header logo not appearing

Final Database Copy
After the Early Bird Registration date - June 20th:
 * 1) Backup the production database -- Tyler
 * 2) Import the database into the 2.1 instance -- Tyler
 * 3) Managers to confirm import worked well -- Gavin, Graeme, Inge, ???
 * 4) Check number of registrants
 * 5) Check paper and workshop listings

Switch Addresses
Once above is complete:
 * 1) Switch web server aliases to swap the subdomain names of the two OCS instances. -- Tyler
 * 2) Update both OCS config.inc.php files to provide new site URL -- Tyler
 * 3) Test/check registration processes -- Gavin, Graeme, Inge, ???