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Comment: eased back on Hypercontent bashing

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  • Good design of information architecture. Much has been articulated about the importance of information architecture in effective website design. If a new ja-sig.org is to succeed, it needs to be well-information-architected in keeping with the named values.
  • Migration to a more mainstream open source Re-evaluation of our choice of content management system. Hypercontent is esoteric, poorly adopted, and has poor usability. Migration to a more mainstream opensource and selection of a content management system will increase uptime, confidence in our solution, ability to recover from problems, and will set the stage for a more effective and featureful website going forwardwith properties that will contribute to the success of JA-SIG's tactical and strategic web presence needs – the purpose of this bullet point is to articulate that CMS selection is an in-scope goal for this project. Fuller discussion on the page for this purpose.
  • Effective branding: well-recognized, well-used, well-factored re-usable logos to better establish a JA-SIG brand except without the dash and no longer standing for Java anything: JASIG, a brand without literal meaning, associated with and now meaning an organization of institutions and individuals interested in using and collaborating upon open source software in support of higher education.

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  • Information architecture and website design
  • Creation of a new identity and visual identity
    • Removal of dash in JA-SIG
    • JA-SIG no longer stands for Java Architectures, as we move beyond Java to more general open source and collaboration in higher education IT
    • New tagline. If we're not "Java Architectures Special Interest Group", then one is our non-acronymical tagline?
    • a compelling statement of scope for what JASIG does, where it has come from, where it might go
  • Design and development of a brand and logos
    • Logo for JA-SIG itself
    • Logo for JA-SIG Member Institution
    • Logo for JA-SIG Commercial Affiliate
  • Adoption of a new CMS (or re-adoption of present CMSs in ways that meet the goals)
    • Migration of existing website content into a new CMS demonstrating the new brand, logos, and especially information architecture (this is not necessarily automated migration, since the amount of content we're talking about here is quite modest)
  • ja-sig.org and uPortal.org [See comment -Jonathan]
  • Implementation of a Contact Us page / section including a web form for sending email. This to be initially implemented to email the Board, who will then route the messages where they really need to go.

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  • mechanism via the website for someone to financially contribute to JA-SIG (idea tabled per AG and JJM)
  • IT initiative to eliminate dash from domain name of our various sites and services?