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It should be easy to understand what is going on with JA-SIG, where the software is, what progress has been made, how to get involved, whom to contact. It should be clear who the committers are on various projects, who makes up the JA-SIG Board and various steering committees and working groups. The website should showcase the JA-SIG membership and commercial affiliates.

The JA-SIG website hosting infrastructure should not be fragile. It should be well understood how to bring it back online when it goes down. It should be backed up regularly and have good uptime.

The JA-SIG website should be attractive, pleasant, and effective in communicating the JA-SIG message.

This seems to imply ease of editing in oft-edited ways. Common communication needs should be easy to meet. Uncommon needs should be possible to meet. In particular, it should be easy to post about news, newsletter availability, events, releases. It should be easy to edit the memberships of boards, committees, committer lists, etc.

JA-SIG is about open source in higher education, and so we value open source and prefer using open source solutions. Value for open source extends beyond Java, so JA-SIG desires to disassociate itself from its original acronym meaning.

Content should be current. This seems to imply easy to update.