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The group also briefly discussed the potential for meeting up during the upcoming conference. Andrew let people know that he would be looking for informal discussions around how to make the "hot" (frequently edited) parts of JA-SIG's websites easier to edit. He related the anecdote of Faizan asking him to post a news item announcing the 2.5.3.1 release and pointed out that it's pretty silly that Faizan needs to ask others to update the website even though he has locally at Rutgers at least two presumed experts on the Hypercontent system, Scott and Jason.
[JSG:Scott followed up on this minutes item to note that he does not claim to be an expert on Hypercontent outside the scope of the CAS space, assisted Faizan with updating the downloads pages only as a professional courtesy, and does not see himself as responsible for or much involved in any aspect of uPortal, including its web presence. Andrew noted in reviewing this minutes that he wishes it to be clear he meant and means no criticism of Faizan for his apprehensions about using Hypercontent to update the website. Andrew sees the system as presently very hard to use and so sees it as totally understandable that people are apprehensive about using it to update the site. He desires, however, that the answer to this problem not be that we twist our process (several release engineers with worthy items to announce) to conform to the tool (hard to use and collaborate, so few people empowered to post news.) That it instead be adopting/twisting technology (easier to use mechanisms to add news or to update uPortals in production listing) to meet the needs of our process (distributed contribution to website).]
This call like the previous tried to go over the allocated 60m. Brief discussion of whether to extend the call as a matter of course. Consensus to keep with 60m calls.
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