Web Presence Requirements

Overview

This is a starter page to collect requirements or content which should be included as part of the web presence redesign effort.

Requirements for jasig.org site

Purpose of the JASIG

A block of content which describes the purpose of JASIG

Activities

A block of content which describes the activities in which JASIG is engaged.

JASIG News

An aggregate of News items that are general JASIG related (i.e. annual conference announcements) and
feature news items specific to JA-SIG projects (i.e. uPortal Training Available...)

Governance

A separate page which describes JASIG Governance, board members, linkage to project liasons, etc.

JASIG Membership

A page which describes how to become a member, a list of members

How do I birth a new project?

A page which describes the procedure for birthing a new JASIG project.

Where does the website end and the wiki begins

~awp9 wonders whether these instructions should be out of scope for the website itself. While it is important at a marketing level that it be clear that one can birth a new project, doing so is relatively infrequent, relatively technical, and needs to be kept up to date. It more fluidly connects with the collaboration happening in the wiki than with the static statements of the website. ~awp9's gut reaction is that the website page should be just a stub that links out to what we regard as more wiki than website.

~jayshao argues that a reasonably fluid system for manipulating the website results in a dynamic where location of content is less influenced by how often it changes, and more appropriate to determine based on whether or not it's a collaboratively edited document – as some "official" content is probably better suited to basically a broadcast approach.

Donor Opportunities

How to give money to JASIG.

Withdrawn for consideration by Board representatives

Aaron Godert and Jonathan Markow have withdrawn this item for further consideration. Not for initial inclusion in revitalized website.

Contact Information/Mailing List

How to contact JASIG, links to mailing lists. Contact Us form.

Credits/Supports

Give credit to commerical supporters.
(What about credit to non-commercial volunteers?)

Awards

What awards has JASIG or its products won?

JASIG Bookshelf

This is an idea that Jonathon had. It would be a list of books recommended by the JASIG contributors. Book cover images would link to Amazon such that JASIG would get a kickback for each book ordered via the referral mechanism.

(Interestingly, uPortal's developer books channel, once upon a time, did this, with the kickbacks going to IBS for a few minutes. The kickback feature was removed at the project administrator's request. -~awp9)

~jayshao I also put this in the category of "unlikely to generate enough revenue to be worth it". The idea of a virtual professional reading club is perhaps very attractive – pick a technical book (DDD, Effective Java, GoF Patterns, etc.) and have a themed discussion on a mailing list or in IRC. That seems to better build us as a community of practice and support our professional development and networking missions much more strongly than a passive list of books. In general, I think any linkages we can build between in-person events will only strengthen our community.

External linkages

link to all JA-SIG project sites (uPortal, CAS, Hypercontent)
link to JASIG wiki