070726 Web Presence Conference Call

Owned by Jonathan Markow
Last updated: Aug 23, 2007Version comment
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Agenda

  1. Solicit a designated minutes-taker for this conference call
  2. Review proposed updates to flavor text on uportal.org homepage. Go / No Go on executing change.
  3. Continue web improvement "low hanging fruit" discussion
  4. Discuss homepage/wiki differentiation re audience, purpose
  5. List desired improvements
  6. Brief research report from Andrew Petro: investigated Drupal suitability for uPortal.org CMS platform over recent vacation, thoughts on how its Taxonomy

Also discussed re-organizing uPortal wiki space home wiki page

Conference Call Dial-In Information

Dial in: (800) 981-8084
Guest code: 8861483
Date and time: Thu July 26th 2pm EDT

Prospective Attendees

  1. Jonathan Markow
  2. John Fereira
  3. Andrew Petro

Minutes

The call began at 2pm.  Present on the call:  Jonathan Markow, Andrew Petro.  Jonathan presiding.  Jonathan also taking minutes! 

Following some preliminary pleasantries, the committee, as it were, addressed the agenda, starting with a review of suggested replacement text for the top of the uportal.org home page.  Jonathan requested that we not adopt the current suggestions just yet and asked for an opportunity to solicit additional suggestions.  

Andrew discussed his informal review of Drupal, which has several attractive features, one of which is good blog support.  Jonathan expressed interest in JA-SIG hosting a blog for selected community participants.

Jonathan and Andrew discussed the respective roles of the ja-sig.org website and the JA-SIG wiki, which sometimes seem to fill overlapping purposes.  They agreed that the ja-sig.org site should be primarily serving a marketing purpose and should provide easily accessible information to people outside the community (news, how to contact people, how to download JA-SIG software, etc.).  As such, the site needs considerable modification to become cleaner and simpler, which should be design goals of an eventual re-write.

Jonathan commented that the JA-SIG wiki, because it grew very spontaneously without any common top-down organizational principles, now can be confusing to navigate.  What would be helpful there is a refactoring of the content based on a new information architecture.

For lack of more participants, JJM and AP decided to table further discussion on these topics until a future meeting.

-Jonathan MarkowÂ