Editing in progress
Obviously, this page is not complete. ~apetro is in progress trying to seed this page with some thoughts. Feel free to comment or jump in.
Values
- Transparency: 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.
- Resilience: 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.
- Marketability: The JA-SIG website should be attractive, pleasant, and effective in communicating the JA-SIG message.
- 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.
Goals
From these values result certain goals:
- 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 content management system. Hypercontent is esoteric, poorly adopted, and has poor usability. Migration to a more mainstream opensource 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