[Evergreen-web-team] What should the EG Website Team do next?

[Jim Craner]

Hi everyone,

As promised, this is your mid-week/post-holiday reminder of your EG Web 
Team homework.

*** Homework: write a 1-4 paragraph narrative of what you see the Web 
Team's structure, processes/policies, and
activities look like going forward.  Submit this to the Web Team list 
for discussion and comment on everyone else's
narrative so that a rough consensus is arrived at before our next meeting.

Who wants to go first?  :-)

Thanks!
Jim

On 09/01/2011 02:14 PM, Jim Craner wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We had a great discussion today about the future of the Web Team and what that may look like.  Please review these
> (brief) notes and do the homework assignment listed at the end -- our goal is to have a very active conversation on the
> Web Team mailing list over the next two weeks about this.
>
> Thanks!
> Jim
>
> Attending: John, June, Jim, Kathy, Roni, Amy, Steve, Kate
>
> ** Importance of "Creation of formal website team" recommendation
>
> * Who can change/edit?  Authority?
> * Promote people changing/editing/adding content
> * Who is vetting changes?  Little technical errors get fixed via wiki/commenting mechanisms.  Big changes are arrived at
> via Web Team consensus with community input where appropriate.
>
> * Going forward: loosey-goosey or formal team?  Formal team is requirement for the Big changes (implementing
> centralized platform) but policies/efforts can be formalized
>
> * Count the changes Anoop made based on input from the Existing Site Improvement Committee as a big success for
> our efforts!
>
> * Oversight Board?  Governance Committee?  Answer: oversight entities are deliberately going hands-off so don't
> expect top-down strategy.
>
> * Hackfest at annual conference -- Web team spends the year figuring out what could be done by a team in a concerted
> effort at an annual Website Hackfest and what stuff they can just do as small chunks throughout the year themselves.
>
> * Management spectrum: gatekeepers vs. cheerleaders/facilitators
>
> *** Homework: write a 1-4 paragraph narrative of what you see the Web Team's structure, processes/policies, and
> activities look like going forward.  Submit this to the Web Team list for discussion and comment on everyone else's
> narrative so that a rough consensus is arrived at before our next meeting.
>
> *** Next meeting (tentative pending Anoop's ability to attend) is Thursday, September 15th, same time (1100pdt /
> 1200mdt / 1300cdt / 1400edt).
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>>   -------Original Message-------
>>   From: Jim Craner<jim at chicagotech.org>
>>   To: evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org<evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org>
>>   Subject: [Evergreen-web-team] Today's meeting - agenda and info
>>   Sent: 01 Sep '11 11:24
>>
>>   Hi everyone,
>>
>>   We're having our "welcome back" EG Website planning meeting in a couple of hours.  Info and draft agenda below!
>>
>>   2:00pm EST /11:00am PST
>>   Conference call number 866-365-4406 / 3693433#
>>
>>   Webteam Wiki page:
>>   http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam
>>
>>   Webteam Draft "Big Web Plan Doc" page:
>>   http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam:webplan:2011
>>
>>   Webteam's Recommendations page:
>>   http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam:webplan:2011:section6_recommendations
>>
>>   (Note: there are two sections on the Recommendations page that we'll discuss - "People&  Process" and "Website")
>>
>>   Newest Visual Aids for the "Website Recommendations" section are here:
>>   http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam:webplan:2011:section6_recommendations&#files
>>
>>   Talk to you soon!
>>   Thanks,
>>   Jim
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