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

Rayner, June raynerj at einetwork.net
Thu Sep 8 13:20:02 EDT 2011 

Hi Jim 

Thanks for the reminder.     Here's what I would suggest.    Do any of these make sense?

Here's my suggestions on next steps, and why I'm suggesting them

1.  Technical / Platform changes.   Based on the recommendations that we have put forth, what technical or platform changes do we need to make to implement those recommendations?    What resources are required to do this?     If the resources required are more than what the current web team can provide, who could potentially provide those resources and how can we approach them?    For example, if we were going to implement an idea percolator, is there an existing tool that does this (like IdeaTorrent that Sitka was using)?    Where can it run?   What's needed to install it?   What costs are involved?

2.  Ongoing maintenance.   The current EG web site SWAT team has pioneered the process of doing relatively small changes.    Maybe to split the work up, we can ask individuals if they can "adopt a page" for ongoing maintenance, with the overall plan and guidelines in mind.

3.  New Content.    If we've identified new content that we want to add to the site, and assuming there are no technical barriers from #1, have a "content wanted" page and ask people if they have existing content that could be adapted or if they would work on creating the new content.
   
4.  Major site overhauls.    If someone has a large block of time to work on a major overhaul, that's great.   But probably not realistic.     This might be tackled in an Evergreen website hackfest, possibly as part of the Evergreen conference.

Best regards,

June

-----Original Message-----
From: evergreen-web-team-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org [mailto:evergreen-web-team-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of Jim Craner
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 5:20 PM
To: evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org
Subject: [Evergreen-web-team] What should the EG Website Team do next?

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:201
>> 1
>>
>>   Webteam's Recommendations page:
>>   
>> http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam:webplan:201
>> 1: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:201
>> 1:section6_recommendations&#files
>>
>>   Talk to you soon!
>>   Thanks,
>>   Jim
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