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

Thu Sep 15 19:25:20 EDT 2011

++1 everything Kate said especially "June's list is fantastic!"

Here is the list of things to get done one the website - 
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam:website_recommendations

I hope all the folk on the web team have wiki accounts right? : )

Cheers

On 09/14/2011 03:55 PM, Kate Sheehan wrote:
> June's list is fantastic!
>
> I like the idea of adopt a page and agree that we should solicit help from
> the lists. Is the web team officially in charge of the site? If we christen
> someone keeper of a page, does that hold any weight? It seems like a nice,
> decentralized way to manage a site without putting onerous processes into
> place to approve content, but I want to make sure when someone adopts a
> page, they're really adopting it.
>
> Talk to you all tomorrow,
> kate
>
> -----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 Amy
> Terlaga
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:40 PM
> To: 'Evergreen Community Web Team Email List'
> Subject: Re: [Evergreen-web-team] What should the EG Website Team do next?
>
> I don't have anything meaningful to add to June's suggestions.  I agree with
> her approach.
>
> I would add that under the "adopt a page" maintenance suggestion, we solicit
> help via the lists.
>
> Looking forward to using her suggestions as a springboard for discussion
> tomorrow.
>
> Amy
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> -----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: Monday, September 12, 2011 3:57 PM
> To: evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org
> Subject: Re: [Evergreen-web-team] What should the EG Website Team do next?
>
> Thanks, June - great stuff!  (And thanks for going first! :-)
>
> Hopefully everyone else is working on their contributions but in the
> meantime, I'll throw in a couple of small points inline to your suggestions:
>
> On 09/08/2011 12:20 PM, Rayner, June wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Lori has been discussing IdeaTorrent with some folks from Sitka and we have
> a separate instance to use.  She will give us more info at our meeting on
> Thursday.
>
>> 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.
>
> 2, 3, and 4 are all great ideas and definitely achievable given the team's
> resources.
>
> Other folks have thoughts to share?
>
> Thanks again, June!
> -Jim
>
>>
>> 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.ev
>>>> ergreen-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:20
>>>> 1
>>>>
>>>>
> 1
>>>>
>>>> Webteam's Recommendations page:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam:webplan:20
>>>> 1
>>>>
>>>>
> 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:20
>>>> 1
>>>>
>>>>
> 1:section6_recommendations&#files
>>>>
>>>> Talk to you soon! Thanks, Jim
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>>>>
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