[Evergreen-web-team] draft for irc report

[Jim Craner]

For the past two years, members of the Evergreen Community Web Team have 
been working on planning for the future of the Evergreen website.  We've 
conducted community surveys, analyzed the existing website's usage 
statistics, consulted with key community groups such as developers and 
oversight board members, and issued repeated requests for feedback, 
comments, and volunteer assistance.
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You can learn more about the work that we've done, as well as see the 
results of our surveys and documentation efforts, at the Evergreen Web 
Team page:

http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam
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Most recently, we've been working on a prototype website, located at 
http://drupal.evergreen-ils.com, which we'll use as a foundation for 
building the future Evergreen website.  This prototype is based on the 
very popular Drupal content management system, chosen because of its 
broad feature set, widespread support, and existing Drupal skill set in 
the Web Team.
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Right now, we're building a website that will help community members 
find the information they need easily.  On the back end, we're building 
a system that will allow as many community members as possible to become 
active contributors and easily keep Evergreen info up-to-date.  We're 
also exploring systems that will allow community members to communicate 
and collaborate with each other via the website.
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And we need your help!  We're working on making the first phase of our 
new website live this winter and the website is fairly large.  If you'd 
like to help us work on building a great new website for this community, 
just join the Evergreen Web Team mailing list here and introduce yourself:

http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-web-team
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Questions?  Thoughts?  Concerns?






On 09/12/2012 05:21 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
> Jim and Alexey,
>
> Do you have a plan for the IRC meeting on Friday?  I'd like to make 
> sure we have some blocks of text ready to deliver so the meeting goes 
> quickly.
>
> And FYI, at the Oversight Board meeting there was a general feeling 
> that we should move this project along quickly.  Meaning...there isn't 
> really any doubt about people wanting this to be the future of the 
> Evergreen website.  So we probably need to think strategically about 
> how we can most effectively move forward, get the bones of this 
> website as close to ready as can, involve more people as much as 
> possible, and start moving content.  The sooner this can be the face 
> of Evergreen, the better....that's my impression.
>
> Given that....what do we want to say, ask for, promise at the meeting?
>
> Lori
>
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