[Evergreen-web-team] draft for irc report

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Alexey,

This is mostly great!  I do find the last part about the Phase 1 tasks,
features and pages confusing.  You say:

Following is an approximate list of tasks, features and pages for the Phase
1 rollout:
* Design: colors, graphics, typography, layout. What you see on the current
prototype is just a pre-canned template that ships with Drupal, not our
recommendation. Alexey Lazar agreed to be primary on that, will work
closely Jim Craner fro Drupal-specific needs.
* Features: news/blog, possibly the calendar and maybe site search.
* Content: main landing page, about, downloads, documentation (just top
level), FAQ, community/communicate/contribute.

Can I suggest we say instead:

For our Phase 1 rollout (hopefully in time for the conference), we are
shooting for having the following areas ready: :
* Design: colors, graphics, typography, layout. What you see on the current
prototype is just a pre-canned template that ships with Drupal, not our
recommendation. Alexey Lazar agreed to be primary on that, will work
closely Jim Craner fro Drupal-specific needs.
* Content: all the basic landing pages and any sub-pages that have content
already written on the current site.  In other words, no new content.
* Features: news/blog aggregator, possibly the calendar, site search.



On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich <
alexey.lazar at mnsu.edu> wrote:

> Web team and others, please review the draft for the web prototype report
> for the community meeting tomorrow. I added a couple of sections to Jim's
> draft:
>
> 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 requests for feedback, comments, and
> volunteer assistance.
>
> ---
> 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
>
> ---
> Most recently, we've been working on a prototype website, located at
> http://drupal.evergreen-ils.org/, 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.
>
> ---
> 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.
>
> ---
> In the past few months, we discussed some of the issues with the current
> Evergreen web presence, and how we might want to start addressing those
> issues with the new site. For example, we want to eliminate orphaned
> content and make sure that content is updated and maintained in a timely
> way. To help achieve that, we agreed to create the role of "Content Editor"
> to:
> * Actively seek out and/or add content for their sections
> * Assist folks who want to contribute
> * Keep an eye on any updates to their section and, as needed, improve any
> updates supplied by another contributor
> * Handle any periodic or time-sensitive updates (for example, the person
> or persons who edit the downloads section would be on point whenever a
> release is cut)
> (Galen, thanks for formulating the role)
>
> We also agreed that any new features will be dependent on availability of
> volunteers to maintain those features.
>
> ---
> Our next step is to firm up a roll-out date for the initial (we are
> calling it "Phase 1") release of the new site and recruit some volunteers
> to help with migrating content and other work. What we can deliver in the
> end will depend on how many volunteers we get and what we can reasonably
> accomplish within the time period.  We think that it is feasible to
> populate the new site with content from the current site, review and update
> that content (with some exceptions) and have the new site go live in April
> of 2013.
>
> ---
> Following is an approximate list of tasks, features and pages for the
> Phase 1 rollout:
> * Design: colors, graphics, typography, layout. What you see on the
> current prototype is just a pre-canned template that ships with Drupal, not
> our recommendation. Alexey Lazar agreed to be primary on that, will work
> closely Jim Craner fro Drupal-specific needs.
> * Features: news/blog, possibly the calendar and maybe site search.
> * Content: main landing page, about, downloads, documentation (just top
> level), FAQ, community/communicate/contribute.
>
> ---
> We need your help!  If you are currently responsible for maintaining any
> of the areas we want to tackle for Phase 1, or are new and want to get
> involved, or just have some wishes or ideas, use the Web Team mailing list
> to let us know how/where you would like to help:
>
> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-web-team
>
> ---
> Questions? Thoughts? Suggestions? Concerns?
>
> ---
>
> Alexey
>
>
> On Sep 13, 2012, at 15:53 , Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Kathy!  Will you be at the IRC meeting tomorrow?
> >
> > Also, if you (or any other Web Team folks!) get a chance to edit any of
> the pages on drupal.evergreen-ils.org with an explanation of what will go
> there....that would be useful.  I think it will help people understand
> where we're are trying to go with the site.
> >
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > Lori Bowen Ayre //
> > Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group
> > Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
> > (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre at galecia.com
> > Availability:  http://tungle.me/lori.ayre
> >
> > Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering,
> > workflow optimization, and materials handling
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > I'm not in on the meeting, but just wanted to mention you'll need to
> correct the http://drupal.evergreen-ils.com URL.
> >
> > Kathy
> > Kathy Lussier
> > Project Coordinator
> > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
> >
> > (508) 343-0128
> > klussier at masslnc.org
> >
> > Twitter:
> > http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
> > On 9/13/2012 3:00 PM, Jim Craner wrote:
> >> 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.
> >> ---
> >> 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
> >> ---
> >> 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.
> >> ---
> >> 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.
> >> ---
> >> 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
> >> ---
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >>> Lori Bowen Ayre //
> >>> Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group
> >>> Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
> >>> (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre at galecia.com
> >>> Availability:  http://tungle.me/lori.ayre
> >>>
> >>> Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering,
> >>> workflow optimization, and materials handling
> >>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Evergreen-web-team mailing list
> >>>
> >>> Evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org
> >>>
> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-web-team
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Evergreen-web-team mailing list
> >>
> >> Evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org
> >>
> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-web-team
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Evergreen-web-team mailing list
> > Evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org
> >
> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-web-team
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Evergreen-web-team mailing list
> > Evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org
> >
> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-web-team
>
>
> Alexey Lazar
> PALS
> Information System Developer and Integrator
> 507-389-2907
> http://www.mnpals.org/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Evergreen-web-team mailing list
> Evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org
> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-web-team
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.evergreen-ils.org/pipermail/evergreen-web-team/attachments/20120913/f704cfc1/attachment-0001.html>