Date: May 30, 2006 5:37:55 PM PDT
Subject: [General] Portal Project: last feedback round
Hi folks,
I think we've reached the point of having a good proposal for changes to the various web sites, which I will refer to as the portal for the rest of this message.
A big part of our effort has been to get a good taxonomy for the content in the portal.
We've done this by looking at how we are actually using the wiki and the various websites (
www.osafoundation.org and the project landing/home pages).
The general workflow that we have observed is that content is making its way into the wiki via the notes pages of individuals.
As the content on those pages becomes more concrete, it migrates to pages related to a project or to pages related to a particular group.
Some information from those project or group pages needs to be collected and presented to specific audiences for the portal (project contributors versus people new to Chandler versus the press, and so on).
By reorganizing the portal content around this workflow, we hope to make it easier for portal consumers to differentiate between official OSAF thinking and ideas which are still in rough form.
To make this more explicit we plan to have a number of areas in the portal, corresponding to product and/or group pages.
You can see the areas and their taxonomies at <
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/WikiReTaxonomy>.
You can also see the home pages that Mimi has mocked up for the various areas. The goal of these pages is to be jumping off points into the content of a particular area and to display current information about the status of an area. The visual layout of these pages is designed to help portal consumers gain a high-level understanding of the structure of the project, and it's organization. The status portion (right column) of the pages is now sectioned into NEW, NOW, DEFERRED, and ARCHIVE as a way of helping people to quickly understand the state of a project or team. A portal user will be able to see what tasks/projects are currently in focus, what information has gone out of date, and things that have been deferred until later We plan to use some wiki automation to generate the status portions of these home pages. In addition to the area home pages, we will have specialized home pages, like the wiki main page and the project landing/home pages, which will assemble information that is aimed at particular audiences.
Please take some time to look at the page that I linked above. This is the last round of feedback before we start implementing this design. If we don't need to make any changes to the design then we will start to create some of the new wiki areas and migrate existing content and create new content where necessary.
Ted
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