On 15 May 2008, at 02:54, Michelle Olson wrote: > Hi all, > > We had a 2-hour face-to-face meeting last week so I could get educated > on all of the issues that touch website content. Find what I learned > below. (I will setup a conference call for all of us to meet when > Alysson returns from vacation, so you know I haven't forgotten about > that request.) > > Attendees: > Jim Grisanzio > Derek Cicero > Bonnie Corwin (first 1/2) > Michelle Olson > Bill Rushmore > Eric Boutilier (first 1/2) > > Agenda: > 0. OpenSolaris web site application > 1. Splash pages for launch > 2. Poll data, wiki, and re-structuring communities > 3. Navigation > 4. Best Practices > 5. Submit Content > > Notes: > 0. OpenSolaris web site application > > The last version upgrade to the OpenSolaris web application (webapp) > was > delivered in Nov. 2006, to v.1.82. Since that time, we've been keeping > the lights on and integrating new components based on the priorities > for > new things like bugzilla, polling, code review, and the effort to open > source the web application code. We are about two months away from > being > ready to upgrade the webapp to v1.91. This has a new version of jive > and > some other goodies that we need in order to be fully up-to-date. > > 1. Splash pages for launch > > I put this on agenda to enable any residual feedback to come out and > to > ask if the portals were going to translate the new pages. Jim felt > that > because the splash pages are temporary and because there is a lot of > planning happening for new site infrastructure to handle localization, > we should not begin an effort to have the splash page content > translated > by the portals. We did agree to let the splash pages 'soak' for two > months, so we'll revisit those on July 5th. > > Infrastructure for the portals is a non-trivial project, so we start > with requirements, here is a beginning: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/portals/portals-v2/ > > We tried not to spend too much time on this topic, but it was hard. It > is a huge topic with many issues. Jim and Alan are leading this up > with > our G11n partner engineers and we'll communicate more as we know it. > > 2. Poll data, wiki, and re-structuring communities > > I had this on agenda because the voting members of OSOL put addition > of > a wiki as 5th priority in 2007 poll and 4th in priority in the 2008 > poll. Re-organization of communities and projects also ranked 4th in > 07 > poll. The OGB started discussing re-organization of the communities > and > projects at yesterday's meeting. Watch ogb-discuss for more on that > coming later this week. > > The discussion of a wiki for the website content meeting was declared > out-of-scope because we didn't have the right people on the call, so > we > didn't pursue it. But, I went back through the mail on the topic from > last year and put together a requirements candidate summary page here: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/wiki_requirements/ > > To be sure, the wiki/CMS need still exists, I'll report out when I get > time with the folks who are just now picking up the evaluation based > on > the requirements gathering we did last year. > > 3. Navigation > > Navigation of the web site is an issue that has two components, > taxonomy > and editorial. Taxonomy is the site map and two forms of navigation > (left-navigation bar and upper-right icons). Editorial is how we > pull-through links to components in running text or in banner adds on > the right side. Omniture data can inform us a great deal about where > people go on the site. But, it can't tell us much about how they get > there. I agreed to pour over the omniture data for the site in > preparation for preparing studies (usability/feasibility) on the > navigation elements. > > In parallel to reviewing the statistics, I'll begin an audit and > reviews > of the common pages of the site using website-discuss list. You'll > soon > see review requests from me starting with the Roadmap, Site > Guidelines, > About, FAQs and then all the pages on this list: > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Website_Editorial_Board > > This morning, Bonnie updated the Roadmap here: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ > > 4. Best Practices > > Related to the topic of editorial functions of the site, we talked > about > crafting some best practices for communities and projects to improve > the > usability of their areas of the site. My opinion is that using the 4 > buckets for each project or community (learn more, find help, get > source, participate), like we did with the splash page, could go a > long > way toward improving and making a more consistent user experience. > I've > done this with the docs community and I think it helps, but I'm open > to > ideas about best practices beyond this, and I think I'm on the hook to > produce something along those lines and do some outreach to projects > and > communities to implement. > > 5. Submit Content > > Just as a final masochistic self-flogging, I broached the subject of a > 'submit content' button. This is a bad idea on so many levels > because it > doesn't scale and would be impossible to manage properly and it > thwarts > a number of other processes we already have in place for contributions > of code, docs, etc. However, it was suggested that possibly user > profile > pages could be altered to allow members to upload content of their > own, > which didn't fit on a project or community. This could include > pictures, > podcasts, presentations, etc. Also, a couple of folks have mentioned > brainstorm.ubuntu.com as a good way to manage a stream of submitted > ideas, so maybe we could do something similar for our project in > future.
brainstorm.ubuntu.com is based on an opensource php project of the ubuntu community. We could probably just use it with templates that fit our site ? with the current .com .org split this is for me something rather targetted for the .com side of things, letting people float their comments and ideas regaring 2008.05 and what .11 should be and contain cause it seems like a better place than the overwhelming float of emails on mailing lists. chers Michal > > > Thanks, > Michelle > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > website-discuss mailing list > [email protected] Michal Bielicki OpenSolaris Core Contributor Software Porters Community Leader _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
