WebCom Meeting 20060719

= Web Site Committee Meeting Agenda =

Meeting Info
Chair: Jason IRC: #osgeo When: 18:00 (6 pm) UTC on July 19th

Agenda Items

 * Reviews the News Queue process and make sure everyone is ok with it.


 * Do we want to decommission the news.osgeo.org project?


 * Do we want to send all posted announcements to the announce@mail.osgeo.org mailing list too?


 * What should we replace the main page core text with when we remove the news items?


 * Web site redesign?
 * Need to understand the LOOK project.
 * Any volunteers?


 * Front page refactor
 * Too much focus on news. Need sections for Member Spotlights (developers, users, etc).


 * Thoughts about assigning project subdomains to member projects (geotools.osgeo.org) that have their own infrastructure. We did it for wiki so should be technically possible.


 * Removal of "Register or Log In to Subscribe" link for mailing lists?


 * Should we have responsibility for platform choice?

Minutes

 * Voted on decommission News Project - carried
 * Frank to move Spotlights to main web site
 * MapGuide isn't pointing to dev spotlight anymore


 * press@osgeo.org offered to MPG; not sure if he confirmed


 * Remove RSS link ; Get CN to add date to RSS feeds


 * Voted on mirroring news to announce@ - carried


 * Voted on avoiding changes to the site layout via LOOK - carried


 * Voted on assigning osgeo subdomains (project.osgeo.org) directly to projects for use on their webservers if requested. - carried


 * Lots of discussion on design; proposal to spend large part of next meeting talking about what we needed from a designer was accepted.

Transcript available at: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2006-07-19.log  starting at around 10:00