Web Site Committee Motion

I, Frank Warmerdam, move that a "Web Site Committee" be designated to manage the foundation web site and related resources. The initial committee membership shall include:

• Daniel Brookshier (chair)
• Howard Butler (hobu@iastate.edu)
• Fred Warnock (fwarnock@dmsolutions.ca)
• Perry Nacionales nacional@cbs.umn.edu

The web site committee has responsibilities to:

• maintain and update the foundation web site.
• recommend appropriate website technologies (ie. wiki)
• decide and implement a site wide style guideline.
• support foundation projects in use of portal technologies and common style.
• adding and removing committee members as needed.
• report back to the board (via Chair) to the board monthly on activities and issues.
• pursue translation of portions of the site into other languages.

Notes:

• The web site committee should operate a public mailing list for discussing changes so that non-members can make recommendations, and follow discussions.
• Major decisions (ie. wiki tech, web site styling) should be forwarded to the board.
• The web site committee should not "create foundation policy". That is, (non-website) policies of the foundation should be decided by the board, and published by the web site committee. The committee can produce new documents that reflect existing policy or are non-controversial in nature.
• All members of the committee should have SVN access to update the web site.
• The committee does not have control of web pages for foundation projects with the exception of pseudo-projects like "board.osgeo.org" and such that are still core foundation activities.

Additional Notes on the Collabnet infrastructure:

There are four key areas of the site to be managed:

* The home page, header, footer, left nav, and right community news column. This should also include all content related to the site, education, and foundation documentation.
* The left nav for project pages.
* General domain administrations and settings.