WebCom Meeting 20060322
Web Site Committee Meeting 2006-Mar-22 Tentative Agenda
Meeting Info
Chair: Daniel Minutes: Jason Conference Phone Number: 1-877-326-2337 conf ID: 320-6046# IRC: #osgeo Date: 2006-Mar-22 (in North America) Time: Wednesday March 15, 19:00 UTC
Agenda Items
Old Business
- Actions from previous meeting
- Daniel to add link to main page template to report page problems to WebComm tracker (?)
- Daniel to look into announcements functionality (?)
- Daniel to add link to project tracker to main site template
- Jason to post announcement/week to the discussion list about logo
- Daniel to send email to discuss and international lists asking for translators.
- Daniel to create news project and rationalize the content
- Daniel to post to discuss asking for a news editor
- Daniel to register IRC channel
- Jason to set up Wiki page for fleshing out user-focus (Done: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus )
- Jason to get in touch with MPG about getting assistance with vetting process (On further thought, Jason doesn't think that this is necessary. Public view and post-contest vetting should take care of any concerns here.)
Web Site Items
- Translations
- Looks like auto-sense does not work for .it translation.
- Maybe we need to consider alternatives? What are they?
- News project
- Structure ?
- Site Focus
- Jody's stories http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus
- Others?
- Get Daniel's templates so we can start doing developer profiles.
- Write/get approved blurbs from existing projects and other non-OSGeo osgis projects (PostGIS, uDig, etc, etc, etc). Link these to developer profiles and user profiles as created.
- Ask discuss for "implementation stories" ?
- Ask discuss for REAL user profiles, to leverage Jody's stories as site content ?
- Landing pages for
- Who: Developers, GIS Professionals, Executive, Researchers, Students, Teachers
- What: Desktop GIS, Web Mapping, Geoprocessing, Toolkits
- These point to the projects (Software, Data, Education, etc...), implementation stories, user profiles, etc)