WebCom Meeting 20060315

Web Site Committee Meeting 2006-Mar-15 Tentative Agenda

Meeting Info

Chair:  Daniel
Minutes:  Jason
Conference Phone Number: 1-877-326-2337 conf ID: 320-6046#
IRC:  #osgeo
Date:  2006-Mar-15 (in North America)
Time: Wednesday March 15, 19:00 UTC

Agenda Items

Old Business

• Actions from previous meeting
  • Jason to remove users mailing list (done)
  • Daniel to add categories, and make it the default for the projects view (done)
  • Daniel to add link to template to report page problems to WebComm tracker (?)
  • Daniel to look into announcements functionality (?)
  • Daniel to copy CSS into Documents and Files for review (?)

Web Site Items

• Logo contest live
  • What next?
  • Who wants to vet?

• Translations
  • Need an email to discuss and intl list requesting translators

• News
  • News Editor?
  • News schedule?
  • Press releases
    • Explicity link to multi-language? (quite possible, just link to .html.ja page)
  • Main content
    • Coordinate through international list

Minutes

• Precious action items
  • annoncements still in the works, all others complete

• Action: Daniel to add link to project tracker to main site template
• Action: Jason to get in touch with MPG about getting assistance with vetting process

• Resolved: Submit final list to board
• Announcement/week to the discussion list about logo (Jason)
  • Posted on last Sunday
  • How many entries
  • Good ones received, but more needed.
  • Prizes
  • Open to all

• Vetters
  • Jason, Perry

• Translations
  • news project (with SVN access)

• Action: Daniel to create news project and rationalize the content :)

• Action: Daniel to post to discuss asking for a news editor

• Action: Daniel to register IRC channel

• Resolved: Web site to be come more user-focused (implementation stories, people profiles, project profiles, etc)

• Action: Jason to set up Wiki page for fleshing out user-focus