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 22, 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)