WebComTODO

List of tasks to be done by Web Committee. Eventually I imagine this should be handled by the bug (artifact?) tracker but I don't know how to use that properly yet.

Current Work

• Logo Contest Parameters for the contest and where we store the results. The contest should be done ASAP as this affects the look of the site. We can get help from CollabNet's branding people to flow from the logo into the style of the site.

Pending

Frank's Suggestions

Short Term

• Update the OSGEO Website Terms of Service on the web site.
• Setup feedback mechanism for web site. I suppose this ought to be creating artifacts in the bug system, but a feedback email list might be more appropriate.
• Recruit more members on discuss list. What skills are most valuable?

Medium Term

• Work on web site overall style.
• Hold an OSGeo Logo Contest.
• Flesh out the web site pages. New, about, contact, etc.
• Organize translation volunteers.

Wiki

• Figure out a wiki technology to incorporate. Mediawiki seems really nice. The Java folks seems really keen on Confluence.
• Do we need this hosted on a non-collabnet server since it isn't a core collabnet service?
• We need some mechanism(s) to ensure the folks realize material in the wiki is not authoritative. That it is essentially individuals working documents, not foundation policy.
• Make sure the wiki requires some sort of login or something so it is not easily spammed.

More Frank's Suggestions (From Email)

• In the FAQ change I think we should be removing "In line with the do-acracy, those who contribute to the foundation goals will be recognised in the future with voting memberships." It is premature for us to say this, and in any event most people who contribute to the goals will not get voting memberships unless we accept many thousands of voting members.
• Please put the bylaws under Corporation Documents. They are finalized in the wiki. Leave out Articles of Incorporation till we have them.

Rich's Suggestion

• I think sooner rather than later we should have an “About the Foundation” or “About OSGeo” link in the left hand box of the current home page template (i.e., delete the "Foundation Meeting Docs" link and replace it with an "About OSGeo" link). The landing page for this link would essentially be the hub where all information about the foundation, legal and IP policies (including forms of contributor agreements), corporate records (articles of incorporation and bylaws), board meeting archives, annual member meeting archives, etc.

I've put together a mocked up sample landing page for the "About OSGeo" link here --> About OSGeo Sample Page

Recently Completed Work

• Welcome Message This is the first welcome page seen by a new user. This needs to be written up. It should be short and sweet because users really only see it once.
• Setup mechanism for people to create accounts website user accounts on their own. (From Frank)
• Setup WebCOM mailing list, and get committee members on it! (From Frank)
• Ensure that WebCOM members can update all appropriate web pages (ie. osgeo.org, webcommittee.osgeo.org, board.osgeo.org, etc).
• the "Foundation Officers" and "Board Members" menu items both go to the board members list. I would you contract this to one menu item (Board and Officers) and list them all in one page. It isn't that long a list. The Officers are "President: Frank Warmerdam", "Treasurer: Gary Lang", "Secretary: Rich Steele".
• Please do populate the Committees page. I have already done some minimal work on the Incubator committee page (incubator.osgeo.org). You should do at least as much for WebCOM. Please encourage or provide support to Arnulf to do the same for the promotions committee.
• I would prefer not to have anything on the web site about sponsors or sponsorship till after we have a sponsorship program worked out. So, please remove the sponsorship.html page too.
• Setup WebCOM web page, with "mandate" and policies and procedures.
• Membership nominations needs to have an announcement and link to the nominees list.
• Fix the SSL Certificate issue when entering the site (maybe don't use always https?)
• Don't put the word "final" after the FAQ on governance.html. It is not final. It is just official. And we don't need to add that because it is on the official web site.
• Yipee! I am pleased about the membership list. I would like to see a comment here that we are working on the associate membership process or something to that effect.

Other Status

• Terms of Service installation should happen today or tomorrow
• SSL Certificate is now installed
• Note: Email can not by truncated/filtered by size. We can only disallow MIME attachments.
• Daniel Brookshier working with web committee to understand the site and capabilities