WebCom Scope

The following are the responsibilities of the commitee taken from the offical page .

Create, maintain, and update the content for the foundation web site

Recommend appropriate website technologies

Recommendations:

  * Drupal
  * svn

Alternatives:

  * confluence
  * jira

Decide and implement a site wide style guideline

Deliverables:

  * logo, check!
  * fonts, unclear
  * graphic design, pending
  * writing guidelines, probably per content type, unset

support foundation projects in use of portal technologies and common style

We need to provide a "care and feeding" package to groups and projects making use of our website style and OSGeo branding. The first customer for this care package is the OSGeo website itself, QA for these instructions will be performed by the iccubation projects (ie GeoTools).

Minimal Recomendations (website content, or generated content like javadocs):

  * use of logo as return link: logo position, size, and link target specified
  * use of OSGeo fonts
  * colors may be project specific, if so colors should also be shared w/ OSGeo site

Recommended intergration (project home page):

  * use of content navigation
  ** located w/ respect to the logo (perhaps under)
  ** focus on major content required by the viscom committee, or webcomm research?
  ** optional: additional content navigation may be project specific
  * optional: taceback informaiton for OSGeo tracking stats

Pursue translation of portions of the site into other languages.

  * Website: use of drupal allows for internationalization
  * Projects: web front end to a translation database proposed

Etc...

Common committee responsibilities:

  * add and remove committee members as needed
  * report back to the board (via Chair) to the board monthly on activities and issues.