[Cc-webedit] minutes from Hebden

[Jonathan Leighton]

I have a little bit of an issue with this depending on what is discussed
- it seems the "editing crew" are mainly in London (Jonathan, Ellen,
Alistair), but others of us are further away (Sara, me, Neil). I guess
it depends what the purpose of that meeting would be and how much
decision making power it would have, but if you guys came up with some
changes which were then sent to the list for comments first I think it
should be okay.

I do think we will need a full day meeting at some point to:

* Put together the design brief
* Think about information architecture (do interactive stuff like card
sorting, diagrams on whiteboards, etc)
* Work out a mandate for the blog
* Etc...

I think maybe we should try to set a date for this over the list so that
people's diaries don't get booked up. We realised in Hebden this wasn't
realistically going to happen before the Cambridge gathering, but soon
after would be great. We also said that it would be in London.

I have set up a "doodle" here - please say when you can make it and we
can work out a venue:

  http://doodle.com/imz7dtddt845gvd2

Also, I can report that I have chatted to Torchbox
(http://www.torchbox.com/) and they will probably be able to do a design
for us. They will discuss it next Wednesday and confirm after that.

Jonx

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 14:48 +0100, alistair alexander wrote:
> Thanks Jonathan,
> 
> could we use working group time in a tuesday london meeting to have a
> website meeting? it seemed we were going to meet in london anyway.
> 
> alistair  
> 
> 2009/5/29 Jonathan Stevenson <jjjstevenson at fastmail.fm>
>         Hi all,
>         
>         Please find below and attached the minutes of the website
>         meeting from the Hebden gathering. We didn't get as much time
>         as we wanted and not everyone was there who we'd hoped, but we
>         did make some progress.
>         
>         J
>         
>         ---
>         
>         Website WG Meeting – 27/05/2009
>         
>         New website
>         • The gathering had reached consensus on the Saturday that an
>         overhaul of the website was urgently needed. Discussion about
>         Jon's website document as a starting point and how to take it
>         forward.
>         • Who is available to do what?
>         ◦ Design: Sara, Torchbox (maybe)
>         ◦ Tech: Jon, Brian, Neil
>         ◦ Content Editing: Ellen, Jonathan, Alistair, Simon (maybe),
>         Sophie (maybe)
>         
>         Content
>         • Front page: specifically needs a clear process to decide
>         what goes on there, what does not, and how changes are made.
>         This will be part of the next design but we can review it now
>         as an interim measure.
>         • AP: Jonathan to suggest interim side button changes
>         • Blog: Discussion about a potential blog:
>         ◦ Needs a written mandate
>         ◦ Should not have opinion pieces as these will appear to be
>         “from the climate camp”
>         ◦ Should have regular updates about “what's happening” - brief
>         informal reports from meetings etc, to keep the narrative
>         going and keep people coming back to the website
>         ◦ Needs a process
>         ◦ To discuss next meeting
>         
>         Design
>         • Our new design should be quite flexible, as our “projects”
>         change regularly, so it should not be designed around a
>         particular project (I.e. g20, summer camp, etc.)
>         • AP: Jon to speak to potential designers to assess
>         availability
>         
>         Tech
>         • Not clear if Drupal is necessarily the system we need,
>         though it is working well in some ways. We should investigate
>         other options but also see whether we can upgrade to a newer
>         version and/or use existing functionalities more.
>         • AP: Jon to look into our options at a technology level,
>         therefore needs FTP access and technical access to Drupal in
>         order to see what we currently have and how it works
>         (consensus). Jon will ask Neil for passwords.
>         
>         Next meeting
>         • At the next gathering in Cambridge, 20-21st June. We would
>         like to have arranged a longer meeting outside a gathering
>         sooner, but couldn't agree a date due to a number of people's
>         constraints.
>         
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