[Cc-webedit] minutes from Hebden

[alistair alexander]

ok - i thought we were trying to arrange an evening meeting in london
anyway.

perhaps we could have a web editorial meeting on tuesday - or we could hold
out for the full-day web extravaganza, i don't mind either way

ali

2009/5/29 Jonathan Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>

> 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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