070927 Web Presence Conference Call

Added by Jonathan Markow, last edited by Jonathan Markow on Sep 27, 2007  (view change)

Agenda

  1. Maintaining list of uPortals in Production
    1. Cf. Sakai's Jira approach
    2. Info on creating Jira cases from email
  2. Managing web change requests
  3. New logo variants
  4. Why aren't more people participating in these calls?

Dial-in Number

Dial in: (800) 981-8084
Guest code: 8861483
Date and time: Thu September 27, 2pm EDT

Prospective Attendees

This meeting is open. Please indicate here that you are planning to join us:

  1. Jonathan Markow
  2. Andrew Petro
  3. Jim Helwig

Minutes

     0.  Minutes by jjmarkow;  present:  Andrew Petro, Jim Helwig, and Jonathan Markow

  1. The group discussed alternate ways to track, maintain, and display "uPortals in Production"
    1. These are currently put on a web page in HyperContent by John; there is another page in our wiki where people are able to enter more detailed information about their uPortal implementation.
    2. We liked the way Sakai tracks implementations in Jira (see screenshot gallery below)
    3. We discussed a workflow where a form on our website could capture the information, we map it to Jira, we display a basic subset on the uportal.org site.
    4. Jim H. will write up functional specs for this on a wiki page for review; Jim will also contact Anthony Whyte to discuss the process through which Sakai collects this information in Jira.
  2. The group discussed the desirability of tracking web change requests in Jira instead of email to webmaster@ja-sig.org.  After an analysis revealed that most requests to webmaster were "please list my uPortal in production," leaving no more than one or two other miscellaneous requests per month, it's currently not worth putting effort into an alternate approach.
  3. The new logo designs are behind schedule.  Work should resume next week.  Jonathan mentioned that a number of people volunteered to do work on this.  Those who were not chosen agreed to be consulted in the future should similar work need to be done.
  4. Why aren't more people participating in these calls?  Darned if we know.  However, given the level of resources we've got for doing substantive web work at this time, we seem to be making adequate progress on the smaller issues.

   

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Comments (4)

 

  1. Sep 28, 2007

    Jason Shao says:

    I read the minutes... In all honesty, while interested I have trouble justifying...

    I read the minutes... In all honesty, while interested I have trouble justifying synchronous collaboration time – though of course my asynchronous time seems to be available...

    1. Oct 01, 2007

      Jason Shao says:

      actually while I can't schedule the conference call, I could probably make an IR...

      actually – while I can't schedule the conference call, I could probably make an IRC session. Thoughts about moving the call to IRC? Would also have the nice possibility of having the transcript auto-generated.

      1. Oct 01, 2007

        Andrew Petro says:

        IRC for JASIG "conference calls" sounds intriguing and worth trying a few times....

        IRC for JA-SIG "conference calls" sounds intriguing and worth trying a few times. It's a nonzero amount of inconvenience to find an appropriate place to take this call.

        I've written before on the list about the advantages of asynchronous collaboration over synchronous collaboration for geographically distributed teams. I'm convinced part of it is cultural – making decisions and getting work done on-list rather than in-call is an important practice for inclusiveness and for ability to execute given the reality of the structure of our organization.

        I feel similarly about the Fluid Summit. While I'm quite pleased that apparently there was much progress and decisions as Eric reports, I'm not convinced that summits that require travel to participate effectively are a better way to make decisions in an open source project than are the Apache-demonstrated approach of making the email lists the project's primary forum with calls and in-person meetings as an extension of the lists into the more tangible world.

  2. Sep 30, 2007

    Aaron Godert says:

    Sorry I didn't attend. I had a conflict. I'll make my best attempt to do so for ...

    Sorry I didn't attend. I had a conflict. I'll make my best attempt to do so for the next meeting.

    So, after reading the above notes, it sounds like I won't be needing to set up JIRA to accept email requests.

    If that's not the case, please let me know.