[sakai-pmc] Status of new Sakai website

[Ian Dolphin (apereo)]

Sam

Your assumptions re Drupal and content management are correct.

When Julie Curtis undertook the content refresh, I asked her to indicate who/what body, in her opinion, would be best to refresh the content. Neal and I will be meeting shortly to review that work, and suggest content authors. As we add what is essentially CRM functionality towards the end of the year, this will include automated reminders for authors, etc.

We'll also speak about obtaining more up to date information on adopters. This is easier, imo, in the context of a new website being out there. 

Thanks to all who contributed.

Best

Ian

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Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Apereo Foundation

ian.dolphin at apereo.org



On 30 Apr 2014, at 20:12, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com> wrote:

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>> 2) What is the process for incremental improvements?  Do we send an email to Neal saying that http://www.sakaiproject.org/download-sakai-cle is broken?
> That's fine for now. btw http://www.sakaiproject.org/download-sakai is the correct link and is linked from http://www.sakaiproject.org/evaluate . Did you find this link from somewhere else on the site? It's not the page that is broken, but whatever is using that outdated "cle" url. 
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> Go to http://www.sakaiproject.org/try-sakai and click "Download and Install".
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>> 3) Who has permission to update content on this site?  Ian and Neal?
> I think I do, but have not been. I'm not a web designer.
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> Updating content is completely separate from being a web designer.  This site appears to be built using the Drupal content management system.  End users are not expected to have any design skills to update content.  Updating content should probably use a nice rich-text editor similar to the one we use in Sakai.
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> I've been passing issues on to the web designers. 
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> Okay, can you put together a plan so that the site can be updated routinely without relying on web designers?  If you are not the person, should we be talking to Ian instead?
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> I think they are looking into leveraging things like RSS, which would be nice, so I/we can focus on content.
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> This sentence doesn't make a lot of sense.  RSS is a syndication format so the content published by the site can be consumed by other apps or sites.
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>   I think we need an easy plan, and it would be nice if the responsibility, at least for reviewing and getting content updated, if not actually making the updates. could be distributed.
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> Yes, I completely agree.  I'm elated we have a new site, and I really hope you can put together a plan of action so we can keep this site up-to-date with current information.
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> --Sam
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