[General] [LAST CALLl] Portal Project: last feedback round

[Ted Leung]

Last call for comments on this proposal.   Please respond by 6pm PST,  
Tuesday June 6.  If you don't have time to write a length response by  
June 6, please let us know that you have comments.

Ted

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> From: Ted Leung <twl at osafoundation.org>
> Date: May 30, 2006 5:37:55 PM PDT
> To: general at osafoundation.org
> Subject: [General] Portal Project: last feedback round
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I think we've reached the point of having a good proposal for  
> changes to the various web sites, which I will refer to as the  
> portal for the rest of this message.
>
> A big part of our effort has been to get a good taxonomy for the  
> content in the portal.   We've done this by looking at how we are  
> actually using the wiki and the various websites  
> (www.osafoundation.org and the project landing/home pages).     The  
> general workflow that we have observed is that content is making  
> its way into the wiki via the notes pages of individuals.  As the  
> content on those pages becomes more concrete, it migrates to pages  
> related to a project or to pages related to a particular group.    
> Some information from those project or group pages needs to be  
> collected and presented to specific audiences for the portal  
> (project contributors versus people new to Chandler versus the  
> press, and so on).   By reorganizing the portal content around this  
> workflow, we hope to make it easier for portal consumers to  
> differentiate between official OSAF thinking and ideas which are  
> still in rough form.   To make this more explicit we plan to have a  
> number of areas in the portal, corresponding to product and/or  
> group pages.   You can see the areas and their taxonomies at  
> <http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/WikiReTaxonomy>.
>
> You can also see the home pages that Mimi has mocked up for the  
> various areas.   The goal of these pages is to be jumping off  
> points into the content of a particular area and to display current  
> information about the status of an area.   The visual layout of  
> these pages is designed to help portal consumers gain a high-level  
> understanding of the structure of the project, and it's  
> organization.   The status portion (right column) of the pages is  
> now sectioned into NEW, NOW, DEFERRED, and ARCHIVE as a way of  
> helping people to quickly understand the state of a project or  
> team.   A portal user will be able to see what tasks/projects are  
> currently in focus, what information has gone out of date, and  
> things that have been deferred until later  We plan to use some  
> wiki automation to generate the status portions of these home  
> pages.   In addition to the area home pages, we will have  
> specialized home pages, like the wiki main page and the project  
> landing/home pages, which will assemble information that is aimed  
> at particular audiences.
>
> Please take some time to look at the page that I linked above.    
> This is the last round of feedback before we start implementing  
> this design.   If we don't need to make any changes to the design  
> then we will start to create some of the new wiki areas and migrate  
> existing content and create new content where necessary.
>
> Ted
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