Web Content Management System (CMS) meeting minutes
Held Thursday, April 24 at 10:30am-noon in MC 1058
Present: Chris, Gary, Eva (Chair), Terry, Pat, Guillermo, Paul, Mary Lynn
Regrets: Megan
1. Administrative items
- Minute Taker: Terry
- Agenda: approved
- Minutes: previous meeting 2008-04-17 approved
2. Principles for Future University of Waterloo Web Content Management
- "Separation of presentation and navigation" needs description -- Paul to write
- "Ease of Maintenance"
- web content contributors:
- add "without requiring knowledge of HTML";
- add "ease of workflow".
- website administrators:
- discuss workflow managementt;
- use example of reorganizing website.
- template creators:
- add "apply" after "implement";
- include Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Coders and Graphics in description.
- web developers:
- add-ins and widgets must be incorporated;
- use example of "calendar creation";
- migration should be addressed; * systems support:
- change to "system administration";
- include examples such as, traffic monitoring, load balancing, configuration, restoration, backup, patching, versioning.
3. Alignment of principles with existing maintenance at University of Waterloo
- Chart provided by Paul
- decided that chart should reflect what we're doing now;
- use of CMS is too low to include in chart;
- Paul to draft explanatory introduction;
- Group Evaluations
Dreamweaver Templates Dreamweaver Templates with SSI 1. Separation of presentation and content 4,4,4,3,4,3,4 2,2.5,2,3,2,2.5 2. Ease of Maintenance 3,3,4,3,3,4,4 3,4,4,2,2,2,3 3. Response to Internal Change 5,4,4,4,4,4,4 2,2,2,2,3,2,3 - Due to time restrictions, other items on table left until next meeting.
4. CMS sse at academic institutions
- Paul created listing on wiki
- Paul reported on IT director's survey
- Concern was noted that we shouldn't be contacting other institutions until we develop questions to ask
- should use principles as basis for questions
- report from Alan Bell lists key questions
- RFP from UC Irvine to be distributed by Eva
5. Other
- need to add definition of DMS to list of acronyms (Eva)
- need to add revision level/date on report (Eva)
Next Meeting: Thursday, May 1st at 10:30 in MC 2009.
-- TerryStewart - 28 Apr 2008