[NCUC E-team] Todo list

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On May 17 11:00, Tapani Tarvainen (ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info) wrote:

> to-do list

Quick update:


> (1) Mailing lists
> 
> * Rename beijing2013 to something generic ("events"?)
> * Combine inreach and outreach under a new name
>   ("membership-affairs"? "memberaffairs"?)
> 
> I can do theses once we decide the new names, it won't take long.

These are now done.

> (2) New website

The front page pictures should be updated:
* Beijing is already in the past, substitute picture of Durban;
* the map with member counts is out of date. It shouldn't be too hard
to update it dynamically from the member database; I'm working on that.

> * There're a number of topics with nothing under them:
> 
> About/History
> About/Role
> Participate/PDP Working Groups
> Participate/Document Collaboration
> Policy/Correspondence
> Policy/Motions
> Policy/Public Comments
> 
> Insofar as content for these is in the old (Ning) site
> or another known location, it should be copied over.

Wilson promised to take the lead on this. Any progress?

> Otherwise, that is when new content would need to
> be written, it's not really e-team's task, but we
> could and should prepare means for keeping these
> up to date (i.e., make it easy for whoever writes
> the stuff to put it here as well).

No progress here. We really need people of substance here;
once we have some volunteers we could simply give them
accounts with editing privileges and ask them to add
stuff whenever they can.

> * There're also some that are pretty good but need
> a bit more polish:
> 
> Executive Committee: Carlos' picture is missing.

I asked for Carlos to send his picture, will add it there when I get it.

I've also fixed some links and typos on some pages.

> Working Teams: formatting is a bit off, and above-mentioned
> mailing list changes should be reflected here as well.

This should be also done to reflect the lists contents
automatically. Shouldn't be too hard.

> * Members' pages in Ning should be moved over.
> 
> * Once all content from Ning has been copied over,
> Ning should be shut down and www.ncuc.org
> directed to the new site.

I'm beginning to fear we won't get members' pages moved
over in time. If so, we could try leaving Ning for a while
under a different url (just ncuc.ning.org or whatever).

> * Etherpad should be integrated with Wordpress.
> (There's a plugin for that, shouldn't be hard.)

I'll take a look at this soon. The only problem
I can see is authentication and integration with
member data, but we can start by either leaving it open
or limiting to site editors.
In any case it isn't particularly urgent,
being a new feature to begin with.

> We should be able to get the above done by Durban.

I still think we should. It will take some effort, however.

> (3) Member database / CiviCRM &c
> 
> This needs work, a lot or a little depending on how
> ambitious we are.
> I don't expect this to be finished by Durban, but
> some progress should be possible.

I won't even try to get started with CiviCRM before Durban.
I may do some work the member database but nothing radical.

On May 17 11:09, Wilson Abigaba (wilson at isoc.ug) wrote:

> I was planning to continue with and eventually migrate the website
> this week (ooh, it has already ended!), so let's make it happen. I
> will take the lead on that. I am adding a Calendar of events too,
> since we have a few lined up this year.

Good.

> No.4 on the list of todos is also confluence. This is also achievable
> by (well, before) Durban.

Any progress on that?

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen