2012-01-26 ensemble Conf Call Notes

1. New community page

http://www.computingportal.org/c2

Group: We love it, big improvement
We go live after Boots has had a chance to approve

2. Go through list of communities and paste it into priorities page, with ownership, people take on some

Legend at top of priorities page about who does what, we've done 1st level, but not the second level.

3. front page

- minor fixes
- announcement feed
[that people could edit]
- quote of the day
- computing history feed
[ed - ok to include in newsfeed]
[dan - how about an icon]

4. image galleries was moved to about ensemble

- could we move to the left column in the new c2 community page
- perhaps take itisce out since it doesn't connect with a group...

5. 2nd level pages, who is thinking about them?

Berkeley will take lead

6. want to sync test with live site

- please confirm that we can do this soon!

7. (back to priorities)

priority 3.b
Lois -- some might want groups to preserve data per NSF
bugs me that the list of groups is long, hard to know what it is, so heterogeneous, have trouble wrapping brain around it. We don't make it clear when you want to create a group that there may be "categories".
Ed -- is there a way to package something? Say 'take this group and copy it'. As we go through the groups we've signed up for, identify if that group has a template that others might want to use? Bottom up, since we have groups in place. E.g., TECH.
Lois -- I added a column to the priorities page already.
Greg -- long list is tough
Dan -- I recall people wanted to cull the list as their first reaction.
Lois -- foces has 25 subgroups, if we listed them all it would dwarf it. could the posts be the sum of all the subgroups?
Dan -- reveal triangles for group?
ed -- subtotal (last post within 30/60 days?). what kind of discussion, is it a sig? etc.
date of the most recent post. Categories
Dan -- groups are useful to minimize the number of options (content types)
Ed -- now onto P4.

Lois -- Wizards call is now (thu 10am PST)

Ed -- stemrobotics next
Lois -- Under A3.2, we're there as a collection, needs more work to make presentation in navigation bar better, richer relationships we're partway done. We could bring a proposal to a phone call and let you weigh in. Lee from TAMU has already talked to Scott to get rolling. That way TAMU can use this infrastructure. They were going to talk about it on the wizards call.
Dan -- we're in but not right. (not searchable, cross-connected)
Lois -- take a look at the paper, you can do it our way

Ed -- P4b; any others?
Greg -- gettysburg AI, I'll take
Ed -- P4c
Greg -- tried to submit something, got an auto-response with html tags everywhere, "we will be reviewing (as of dec 8)". How does this mechanism work? This appears to fall through the cracks. What's the process? Boots?
Ed -- P5bii -- VT looking at it.
Ed -- P5b, peter + B
Ed -- P6 Monica finishing to pass it on to others
Ed -- P7 patrick is willing

8. Let's prioritize the things we've had
(put in Bold)

9. SIGCSE activities
Rick,Frank,Lois -- I can't be there
Greg,Dan -- I'll be there
Ed -- Not sure
We assume Boots is going
Ed -- Sounds like no meeting at SIGCSE.
Lois -- Easy groups for demo at SIGCSE
Dan -- short of categorization, we could have a vanilla group that was clean and simple with minimal options.