Meeting Notes: December 7, 2010
The Tenn-Share Web Committee met on December 7, 2010 at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library on Vanderbilt’s campus. Wendy Cornelisen, Jodie Gambill, Penny Frere, Courtney Fuson and DeAnne Luck were present.
We discussed the content of the Tenn-Share website and decided that the DataFest and Fall Conference pages should be formatted similarly from now on. In the future, both the DataFest and Fall Conference pages will follow the format of the current Fall Conference page (http://www.tenn-share.org/FallConference) with an overview of past conferences during the off times and a more thorough page that provides schedule information, registration and housing information when it’s time for the conferences. The updated conference pages will also have links to the appropriate image galleries for each conference.
The Web Committee would like to provide more information about the various aspects of Share Your Stuff on the Share Your Stuff page. We’d like to help promote this and would like the Share Your Stuff page to be a more complete resource for those who have questions about it. Penny agreed to contact David Atkins to see if he could provide more detailed information and Courtney agreed to work on rearranging and updating the current page.
One of the biggest changes the Web Committee would like to make is to move all committee pages to commitee wikis. Drupal (the content management system that our site runs on) provides wiki functionality. Some of the committees are currently using this, but we’d like to move all of the committees to the wiki format. This will provide the committee chairs with the ability to update the information about their committees as it happens as well as providing the committees with private workspace. Jodie and Courtney will talk more about this at the February board meeting.
The Website Committee is pleased to note that Tenn-Share will be able to use the TLA subscription to GoToWebinar for webinar hosting!
Another topic of discussion was the Tenn-Share Ning, the current home of Learn & Discover. Next summer, the Ning will have to be renewed. The Web Committee would like to consider moving the current content on the Ning to the Tenn-Share site. Ning will allow us to export our content if we decide not to renew the subscription, and we can then import that content to the Tenn-Share site. We don’t know yet if that content export would include the forums as well as the lessons, but we should be able to import whatever Ning will give us.
Related to that, and following up discussions at the October board meeting, the Web Committee would like to recommend that any content produced by the Workshops committee be release under a Creative Commons license. The Web Commitee recommends that the license be either Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) or Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
The Web Commitee has also started pushing the news and events that are published on http://tenn-share.org to the Tenn-Share Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/tennshare) and to the Tenn-Share Twitter account (http://twitter.com/tennshare). The Twitter account was previously called LearnDiscover, but was renamed so that we could keep our followers. If you are on Facebook or Twitter, the Web Committee would encourage you to friend/follow Tenn-Share there.
The Web Committee also discussed the link color used on the website. Several options were explored (using blue links instead, underlining links, making the links larger on hover), and sample pages were created. The committee is still reviewing the various options and will notify the board when a decision is reached.