eXtension Engineering Staff Meeting:2010-01-19

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    Agenda

    • Changes to AaE widgets and communication strategy
    • Footnotes extension and publishing Get Satisfaction thread
    • Injecting categories on publishing
      • Maybe the "don't screwup the content" is a solved problem?
      • Revisions and which one is published - when they all have the published category will create confusion - is there a solution?
      • Would the benefit outweigh the inevitable blame and complaints about subsequent revisions and content modification?
        • i.e. Are we damned if we do and damned if we don't? (we continue to be damned by don't)
      • Templates already created in the CoP wiki: http://cop.extension.org/wiki/extension:Template_Messages
    • Where are we with What We Are Doing
    • Possibilities for dealing with Issue #960 - look aheads/behinds for published content
    • 4-H Council curriculum feeds?
      • What is the objective?
      • What will eXtension do with the content-- only feeds related to existing CoPs?
      • How will it be categorized?
      • What rights do we have to this content? Who is responsible for assigning the copyright to eXtension? Contributor's agreements?
      • How does this fit into eXtension's mission? What's the value added?

    Notes

    • Footnotes extension and publishing Get Satisfaction thread
      • deployed update this a.m.
      • Footnotes - fixed! - in our rush to respond, reminded that we need to use the engineering list
    • Injecting categories on publishing?
      • to enable tracking of published content by CoP
      • really encourage templates for this - example
      • James will give hours estimate
    • Possibilities for dealing with Issue #960
      • interlinking to unpublished content
      • those links must be removed when viewed
      • too time intensive to run at render time
      • w/ external feeds - resolve_links runs once at first render
      • going to add a links table
    • Changes to AaE widgets and communication strategy
      • okay for this change, just need to stay within height/widget
      • what is our process?
      • going to create a self-select group in people and advertise to QWs and perhaps extech
      • also going to use the about.blog more
    • Adding email confirmation to widget - looks bad
      • will review stats and see if confirmation reduces typos
    • re-affirming: Google Analytics will be managed from people group
      • Ben will do some clean-up
    • Where are we with What We Are Doing
      • look to be on track with most things