Notes from the dita.xml.org call on 27 August

Call on Wednesday, 27 August 2014 with Kris Eberlein, JoAnn Hackos, Don Day, and Michael Priestley.

Goals of site

Community site: Provide information about DITA for both novices and experts
Event listings
Resources: Folks mentioned the following as currently useful: Lightweight DITA info; Kris's slides and handout for DITA 1.3 and short descriptions; Robert's DITA-OT information; articles from individuals
Strong TC presence

Be able to ingest DITA content (Examples: Spec, Adoption TC white papers)
Ability for individuals to post content (articles, resources, whatever). Content should be able to be viewed by date submitted.
Ability for admins to communicate with registered users in some way: RSS feed? E-mail to registered users?
Search and taxonomy
Strong spam control: Ability to approve users based on their first post? Current approach for dita-users list (over 3K users) which works
Site should be "skinable"
Ease of use for administrators and participants -- It needs to NOT be excruciatingly painful for people to contribute or administrate -- Must suck less than Drupal or Yahoo!
Ability to have multiple moderators/administrators

How to migrate content from existing site: Export from Drupal and import via transforms?