Re: Status of UBL web site

[Karl Best <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Tim:

1. The text on the TC's pubic page is a combination of dynamic 
information from the Kavi database and static HTML. You can modify the 
content for "minutes", "press", etc. by sending new text and 
instructions to the webmaster. Such things as events, new documents, 
etc. are modified using the Kavi functionality.

2. Re: openness and sharing of information, we're still tweaking the 
sharing settings, and obviously don't have it quite rights. There's no 
change in philosophy; we aren't trying to restrict anything. We just 
need to figure out the right settinngs.

-Karl




Tim McGrath wrote:
> The new OASIS web server is now running at www.oasis-open.org.  What you 
> see there is driven by the Kavi system.  In fact, i was editing at the 
> time it cut over which confused me for some time!
> 
> I managed to get the UBL home page to look a bit like the old one.  This 
> required putting HTML code in the 'notes' (which it says not to do) but 
> it worked, so i left it.
> 
> I also made the following changes:
> 
> Roster  - demoted Patrick Gannon to OBSERVER  (he was Chair for some 
> reason).
> Calendar
> - made entries for the forthcoming plenary
> Documents
> - Under the Calendar documents i added a link to the Liaison's calendar 
> page
> - Under Meeting Notes i added links to the minues of previous meetings
> - Made two new folders ("UBL Presentations" and "White papers and 
> related documents")
> - Under UBL Presentations i added the latest UBL presentation slide show 
> (we now need to upload the others as well)
> - Under White papers and related documents i added the UBL White Paper 
> and the Value Proposition paper
> 
> It appears as if all the old links to our working directories and the 
> email archives still work, so it was not a tricky as it could have been. 
> Some of the outstanding issues i have noticed are:
> a. on the 'public' home page for UBL:
>    - there is a link to 'Minutes' which goes to a test page.  it could 
> be useful, but we cannot  seem to update this (so minutes are in the 
> documents section)
>    - there is a link to 'Press' which goes to a page of press arcticles 
> (taken from our original page). I cannot  see how to update this either
>    - there is a link to 'Schedule' which goes to our liaison schedule 
> (taken from our original page). I cannot  see how to update this either
>    - it appears as if we can only change the 'Announcement', the 'Group 
> Description' and anything under the 'Documents' link.
>    - subcommittee links still go to the old SC home pages (we cannot 
> change this).
>    - subcommittess cannot make their documents to public or even OASIS, 
> so things like the LC minutes and working documents are now private to UBL.
> 
> b. on the 'members' home page:
>    - the 'my groups' lists all INDIVIDUAL OASIS members as in 'my 
> company' - so the page is 12 feet long.
>    - things like 'recent documents' and 'upcoming events' are populated 
> when various TC Chairs (or designates) choose to broadcast their updates 
> to the full OASIS membership.  this is going to require some discipline 
> for all of us (i made the mistake myself several times).  this will take 
> a while to settle down and i suspect we should warn our members.
> 
> By the way, i originally felt most UBL members would never log in to 
> their OASIS accounts.  That we could keep our work visible to the 
> world.  But, as i noted above, subcommittess cannot share their 
> documents to public or even OASIS, so any SC documents uploaded to the 
> OASIS site are now private to UBL.  Things like our current review 
> package could not be published on the new OASIS site (it works now 
> because we reference the old directories - which we can no longer 
> update).  The next round we shall have to follow the OASIS committee 
> spec process (which is what we had planned anyway).  However, we need to 
> be careful when we describe the UBL process as 'open' - it is only 
> 'open' to OASIS members and in the case of SC work , only 'open' to UBL 
> members.
> 
> I will CC Karl and Scott (no relation) with this as they probably have 
> more information to add and presumably have nothing to do now this 
> system is installed ;-)
> 


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