Headlights2013/SiteRedesign

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This public wiki holds notes related to the 2013 Headlights task force on redesigning the W3C site. Questions? Contact Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>.

Participants

• Ian Jacobs, W3C, Chair
• Robin Ginn, Microsoft
• Sorin Stefan
• Troy Allison, Intel
• Michael Nieling, Ocupop
• Ted Guild, W3C
• Bev Corwin, The Information Architecture Institute
• Doug Schepers, W3C

Anticipated activities

• Identify primary audiences and determine priority needs (through interviews, surveys, etc.).
• Examine current subsites (public, member, group home pages, mailing list archives) and establish a scope for the project.
• Enumerate site requirements (e.g., on use of standards, accessibility, mobile versions, use of tools).
• Examine content creation and maintenance at W3C (e.g., w3c blog, news from groups)
• Study possible infrastructure solutions (e.g., off the shelf open source CRM versus rolling our own; integration with other W3C infrastructure)
• Establish a timeline and budget for implementing the plan by Q4 2014.

Deliverables

• The primary deliverable of this project will be the results of our study, a proposed redesign scope, budget, and timeline.
• We may work on information architecture, wireframes, and other artifacts to help us work with users and discuss the project.
• We may also look for funding.

Timeline

• February: Formal "launch date"
• February - June: Develop ideas
• 9-11 June: W3C discusses at its annual Membership meeting
• June - July: Further refinement
• July: W3C management evaluates proposal and determines what resources to allocate.

Topics

• Audit (number of pages, top hits, sections of site, ...)
• Analytics (check with Wendy and Ted on status of policy work)

Random comments

• Mailing list archive redesign
• StratML in charters (via Phil)
• Improve readability of font