IRC log of site-design on 2013-11-13

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Chair: Ian
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Ian: Background info first....
08:30:32 [ddavis]
Ian: We last designed the W3C site in 2008. A lot has changed then since then.
08:30:44 [ddavis]
Ian: New audience, new properties, new technology, etc.
08:31:10 [ddavis]
Ian: We have 20th anniversary of W3C next year (2014) so wouldn't it be cool to have a new site/branding to go with that.
08:31:32 [ddavis]
Ian: Some of our site will be data-powered in the future.
08:31:42 [ddavis]
Ian: We only have part of the redesign here today.
08:31:52 [ddavis]
Ian: We concluded the Headlights project in July.
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http://www.w3.org/wiki/Headlights2013/SiteRedesign/Proposal
08:32:41 [ddavis]
Ian: We have a proposal for the management team asking for money to do this.
08:32:56 [ddavis]
Ian: Management team said great - but no money available.
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Ian: But we were given a job opening for someone based in China.
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Ian: Things slowed down a bit and I was looking around for funding. A bit of interest but still looking.
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08:34:27 [ddavis]
Dirk: We had a site redesign only 5 years ago. If we have not enough money, why don't we just redesign e.g. the specs pages?
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08:34:57 [ddavis]
Ian: People are telling us the TR pages sucks. We also have a need to impress new industry contacts and interested companies/organisations.
08:35:14 [ddavis]
Ian: We also did a survey and got the response that people like our content but have trouble finding it.
08:35:38 [ddavis]
Ian: Our site is blocking our users. We may have to limit the scope but initially I'd like to try for the whole thing.
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Ian: To get some ideas for TPAC I contact designers and got some help to create wireframes which I'm presenting today.
08:36:28 [marilyn]
new scribe: marilyn
08:36:48 [brett]
s/new scribe/scribenick/
08:36:58 [marilyn]
Ian: working group home pages...we think we can do a lot better
08:37:19 [marilyn]
...we have the beginnnnings of use case and requiremenets, but also want to talk to people here at TPAC
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...so today the bulk of this is getting feedback on the wireframes I have
08:39:52 [marilyn]
Ian: many people in the survey said 'we want the standard'
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Ian describes block on right...W3C spotlight
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..this will be lightweight way to give heads up
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..if there is no spotlight, you won't see it
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our key audience is developer community
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remember, this is wireframe, not design
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the Put our Standards to Work for you block
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An Agenda of Innovation block
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...includes horizontal and vertical topics
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...like Web and TV (vertical) and accessibility (horizontal)
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...some of these pages will be ported from existing site, others will be purged
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..there is a giant elephant in the room...who is going to do all this content strategy and maintenance...
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TBD
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...for the first time we'll have a clear explanation of who to get involved in our work
08:44:28 [renoirb]
will be section to describe how to get involved for the public
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...part will be member and part will be non-member oriented
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...there will be member testimonials , too
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finally, there will be a section for donations and sponsorships
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...so the flow is timely developer industry/social participation
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Slide 2
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what's different is what happens at top of page
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in the future to give fast access...we will have type-ahead
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...search
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...but exact topics will be decided
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Richard Ishida asks for clarification of headings....Top 5 and See All
08:47:39 [marilyn]
Richard: this is good, but it's still a lot of clicks to get to things (specs, WG)
08:47:59 [marilyn]
Ian: so far there are no clicks, just typing
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Richard: typing is just as onerous
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Richard: wants fast llinks to groups and topics
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DD: +1
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s/DD/ddavis
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Ian: our privacy policy does not allow us to use Google analytics
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...I sent to systeam what people are looking for
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...so the next view is
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...tabs link to topics you might want
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...for example, we're planning a WoT workshop
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...so I want people to be able to find this topic from a higher level abstraaction
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Cameron: @@
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s/@@/I'm not sure "Innovation Agenda" is clear for people to understand/
08:52:18 [marilyn]
...definition of innovation agenda
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Ian: web topics or W3C topics...I didn't know if that would be enough
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...innovation doesn't necessarily mean future work
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Ian: I'm conflicted if bar at top should map to block below
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...because of scrolling
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mark: it's behaviour will have to change when you go into subpages
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ian: why?
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mark: I'm against it for that reason...hard to maintain and for accessbility
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s/accessbility/accessibility
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mark: sticky inpage navigation
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(position: sticky)
08:55:43 [marilyn]
Ian: TV and Broadcasting page
08:56:09 [marilyn]
...see it starts with general industry info to show W3C knows what's going on with that industry
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..the next block is binding between industry and W3C's (our approach)
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..the third block (scrolling) highlights some specific content or groups you can get involved in
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...some parts will be more static than others (e.g. blogs)
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Cameron: add point of contact to industry landing page
08:57:41 [marilyn]
Ian: yes
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MC: what about filtering testimonials per industry topic
08:58:57 [marilyn]
Ian: we can't advertise on the website, but we can acknowledge sponsors
08:59:40 [marilyn]
Doug: so thse are industry specific pages
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...who is the audience specifically?
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...what level of mngt?...not technical?
09:00:09 [marie_]
s/what about filtering/what about having another of
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ian: the content will be overview content
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Ian: previews Web and TV page
09:01:41 [marilyn]
Doug: I suspect that one of the users of this site will already know the tech aspects and will be coming here looking for more
09:01:56 [marilyn]
...perhaps add a slide deck or other resources for them?
09:02:11 [marie_]
+1
09:02:17 [marilyn]
ian: this is a separate topic that we are addressing elsewhere
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Liam: 1) analytics and 2) primary audience = developers
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...what about writers?
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...don't we fail them by focusing only on developers?
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Doug: isn't that what WebPlatform is for?
09:03:51 [marilyn]
ian: yes, WP does play a role...also I consider these pages for industry analysts too
09:04:08 [marilyn]
...I don't think primers are something we should be working on
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liam: I don't think so either
09:04:28 [marilyn]
Ian: Tech Reports page (TR page)
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...this page will make clear 1) when 2) title 3) status
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s/when/when this was published
09:05:23 [marilyn]
...we ask all the groups to provide a one sentence description so I'd like to add those here
09:05:36 [marilyn]
...sorting happens through tops of columns like the rest of the world does
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...filter mechanisms
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...view nightly draft
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...you'll see we have multiple pages, I know we need a 'view all'
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...see the filters
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...tags to get at things
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Cameron and Ian: all these things will have a URL
09:07:42 [marilyn]
I want to bookmark the page with filters already set
09:07:57 [marilyn]
Richard: uses example of finding internationalization
09:08:22 [marilyn]
Ian: you're the guy who leverages those categories
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Richard: I would like some grouping
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..HTML is simple, i18n is more complicated
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Ian: I was thinking of using tags, but let me think more about this
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...CSS Namespaces Modules example page
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...abstract, groups, related resources
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...there's a mapping maintenance question here
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Cameron: this is a metadata goldmine....who maintains and where
09:11:48 [marilyn]
Ian: please provide a tool for distributed editing of spec metadata
09:12:56 [marilyn]
...editors don't want stuff stripped from our documents...leave it in
09:13:07 [ddavis]
Attendees: dorian, Ian, brett, ddavis, ijongcheol, ingee_kim_, Jean-Gui, jeremie, krit, laurent, marie_ marilyn, MarkS, r12a, renoirb
09:13:25 [marilyn]
Doug: you're pointing to WPDocs for a specific application
09:13:49 [marie_]
q+
09:13:49 [marilyn]
...we do not have an end point like that, but we could potentially do this...do you want this?
09:14:00 [marilyn]
Ian: somebody has got to describe the binding
09:14:05 [ddavis]
Present: dorian, Ian, brett, ddavis, ijongcheol, ingee_kim_, Jean-Gui, jeremie, krit, laurent, marie_ marilyn, MarkS, r12a, renoirb, Ian, Liam, Doug
09:14:12 [marilyn]
Doug: steps up to do binding
09:14:29 [marilyn]
Doug: will we show authors and editors?
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ian: yes
09:14:45 [marilyn]
Doug: link to profile page so see what else that person is working on?
09:15:03 [marilyn]
ian: systeam has on their docket to do profiles
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Dirk: I always liked that specs were listed on W3C homepage..didn't have to go find them
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Richard: I asked for that too
09:16:25 [marilyn]
DD: control, F...find a spec
09:16:51 [marilyn]
Ian: today we have sort by date and title
09:17:01 [marilyn]
...you get there from under Standards block
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(some in group here didn't know this)
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q?
09:17:35 [marie_]
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/mobile-web-app-state/
09:17:43 [krit]
http://www.google.com/imgres?sa=X&noj=1&biw=1403&bih=787&tbm=isch&tbnid=JTJ34Ha6JgEDaM:&imgrefurl=http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/2002Jun/0041.html&docid=fnp4v3l4mtTkaM&imgurl=http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/2002Jun/att-0041/validator.w3.org_website_down.gif&w=448&h=404&ei=2j2DUrb5J6eEjAK7y4GICQ&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:3,s:0,
09:17:43 [krit]
i:90&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=195&tbnw=216&start=0&ndsp=20&tx=106&ty=118
09:17:50 [ddavis]
ack marie_
09:17:54 [ddavis]
q+ Doug
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ack Doug
09:18:37 [marilyn]
MC: search engine, custom stuff, are things we;ll need for keyword search
09:18:45 [marilyn]
s/kirk/krit
09:19:16 [marilyn]
Ian: need to identify how to do this search of keywords and who will build/maintain
09:19:37 [marilyn]
Cameron: I agree that catagories used are not helpful
09:20:00 [marilyn]
Ian: the last thing to show today is a quickie view of mobile wireframe
09:20:19 [ddavis]
RRSAgent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/11/13-site-design-minutes.html ddavis
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...again, start with Standards, then Developer section, then Industry and BizDev
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...not sure about the URI
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Ian: time check...10 minutes left
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Meeting: w3.org Site Redesign Breakout Meeting
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RRSAgent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/11/13-site-design-minutes.html ddavis
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Ian: two challenges, audiences...public facing and how to get the work done
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two pages or one page?
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what is order of the flow?
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what is most friendly approach?
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Cameron: we used to have two different pages, not just have single page in SVG WG
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s/not/now
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Ian: Doug said I think I know my community
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..and he was right
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...so we had centralized pages....grid of topics related to web design
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....some examples...this is the high level page and we'll maintain it
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Cameron: at least for SVG, the majority of spec writing audience is web developers
09:24:36 [marilyn]
Ian: I think we did it wrong, so now what are the audience needs?
09:24:49 [ddavis]
q?
09:25:12 [marilyn]
Doug: I periodically get questions from developers about SVG...
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...if you at the SVG WG page, I tried to take the style of the home page, consistently give some details
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...how to participate
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..used as a template across several WG pages
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ian: I love consistency...did they like this?
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...what is the content they need?
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Doug: there is a set of people who want to see what a particular WG is working on
09:27:45 [marilyn]
...it should automatically update
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...if I go to CSS page, I'm going to find different set of info...no consistency
09:28:51 [marilyn]
Ian: I asked people in the survey if they want help in group pages...they said YES
09:29:04 [marilyn]
Doug: good point that there are different audiences....
09:29:35 [marilyn]
...have 2 pages
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Ian: all of this input is super helpful
09:30:12 [marilyn]
...I have to rush off now
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rrsagent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/11/13-site-design-minutes.html marilyn
09:31:50 [ijongcheol]
Hey, can I get the wireframe PDF?
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testing
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/11/13-site-design-minutes.html Ian
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rrsagent, bye
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