Difference between revisions of "Website Backlog"

Revision as of 18:32, 25 June 2008

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Wiki

To Do:

• Finish applying web nav to all wiki pages 223927

Done:

• Higgins Wiki Done

New Site Look and Feel

Original Design Goals:

• Give the site have a sense of "integrity". Make the site seem likes its own place while tying this in to the Eclipse mother ship
• Make it seem like Higgins is a "cool" project
• Follow this messaging hierarchy:
  • Tagline: Open Source Information Cards
  • Longer description: Underneath the hood, Higgins is a software development framework. For developers Higgins provides a platform- and protocol-agnostic identity management framework. The Higgins framework is an abstraction layer that provides a set of APIs for developers. Developers can use Higgins to build identity "provider" web services (e.g. a Token Service) as well as to enable relying websites and applications to rely on identity assertions from identity providers.

To Do:

• Gather feedback on http://eclipse.org/higgins

Done:

• Higgins Site Look and Feel Done

New Downloads Organization

• Create new download approach
  • Design new download approach to meet the needs of different "users"
    • Use the Components page as a "download index"?
    • Call out "Selected Downloads" (a few easy-to-consume solutions) vs. All downloads?
    • Take out a layer. For example, combine the page that lists all the available builds Example 1 with the page that you get when you click a build, that lists the available parts Example 2. This could be done by adding 3 additional links to each row on the first page, and eliminating the 2nd.
  • Vet download design with the dev list.
  • Develop new content required by download approach
  • Implemement new download approach - bugzilla: 218923

General Website Organization - can be done now, anytime

• Update project plan and breakout milestone pages - 223368 Done
• Combine status page with updated Project Plan page, and Past Milestones page into a single page. - Done - All but archive material combined
• Combine volunteer and getting started material
• Create a nursery directory for the Website so we can continue to do ongoing updates to the existing site while we are creating a major new nursery in the directory. (currently only have "production" and "development" (ver2) directories) call it nursery. 224379 Done
• Clean up website directories when are done experimenting.
• Make the POI and other Higgins papers more visible in own section under news. Don't just bury in press releases.
• Break Higgins based Solutions at the bottom of Solutions page into open source and commercial offerings.
• Revise Charter and update old long description

Eclipse i-cards

• Creation and use of "Eclipse" i-cards to build community and drive usage experience
  • Follow-up with webmaster on specifics of relationship between bugzilla and mediawiki
  • Work with ICF and community on error handling for existing MediaWiki ((*Heads up to Charles)
  • Work with ICF and community on workflow for RP's
  • Propose details of Selectors offered initially and subsequently (Hosted (FireFox or AIR), Digital Me or Higgins hosted??)
  • Also create bugzilla RP and distribute widely
  • Draft phased proposal for Eclipse (types of cards, systems)

Incorporation of CloudTripper Website

• Start with a link. Make CloudTripper is a visible example of one type of thing that can be done with Higgins
• Evaluate cost/benefits of consolidation

Flash

• Create flash video(s) and make available from a link on the home page.
• Could be several short 60-90 second ones. See two Data Portability videos, one in flash and the other in Blair Witch project style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TupCZY09Kwc
• Also show at workshops, etc.
• When the site looks good and navigates well and we have a more polished end user experience post to YouTube and blog about it.
• Can we get Derick Ashong to star in a brief video?

Tutorials

(This is much lower priority, requires more maturity)

• Create hands on developer tutorials (i.e. how to add Higgins to my blog, How to hook a silo site up to CloudTripper or whatever...etc.)

Bounties

• Jazz up the request for volunteers with requests for specific bounties (when funding permits)

Other

• Twitter

etc...