1/20/2012 Newswire work session
Attending: Liza, Devin, Dana, Drew, Lippe

Agenda/goals:

Clarify news vs. newswire presentation
Get project history, people involved, if/how install is customized from base MN install
Project management

• Clarify project members involvement
• Need for dev instance?
• Hosting
• PM tool

Channels & Taxonomy

• Nesting
• MSM content
• Tech project news aggregation
• UX development
• Taxonomy management, harmonized groupings, XML synonym management

UX for curators

• Right side bar detailing workflow for volunteers
• Full volunteer documentation as page / using roles to create contexts

XML feed design
Work Flow
QA & problem reporting (e.g. Katie sent a spam notice to the tech list)

Notes & next steps

Actionable items are bold w/@

Clarify news vs. newswire presentation
Proposed: Newswire(Drupal) as curation and structuring backend + News(custom code) as light frontend

• Simple frontent could serve as a “honeypot” for attracting developers?
• Could this be in Ruby to capture/provide a project for another skill set?

Agreement: Develop custom Drupal frontend and custom code frontend in parallel for a week or so, revisit issue.

• Continue dev on news.occupy (@Drew)
• Theme a dev instance of newswire/Drupal install (@Liza)
• Create dev instances for organizational experimentation – (@Lippe)

Get project history, people involved

• Reach out for info any customization from base MN profile – cedewey? (@Lippe)

Project management

• Redmine, update wiki and remove bettermeans, migrate tickets (@Drew)
• Connect with Sam about hosting: What are the specs, can it be upgraded and stay on devcloud? (@Lippe)

Channels & Taxonomy

• Investigate managing feed sources intended to be kept discrete from movement feeds. (@)
• Tech project needs listings don’t seem appropriate for news/newswire, possibly good for general tech project updates
• Investigate taxonomy & synonym management (@)

Re-organize channels / taxonomy
* organize feeds for curators
* organize channels for users
- set up as top level channels (which are books)
- clean up taxonomy for curated tagging of content
- how to facet the feeds & taxonomy

Design
- look like Google News?
- pull out lists
- panels?

ROLES (Drupal permission roles)

• Build Admins
  • Themes, architecture
• Web Admins
  • Site & community management
• Channel Admins
  • Create channels & subchannels
  • Adds feeds
• News Curators
  • Tag feed items
  • Promoting
  • Possibly form teams instead of creating hierachy for promoting content

Adding a documentation layer with
- CoolAid
- Modal Frames

Notes:
MN data architecture overview: http://drupal.org/node/920708

Bike rack
Dave Weiner – http://occupyweb.org/

Unaddressed
Thiagos hot mess:
Define/Map out JS/PHP requests/responses for public interface (api)?
net.occupy.newswire
options = {
dateRange: {
start: mmddyyyy,
end: mmddyyyy
}
}

Off the cuff
net.occupy.newswire.requestFeeds( options )
net.occupy.newswire.requestChannel( ‘cannelName’, options )
net.occupy.newswire.requestFeedsByTags( Array( ‘tag’,'tag2′,… ), options )
net.occupy.newswire.requestPostById( postId )
.. and many many more!

From Devin?
Content Management Workflow (from email about content/training)
Unregistered users:
* build resource portals on the wiki.

Registered users:
* Add tags to content items
* Maintain channel tags
* Keep the ‘harmonized tags’ page on the wiki updated
* Add location based events, pictures, and videos to the Maps [can unregistered users do this?]
* Build resources on the wiki.
* Add/Remove feeds and channels – log changes in the wiki

CRM Users
* Reach out to post authors to organize #topic newsletters
* Recruit site admins to take a “newswire training”