Minutes 2005-03-16: GEO telecon

Minutes 2005-03-16: GEO telecon, at 17:00 UTC/GMT, 10:00 Seattle, 13:00 Boston, 18:00 London, 19:00 Paris, 03:00 Melbourne


ATTENDEES
Deborah Cawkwell (BBC, Scribe)
Andrew Cunningham (State Library of Victoria)
Richard Ishida (W3C, Chair)
Susan Miller (Boeing)


NEW ACTIONS
RI, Update plan/pipeline document with different structure.
All, Read FTF minutes
RI, Talk to JY re Global Gateway
DC, Unicode upgrade - circulate before next meeting
SM, Getting started - circulate draft by 30 March
DC, Discount usability: set up WIKI page with user profiles & task scenarios drawing from discussions at FTF meeting
SM, Feedback at bottom of FAQ, eg, "Do you have a topic for an FAQ?" (analogy with news stories). User more likely to engage with it on a FAQ representing information they have actively sought. Elaborate in email to list
DC, Vote widget on FAQ page: "How useful did you find this page?" or "Did this FAQ answer your question?" Elaborate in email to list


INFO SHARE
RI: hoping to upload first of new-look tutorials this evening at 
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ [Now Done]
RI: paper for Unicode conference 
RI: presentation for www conference 2005, Japan in W3C track re i18n activity. 
Other GEO attendees: hopefully DC, AC problems with travelling, probably SM.


REVIEW OF GEO WORK ITEMS
Work process:
- Agreement at FTF to be more timely in delivery - 'hold toes to fire'! 
- Agenda will contain what will be done at the meeting & what needs to be prepared for the meeting in 2 week's time. RI to capture new way of working with deliverables agreed below to plan/pipeline document.
- Effective meeting review: feedback via email on review material as soon as possible (even if comments are minimal), rather than relying on meeting time discussion; acceptable not to encompass all comments in one email - so don't wait until you've addressed every last part.
- When producing FAQs, agreed that it's valid to submit a draft with pertinent questions, rather than all the answers.
- Use of mailing lists: view them as a resource for solutions not just questions. This has benefits in terms of time, where resources are limited, encouragement to others, who may then feel more confident about asking questions.
- Good experience of using IG list: DC question re converting legacy data to Unicode: valuable, expert answers, which are useful in themselves & demonstrate the benefits of the WG time out from the office to colleagues/managers.
- Reminder of mailing lists available: we have 3 lists: IG (almost 400 people), public (most of our business), member. See GEO home page: http://www.w3.org/International/geo/.
- ACTION all: read FTF minutes

Language Techniques 
- RI: Rework styling of resource boxes and add link to external resources document (http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/resources/#ri20030510.102829377)
- Bring test results up-to-date.
FAQ: Global gateway - JY
- RI to discuss with JY  
- for discussion next week 
- Review: sign-off for wide review: following week
FAQ: Unicode upgrade - DC
- Split considerations & benefits as suggested by RI.
- OS/UA info from RI to be incorporated.
- Circulate to public list this week before next meeting
Getting started - SM
- 1st draft deadline: 30 March
- Meeting review should be after circulation with some time for review.
Use of link element - AC  
- Circulation for public list review next week before next meeting 
- 2 weeks time: 1st review of AC link element article



DISCUSSIONS

SITE REDESIGN 
RI will present GEO work to W3C team (31 March) 

GEO home page (http://www.w3.org/International/) shows some new features:
- left-hand side expanding/contracting navigation
- translation icon, which may not be perfect yet 
3 different types of pages 
- home, which is desirable to stand out from other pages 
- information: FAQs, article, etc (all not yet changed), eg, http://www.w3.org/International/about.html#mission
- scan (all changed)
Scan pages: new top navigation: Home  About  Groups  Topics  Techniques  Resources  News

- Does this meet user's needs? 
- In place now as quick fix 
Next port of call, talk to Shawn (WAI) again. Swap notes on lessons she's learned (from year-long page design for WAI). Will discuss:
- site architecture, making WAI & GEO as close as possible
- then will discuss actual styling, where the look & feel could be very different 
- information architecture & presentation styling 

Usability
- Desirable to ensure we are heading in the right direction 

Task scenario testing
- Discount usability: agreement that WIKI page should set up with user profiles & task scenarios drawing from discussions at FTF meeting - ACTION DC
- Task scenarios should consider what the user aims to find & what would be desirable that the user finds in addition.
- 1st thing for WIKI: list of people who are target populations (building on work from FTF).
- Contributions from other team members welcome, especially SM, given expertise in user-centred design.

Task scenario example:
- user profile: experienced web developer with no experience of i18n issues
- user goal: find information about language tag syntax
- additional GEO goal: understand distinction in language of content between text-processing language & primary language

Exploratory learning concept
- Finding information without knowing what you were looking for.
Audience: 
- How does this relate to 'Getting started' material? 
- Can we not put scenarios into place until we have that sort of entry point? 
- User 'arrives' at GEO site, is the info there & can it be found? 
- Who are you & why are you coming here? what are your expectations?

Questionnaire
- Different/separate piece of work to user profiles & task scenarios. 
- Publically visible, therefore would need to be very tight 
- Different set of questions, cf, FTF minutes 

Alternative ideas for user feedback:
- Feedback at bottom of FAQ, eg, "Do you have a topic for an FAQ?" (analogy with news stories). User more likely to engage with it on a FAQ representing information they have actively sought. Elaborate in email to list - ACTION SM
- Did this at one point on GEO, 4/5 people submitted in questions, half/half useful & weird, but used FAQ list.
- Vote widget on FAQ page: "How useful did you find this page?" or "Did this FAQ answer your question?" Elaborate in email to list - ACTION DC
ACTION DC go through FTF minutes & pull out what useful  
could send out I18N request to IG 
as part of this DC to suggest when can be put on GEO agenda 



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