Re: Modern Tribe & W3C Website Redesign!

Hi Coralie,

A big thank you for answering these questions for us! Sorry for the late
reply, end of year tends to pick up from time to time. We're working away
on your solution and we're really excited to hear feedback from your team
once we've submitted it this Friday!

Have a great day,

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 7:38 AM Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> I became aware of your e-mails just now. I apologize I couldn’t respond
> earlier; other things have kept me busy since Friday.
>
> Are you aware that we published a FAQ last Friday?
>   https://www.w3.org/2019/11/website-redesign-rfp.html#faq
>
> I believe a number of your questions are covered already.
>
> Here’s to fill some of the gap:
>
> ● 2.1 Why Are We Doing This: ​When you reference the website as, “NOT
> being a primary driver of sales,”
> ○ Is this a statement, or a problem you’re looking to remedy with the
> redesign project?
>
> -> A statement. We meant to clarify early that we were not looking to
> develop an e-commerce site. However, we have an interest in making
> crowdfunding a part of what can be done on our website. The current website
> makes it hard to.
>
>
> ● 3.3 Key Audiences & Benefits:
> ○ Will we have access to sets of the audiences you’ve outlined in this
> section? Including them in our process will help us best understand how we
> can achieve their goals.
>
> -> We probably will be able to encourage some individuals in these
> audience to volunteer time.
>
>
> ● 4.1 Phases:​ The design chosen for Phase I needs to look at the rest of
> the site, so we don’t run any risk that Phase I will not scale well to
> cover the expectations for the rest of the site.
> ○ Are we keeping some consistency between old and new design as we work
> through the different phases?
>
> -> I don’t know. Not necessarily. I wouldn’t want the design that is
> developed in phase 1 to be constrained by the 2008 design. Informed, yes.
>
>
> ●  4.1 Phases: V​ertical industries landing pages.
> ○  Are you referring to the pages on the homepage of W3.ORG under the
> header “Web and Industry”?
> ○  Could you provide more clarity around the deliverables for this part of
> scope?
>
> -> Yes. This is basically redesigning those pages, if they ought to be
> part of the phase 1 overhaul, as determined by the discovery phase in
> information architecture.
>
>
> ●  4.1 Phases: P​ublic Work Groups homepages (ala IETF data tracker).
> ○ Are you referring to homepages for each Group found in a list on this
> page https://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities​ that includes
> Accessibility Guidelines, Audio, Automotive, Publishing... etc.,
>
> -> Yes and no. In phase 1, we want to “create” a category of pages called
> public work group homepages. We’d have as many as we have work groups and
> they’d ideally be automatically populated using the W3C API. They would
> represent a layer between <https://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities​> and
> the various individual web spaces that the work groups maintain themselves.
> In a future phase, I’d like that category of pages to subsume the latter.
>
>
> ● 4.1 Phases:​ We noticed you have multiple regions accessible from the
> main page. Ex, Austria, Australia, Spain.
> ○ Are all of those regions in-scope for this project?
>
> -> Maybe. We would like the ability to make available a subset of our
> Website in a given language, as opposed to relying currently on websites
> owned and maintained separately.
>
>
> ●  4.3 Services; Design: A​ dopt, or define & draft a website governance
> document / project specification / design system.
> ○ Are you using any governance tool for accessibility and compliance
> today, like SiteImprove?
>
> -> No.
>
> ●  4.3 Services; Development:​ M​ ultilingual site, language negotiation
> (e.g., Accept-Language header in combination with page links to alternate
> languages, and 'sticky' content negotiation techniques)
> ○  How are you currently translating the website?
> ○  Is it done manually?
>
>
> ●  4.3 Services; Development: C​ontent migration
> […]
> -> The W3C Systems team will perform content migration. We may need
> advice/consulting, however.
>
>
> Coralie
>
>
>
> > On 2 Dec 2019, at 18:06 , Michael Hofweller <michael@tri.be> wrote:
> >
> > <Modern Tribe Questios for W3C (1).pdf>
>
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> Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  https://www.w3.org
> mailto:coralie@w3.org +337 810 795 22 https://www.w3.org/People/Coralie/
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