- From: Joe Daddario <joe@shrthnd.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:27:08 -0500
- To: public-website-redesign@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAPsMJtJOcrS3QsxmWC+RGqFb-qnWN6uuq4_7Qe7sBhLaOZwfxQ@mail.gmail.com>
Coralie et al., this sounds like a fantastic project. The RFP does a solid job outlining the goals, objectives, and expected outcomes--kudos to the contributors. Here are my immediate questions: 1. What are the biggest challenges currently faced when administering W3C members and managing W3C group operations? 2. Where/how the current website hosted? Has the organizations business processes and/or technology "stack" been documented? 3. About how much does it cost (yearly) to operate and maintain the website and related business processes (i.e., hosting, transactional emails, uptime monitoring services, etc.) Have you discussed a specific budget for this project or upper limits for operating costs moving forward? 4. Have you had any internal discussion about appropriate CMSs and/or ideal editorial and administrative workflows? 5. Besides leveraging an open-source analytics library and MFA based on the webauthn specification, does the W3C have guidelines or preferences related to platforms/technologies? 6. How has the legacy website being preserved? (Version control? Database backups? Big ol' zip files on tape-drives in a closet somewhere?) 7. Is website content separate from the presentation-layer (the theme and global UI) of the website? It sounds like culling/crafting a good bit of content may be necessary but I'm wondering what could/should be automatically migrated to preserve legacy and save on manual content entry.... I don't see how the final process won't be a mix of both processes. 7. When the redesigned website launches in Dec. 2020, will this include the areas noted in the RFP as "future phases": *Member and team spaces, internal (non-restricted) Work Groups homepages, specifications template, mailing lists archives, W3C Community Groups and Business Groups, wikis*? 8. How will tough decisions be handled? Is the advisory committee purely democratic or is there a single individual who will be responsible for "signing off" on decisions made about the design/architecture/implementation of the redesigned website moving forward? Thank you, Joe Daddario Resilient Systems, LLC
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