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Creation Review: Phoenix

Creation Review: Phoenix. The eclipse.org redesign project Eclipse Foundation. Project Goal. To create a professional website that all participants in the Eclipse community will find helpful and useful in their interactions with Eclipse projects, members and the Foundation. Project Goals.

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Creation Review: Phoenix

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  1. Creation Review: Phoenix The eclipse.org redesign project Eclipse Foundation

  2. Project Goal To create a professional website that all participants in the Eclipse community will find helpful and useful in their interactions with Eclipse projects, members and the Foundation

  3. Project Goals • Improve the accessibility and quality of the information needed by the community to perform their tasks; provide a single access point to that information; link and rationalize the information, thereby reducing duplication of information and removing access to out-of-date information • Make technology available (easy to find, understand and download)a) Tools (such as plug-ins)b) Resources (support information for those tools) • Establish publishing models (workflow) and guidelines for Eclipse.org • Implement collaboration tools (e.g. wiki, blogs) and make the most of networking opportunities • Create a showcase for members and the community • Establish user profile administration (if necessary)

  4. Some Technical Goals • Get rid of frames! • Base the implementation on a modern, F/OSS content management system • Distribute the website maintenance to the leaves (the users) where possible while retaining a common "branded" look and feel

  5. Project Values • The Eclipse.org web site should… • Be community focused • Place emphasis on clarity of content in its delivery • Provide an open, meritocratic and equal playing field for users • Reflect the character of the entire ecosystem.

  6. Identified Audiences 1. Users2. Committers3. Contributors4. Plug-In Developer5. Members

  7. Who is currently involved? • Eclipse Foundation Staff: • Mike Milinkovich • Denis Roy • Ian Skerrett • Bjorn Freeman-Benson • Andrew Gerharty • IBM • Susan Iwai

  8. Status • Requirements defined • Tool selection in progress • Many expressions of interest and support on newsgroup • 92 messages to date • Single funniest posting to a newsgroup ever! • Planning dates (still TBC) • June 30: Final selection of CMS tool • Sept. 30: Deployment of Foundation content on new platform • Project migrations to happen on a per-project timetable

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