Ubuntu News Team - Discussion and Planning of NEW WordPress Fridge

RoadMap

• Objective - Migrate Fridge to WordPress

• Success Criteria - Fridge will utilize WordPress rather than Drupal

• Actions - Canonical (Joey)

  • to migrate earlier Fridge content to new WordPress Fridge

  • New Fridge Theme Based on New Ubuntu "light" Theme

  • Current Fridge Editors trained on Imput procedures for new WordPress Fridge

  • Fridge Content to be adjusted based on "Information Radiator" model

    • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InformationRadiator

    • http://theagileexecutive.com/2010/03/15/how-to-construct-a-great-information-radiator/

• Blueprint (optional) - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fridge/+spec/community-m-fridge-and-news-team

• Driver (optional) - Joey Stanford

• Objective - Re-Design of Content on Fridge

• Success Criteria - Implementation accepted ideas

• Actions - Review Ideas for Content Restructure and implement accepted ideas

  • Ubuntu Community at a Glance - community form...what the dev teams are doing, loco teams...etc....toward the release - semi-graphic showing a title, a status indicator, and holding a link for more information
  • to be able to embed images and video
  • link to the forum is a pita - better/faster way to get information to the Forums
  • a way for non-team members to post to the Fridge for approval Fridge Team - suggestion to have x number of news team members review and ack or nack it for a successful peer review model so community material written specifically for the Fridge.
  • Separate Links to Various Calendars

    • Calendar for Meetings held in -Meetings (If LoCa, Classroom, and FOSSEvents Calenders/Links are added the we will need to leave wording for what the Fridge Calendar is for or change wording based on implementation or non-implementation of suggested Calendars/Links added to Fridge)

    • Calendar for LoCo Team IRC meetings and events Calendar

      • LoCo Calendar would need to be created (short term)

        • If possible this Calendar could be linked or Pull information from/to LoCo Directory (Long Term Goal)

        • LoCo Team leaders/contacts as well as Newsletter and Fridge Editors

    • Calendar for Sessions held in -classroom
    • Link to FOSSEvents.com Calendar

• Blueprint (optional) - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fridge/+spec/community-m-fridge-and-news-team

• Driver (optional) - TBD

* Objective - Health check of UWN content & categories

• Success Criteria - Lucid-ize the UWN

• Actions - roundtable

* Objective - Optimization of the multiple Launchpad news teams

• Success Criteria - streamlining the duplicate and unused LP news teams

• Actions - roundtable