DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME IT Society Website(s) ISIT, Seattle July 2006 J. Nicholas Laneman Online Editor

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Objective Make the ITSoc website(s) even more useful

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME State of Affairs –Interland web hosting (400 avg. visits/day) –Static HTML files (83 Mb) »Mixed content and presentation, inconsistent formats »HTML (8 Mb), Newsletters in PDF (75 Mb) »Some out of date, infrequently visited, or both –Pareja reviewing system (863 Mb) –Contract design, creation, hosting –How long do they last? –Ramping up. Should it be consistent? Will it? –Transactions archive –Password advertised in past Newsletter article –PDFs no longer available? –Society encourages posting preprints

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Presidents’ Wish List General –Stimulate active and new membership –Video archive of Shannon/Plenary lectures –Updated Conferences list (Sponsored, Related, Calendars) –Student Committee Page (Integrate from Cornell?) –Volunteers Page (Needs, Who’s Done What When) –Convenient arXiv access Administrative Archives –Awards committee (Nominations, Discussions, Outcomes) –BoG minutes –Conference status –Treasurer reports –TAB reports –Membership development reports –Publications reports –arXiv reports –IEEE reviews of Society, Transactions

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Goals Leverage all existing content –Make website(s) a primary outlet –Requires a change of mindset, infrastructure, processes –Examples »Shannon/Plenary Lecture Videos »Journal/conference/book archives »Summaries/search of arXiv postings »Newsletter columns »“Membership benefits”, “Getting Involved” Enable user-contributed content with suitable tools –Content Management System (CMS) –Examples »News, Events, Photos »Student Committee (Thesis Abstracts, Tutorials, …) »Directory »Discussion forums, weblogs

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Short-Term Strategy –Interland Web Hosting –Pareja application (PHP) –Develop XHTML+CSS templates –Convert static HTML to XHTML+CSS –ND Web Hosting –Purchase development server –Backup Interland –Plone CMS –Beta-test processes for user-contributed content

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Plone CMS based upon Zope, Python Active development for 5 years Through-the-Web –Creation, Editing –Reviewing (WorkFlow) –Management Other Features –Search –Fine-grained access control –Versioning –Scalability Previous success –NASA, eBay, Nokia, Lufthansa, … –Rice: ECE Dept., Connexions Project

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Demo