Roll Call –

Bev Obert, Darci Hanning, Tine Walczyk, Holly Gordon, Steve Gregory, Troy Brown, Michael Piper from INCOLSA – minutes taken by Justine Shaffner

Approve 5/29/08 Tech Group and 6/29 ALA Meeting Minutes –

Gordon made a motion to approve the 5/29/08 minutes and Hanning second and all said aye – approved.  Since most haven’t seen the 6/29 minutes their approval will be an item on the next agenda.

Election of new Tech Group Chair for ’08-’09 - Holly had nominated Steve Gregory and Darci seconded –

Gregory is new chair

Set regular date for joint PC/Tech Group meetings - Do monthly or every two months? -

Gregory says once per month – Hanning and others agree.  We will meet 2^nd Friday of every month 9am PT, 10am RMT, 11 CT, 12 noon ET, except august will be 8/15 –  send reminders

Status reports from each state -

CO – Gregory said things going along steadily and not doing any new sites until have new Project Coordinator.  He’s done the statistics for last month and is on vacation starting tomorrow.

OR – Hanning said there was nothing new.  She’ll be focusing on some content update and has two more sites in queue to bring up and then won’t do any for a couple of months so she can get caught up.

TX – Walczyk has nothing new since Anaheim meeting but is having an internal coordinators’ meeting this week and expects to get some feedback and questions.  Texas has 65 sites up and 75 in the process of coming up.

IL – Brown said he counts 52 live sites with 84 in the pipeline. He and Gregory will be going to NC Plone Boot camp at the end of the month.

Innovative things done by states – add to website-

Everyone was asked to do this.  Gregory mentioned CO doing ROI calculator – he’ll post it at website.  Hanning discussed blog and how states need to make one contribution each to the blog per month (that doesn’t come from the state website (since PC (Plinkit Project Coordinator Shaffner) is getting material for the main news blog from there).  Contributions can be news, tech stuff…. The Project Coordinators will be responsible for the contributions.

States report on contributions to website since last meeting -

No one has added anything lately!

Update on Plinkit 2.0 Statement of Work -

Shaffner mentioned this agenda item was originally “Discussion of Darci’s email “Thoughts on Plinkit 3.0.”  Gregory has been working on it and sent out some questions.  Brown asked about Appendix A and the products included and Gregory said he was wondering about the reason for this.  Hanning said the intent is to make sure folks we hire know which products will be included in the master template and she said it shouldn’t include stuff that is state specific.  This is to get the vendors the info they need to create the master Plinkit product.  Hanning will be focusing on the SOW this week and hopes to get it out by Friday and have it approved by the end of next week so we can send it out to vendors. 

Hanning asked who has added products to the base Plinkit site.  IL has Analytics for Plone, but in Plone 3.0 that’s built into the core.  Brown said they are also using Plone Form Gen and Help Generator.  Gregory said there isn’t anything that’s been added for all CO sites.  TX said they added Windows Z so they could support I Frames.  Hanning will see if it’s in Plone 3.0, but said even if it isn’t it shouldn’t be hard to get it to work.  TX also has local feeds.  Hanning said TX and IN will be test cases to see how they can change the master template.  Part of the SOW will be documentation on how to create new products to add them to the template so that states who want additional things can add stuff themselves.  Try to get your final comments to Hanning by Wednesday noon PT.  Gregory on vacation so will respond when he gets back. Hanning will pull all comments into a final draft form

Contacts for various aspects of the contract - define aspects we need contacts for and choose lead for each and define responsibilities -

Once RFQ finalized, Hanning will give the PC a list of vendors to send it to.  PC will be in touch w/ vendors as needed.  Tech questions will come back to the technical group.  After getting answers, all vendors will be informed of them so they all have the same info. 

Someone will need to look at User’s Manual to see if it needs to be rewritten – revamp it or do it from scratch?  And Administrator’s Manual needs a lead also.  We can prepare now or wait until we have software to move forward with.  We need someone from the Collaborative to be a subject matter expert (though they can ask the Collaborative for input).

-Hanning and Tech Group will take responsibility for the Administrator’s Manual and Plone 2.0.

-Brown will do skins.

-Gordon will take responsibility for User’s Manual  with Walczyk and Jerry as Walczyk does lots of user training.

Introduce Chris (Darci’s new hire) -

Chris not here but will be at next meeting – he just finished Plone Bootcamp.

Mention if INCOLSA joining -

Piper said INCOLSA is joining and the paperwork is being developed now.  PALINET will probably be joining with them.  Piper said he’s delighted to be joining Plinkit and said hi to Gordon who he used to work with.

Everyone’s thoughts and comments on the RFQ

Eliminated this item as it was basically the same topic as the “Update on Plinkit 2.0 Statement of Work.”

Other Business -