Excecutive summary of minutes for the meeting held on November 21, 2006. Items marked with ** have been requested to be placed on the agenda for the next Steering Committee meeting (1/11).

• Darci Hanning from Oregon was nominated as chair of the Project Coordinators Committee and agreed to serve through June 2007.
• Each committee member provided an update from each state (see minutes for details)
• There was a followup discussion on the purpose of http://www.plinkit.org site (currently Oregon's primary/general Plinkit site) as the Plinkit Collaborative main site versus sites for individual states/regions (http://www.colibraries.org/ and http://www.illioniosplinkit.org/). This also led to a brief discussion on what the "footer" should be at the bottom of each Plinkit site to properly acknowledge LSTA funding, the Collaborative overall, etc.
  • ** The committee agreed that the Steering Committee needed to discuss and come up with standard wording that state/regional Plinkit sites as well as individual Plinkit library sites should use.**
  • http://www.plinkit.org/ will be transformed into the general Plinkit Collaborative site by the end of December. Darci will put the general  framework in place and committee members will determine what functions and sections are needed.
• The committee discussed the need for professional logos to represent individual libraries in addition to a selection of "skins" for libraries to choose from (see http://unioncounty.plinkit.org/ for an example of a different "skin").
  • Colorado and Texas both shared that they have in-house graphic designers and/or web developers to assist with logos. Oregon and Illinois do not and so may need to come up with alternative approaches.
  • ** The committee recommends that the Steering Committee move forward with funding the development of five to six Plone skins for use by individual libraries.**
• Darci will discuss with Toni Mantych approaches that the Collaborative could use to manage updates to the master/original versions of the Plinkit Training and Adminstrator's manual while individual states are modifying their own copies for local use, etc, and report back to the committee.
• ** In addition to having Plone skins developed, the committee recommends that Steering Committee move forward with funding the development of software/scripts to 1) automate Plone upgrades and 2) automate duplicating Plinkit sites.**
• The committee briefly discussed what web reporting tools were available and should be used. In general, Plone sites can/do use the available, third-party web-reporting tools. Darci shared that AWStats, WUsage, and Google/Plone Analytics are popular among other Plone sites. The committee recommends that the Technical Advisory Group investigate this further and agreed that each state may choose to come up with their own reporting solution.
• The committee determined how the review process for the Plinkit Administrator's Manual will be handled (each state will be able to participate). Darci is to confirm a weekly schedule with Toni Mantych.
• **Separate mailing lists for each Collaborative committee -- the committee would like to use the Steering Committee mailing list on a limited basis to distribute minutes and general announcements we feel would be important for the Steering Committee to be aware of.**
• Sharon Morris asked if anyone was interested in being part of panel/presentation at LITA 2007 (October in Denver) and/or PLA 2008. Proposals are due Dec 15, 2006 for LITA and Nov 30, 2006 for PLA. Sharon will distribute the proposals to the committee before submitting.
• The next meeting for the Project Coordinators Committee will be on January 16, 2007 via web conferencing (Tom to set up).