Plinkit Tech Group Meeting - Wed Jan 16, 2008
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Minutes

Present:
Steve Gregory - Colorado
Darci Hanning - Oregon
Holly Gordon - Texas
Sharon Morris - Colorado
Bev Obert - Illinois

Status Reports
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Colorado:
 - Upgraded kupu editor to v1.4.7 yesterday.  Some issues were observed (colors changed, undo gone, spellchecking not present).  Will inquire of Plone community.
Oregon:
 - Plunking along.
 - All RSS feeds created from ODP pages no longer work (they were based on a web service that is no longer responding). In the default Plinkit site, this is 5-7 Espanol feeds and one Kids/Teen feed. Darci is investigating alternative web services to re-create those feeds (e.g. Dapper, Yahoo Pipes). Sharon commented that nothing from ODP is used in Colorado and has found alternate feeds.
 ACTION -> Please send Darci a list of addition and/or more appropriate rss feeds that your states are using
 - 3-4 more libs to get configured & trained.  No more before June 1
 - Current total: 36 libs - about a fourth of public libs in Oregon
Texas:
 - Holding pattern - no access to test box
 - IBM (keeper of our server) wants to switch back to Red Hat
 - Has added 2 more sites since December
Illinois:
 - Ryan has a new job but can still do some plinkit work on contract
 - New content is available on plinkit.org site
 - Target: 120 libs online by end of June
 - Illinois has produced some how-to videos

Spending Money
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Tech group may make reccommendations to Project coordinators group, which may spend money

Possible upcoming projects:
- We will produce an updated admin manual
- Hire quarter or half time project coordinator
ACTION-> Ideas for spending money:  fwd to Darci

Status of Joel's work
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- Joel was very ill for ~6wk, is back to work as of Monday this week
- Color palettes done
- Close to finalizing template bifurcations
- Working on documenting process for new members
- Testing upgrade of plinkit version
- Joel & Darci having regular phone mtgs on Wed's
- With new version: install using unified installer.
- Reduces size of install docs
- New scheme for customizing?
- Darci is hoping to arrange plone boot camp in portland ~early summer
- After next week, hope to have a better timeline

Skins & color schemes
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- Darci has sent a batch of color schemes to joel
- Joel will document process for adding new color schemes
- Waiting for Ryan to post some info to collaborative site

Recurring Events
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- Defintely not compatible w/plone 2.1
- Works OK with plone 2.5
- Andy is aware of some stuff that still needs wotk
- After upgrade: Plinkit 2.0/Plone 2.5
- New sites should be set up in plone 2.5.

Unified Installer
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For installing a Plone instance on a linux server - installs python/zope/plone/apache in one step instead of separately
-> Learn more about Plone unified installer (see info on plone.org)

Need to post more materials to collaborative site
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-> Goal: post more useful stuff.
- Current Examples include:
  - marketing matls
  - how to get your site listed in search engines
   - tips & tricks
   - new skins
   - master templates

Spell check options
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- Spell check is available in kupu 1.3.9+
- You can upgrade kupu any time without upgrading plone
- For problems with product: email to duncan booth (kupu product coordinator) with questions
-> (Colorado) send updated info to group after testing

Upcoming meetings
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***Next tech group meeting:  fri feb 22, same time
Next project coord mtg : no date set yet
Next steering cmtee mtg:  1/25/2008

To-do items
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-> (Colorado) Continue testing kupu 1.4 and send updated
information to tech group
-> (All) Post more useful stuff to Plinkit collaborative site
-> (All) Learn more about Plone unified installer
-> (All) Ideas for spending money:  fwd to Darci
-> Please send darci a list of more suitable rss feeds