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Imager Web: Status & To-Do (2008-09)

Updated Aug 09 2009 - KM

ANDRE, PLEASE COMMENT BELOW WHEN TASKS ARE DONE: replace [NOT DONE] with [DONE mm/dd]

• Web redesigner Contact: André Malan- 778 558 4516 andre.malan@ubc.ca
• GOAL: release by mid-August
• Current stable prototype version (php): http://imager.andremalan.org/imager.php

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ACTION ITEMS FOR ANDRE

[NOT DONE] Porting contact list to Imager twiki

• ascertain whether full contact list for students go on twiki? If twiki is written in php, should be simple.
  • --> inform KM. If can, give assessment if whether this is so simple Andre can do it quickly; if not really simple, then we need to hand it off to someone else.

[NOT DONE] Document:

• transfer "process" notes onto twiki, start organizing (probably best to organize by WHO does the task, with possible prominent subcategores being the topic, like News, Student Records, etc); and Frequency (like, once/year, once/month, etc).
• Items to include:
  • • Process for moving students to alumni (Juliet; but, is add'l contact info supplied by prof?)
    • See also references below, e.g. Under News.
    • Important NOW: instructions on how to modify text content that pertains to yourself, e.g. faculty bio info.

[NOT DONE] Postdocs need own list

• same style as grad students? (is problem that don't have right data?)

[NOT DONE??] Upper right image:

• • Right now, the tag is manually constructed and linked. (done by McLachlan, we believe).
  • Suggest: flat organization (not by professor)
  • New plan: files named in convention heidrich_15; associated with tag (title and full author list), and link to paper (eventually; for now, to pubs page?)

[NOT DONE] News:

• Right sidebar (news) needs to be automatically connected to center News section (done)
  • Put past years into "year" folders. Annual task, mid-year is to dump previous calendar year into a year file and link it in, following current example (which Andre will implement) * is it possible to have right sidebar, individual items, cut off after X characters (several lines) then end in "more" with a link to the full item in News section? So more items can fit on a page. (done)
• Fix formatting (parser is written for OLT, just need to retrieve it).

[NOT DONE] Images of Imager:

• good photos, some professionally acquired, laid out carefully one time. This is not an automatically updated repository.
  • rename the section to "images of imager"
  • make "large thumbnails" (w/ varying aspect ratios) smaller than now, e.g. ~3/row.
  • [For now, use current images, and plan to augment or swap when get better ones.]

[NOT DONE] Banner

• • If possible, in redesign make it thinner.
  • KM 8/08: the "CS|Computer Science" is graphically quite awkward. How about making "imager lab" a little smaller; putting "CS}Computer Science" to right side of banner; moving banner more central; vertically aligning all 3 elements, and downsizing til it fits.
  • KM 8/09: HCI -> User Interfaces (I just decided that we don't want an acronym here anyway, and this finesses the issue of HCI versus Haptics)

[NOT DONE] *faculty / Research page:

• • KM 8/09: change "HCI/Haptics" on hci.php -> User Interfaces: * and on line below: Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Haptics (done)
  • KM 8/09: rename hci.php -> userInterfaces.php
  • Move "associates" to bottom of each category (e.g. Fels to bottom of Graphics)
  • otherwise, put in alphabetic order (here and on research page)
  • Murphy is an Associate
  • Meitner/sheppard might need to switch groups (KM will check w/ Munzner)
  • Create and/or correctly populate the three research pages (graphics etc). [waiting for faculty to supply mat'l]
  • on graphics.php, Bridson bio has a typo "ExoticMatter" seems out of place.
  • Dinesh Pai's bio spills past picture - looks like formatting needs to be cleaned up to handle this situation.

[NOT DONE] *Courses

• • See "Courses" section under Faculty to-do list for overview
  • structure page into 3 areas (linked from top), and populate with the existing courses.
  • remove the descriptions (or just keep the first couple of sentences; but compact everything so courses for a given area roughly fit above the crease. E.g the web link can be incorporated into the title listing; drop prerequisites.
  • link to course schedule pages (ugrad, grad) at top with note: "For current schedule information, see [undergrad] [grad] "
  • remove other notes at top of page *
  • Otherwise awaiting content from faculty

[NOT DONE] Joining Imager

• Awaiting faculty content

[NOT DONE] Publications:

• • drop old publications page content into current one
  • same for theses
  • Malan to coordinate with Brad Swerdfeger on this
  • [we will maintain status quo on pubs database til dept change online (early 2010??)

BUG LIST (broken links etc)

• [fixed] News and events, right sidebar title - broken link

Completed items

• [DONE 8/4/09] combine grads, undergrads
• plus a lot of other stuff...

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ACTION ITEMS FOR KARON:

• [DONE] assign "other imager faculty" action items
• [DONE] get Andre access to Imager Twiki (CS ID Q0T6, cwl = ramcio)

• [DONE] find what current status on pubs database is from Wolfgang and Moyra
  • --> status quo for at least another year

• [NOT DONE] photos: have professional photographer come through in early Sept, when there is lots of activity?
  • Tried to delegate to van de panne / McGrenere - confirm??

• [DONE] Courses: take a look and decide what needs to happen here (farming out, reorg) needs to be looked at and improved
  • see notes in COURSES section below

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ACTION ITEMS FOR JULIET:

• [NOT DONE] Alumni: start an alumni database which is same format as students database.

... When a student graduates, their record is simply moved into the alumni database along with any new contact info provided by professor.

• [NOT DONE] People data file (students, postdocs):
  • make sure it's updated.
  • postdocs are currently not listed in the same way; have different fields. JOK needs to fix this.

• [NOT DONE] meeting page. Which meeting belong here, which elsewhere; calendar (google) or list display; can we keep it simple, and who maintains?
  • Imager fac agreed that Catalog belongs on website, for all; those which are "public" include pointers to further information. Request Juliet to solicit/compile the catalog.

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ACTION ITEMS FOR OTHER IMAGER FACULTY

ABOUT US SECTION

• [NOT DONE] Lab overview - JOANNA
  • includes NEW photos, to come from professional (drop the existing photos and separate section at bottom of

• • Include brief list of great places where our students go to work (solicit examples from entire group)

• [NOT DONE] History: "short wikipedia" entry - KELLY ???
  • this section might get worked into the Lab Overview. Keep separate for now.

• [NOT DONE] Finding Us - TAMARA

• [DONE-check?] lab Contact page - JULIET / KARON

• [NOT DONE] Meetings: - JULIET
  • JOK, can you please collect this list from faculty, with links and designation, and put it into a text file?
  • plan: this will be a catalog not calendar; intended for advertising purposes.
  • It will provide a LIST of meetings including links (URL or personal contact), and designation of open or private.

PEOPLE SECTION

• [NEED: KELLY, JOANNA, TAMARA, WOLFGANG, ALLA, MICHIEL, RON] Faculty bios (xx words) and photo for each professor (later, these will be text-editable directly by the prof, but give to Andre in first pass) - (done: Dinesh, Robert, Karon)
  • Probably word limit = 50; embedded links fine.
  • Update your mugshot if desired

• [DONE - check?] Staff - Information about Juliet - JULIET / KARON

• [PARTLY DONE] Research area overview text: this is a short (2-3 sentence) overview at top of each of the three research subgroup pages.
  • Graphics - done
  • User Interfaces - done, needs approval by group
  • Viz - awaiting [TAMARA]

• • examples (shorter and longer respectively than our target): http://hci.usask.ca/ and http://web.cs.toronto.edu/research/groups/hci.htm

COURSES SECTION

• The plan: turn our courses into a shorter list, sorted into the three areas but grad/ugrad continuous, with course number, title and a couple of sentences.
• additionally, within each area section follow our courses with "external courses", which include dept, name/number and remarks like "most HCI graduate students are expected to take this one"

• [NOT DONE] courses: EVERYONE
  • Supply 1-2 sentences for the course that you nominally "own".
  • E.g. TAMARA/ROBERT -> 314; KARON -> 344, 543; JOANNA -> 444, 544; TAMARA 533C, ETC
  • EVERYONE: review external list and contribute remarks like "most HCI students are expected to take this one."

• • Ugrad, grad, external; we will use a flat list in numerical order since short.

JOINING IMAGER SECTION

• [NOT DONE] Joining Imager - TAMARA
  • TAMARA will take first pass, or farm out to someone else
  • ALLA has "information for prospective graduate students" on her website which could be used as reference.