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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] move prototype onto CS server, into current imager webspace with a ghost link so faculty can start editing directly.

[NOT DONE] Documentation:

• 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] History

• try to break up big block of text. Wish list: neat old photos, artifacts of old days that Kelly might have around? Original founding faculty photo?? Kelly might have (Karon will ask him)

[ALMOST DONE] Finding Us

• add top link for "tips"
• check permissions on maps links (floor maps) - still not working - check w/ someone else

[NOT DONE] Contact list - see Karon's source mt'l from mid Aug

[MOSTLY DONE] News & Events

• Keep most recent 10 items (can adjust this) and automatically put everything else into a SINGLE archive. Which could be manually cleaned out when someone notices.

[NOT DONE] Meetings: waiting on Juliet

[NOT DONE] Photos -> Images of Imager --- mostly waiting for Michiel

• Michiel van de Panne is the person to bug. Grad students might take photos; can ask them to also generate thumbnails of desired size (smaller than existing)
• rename to "images of imager"
• good photos, some professionally acquired, laid out carefully one time. This is not an automatically updated repository.
  • 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] Faculty

• Remove all associates from both Faculty and Research pages.
• Missing Michiel's bio (he needs to supply)

[NOT DONE] Students and postdocs: private contact

• Put FULL student and postdoc contact info on private webpage (not twiki, which won't work well). Use same mechanism for updating as for public list.

[NOT DONE] students and postdocs public page

• populate!
• working with Juliet, ADD a "comments" column which will be on both public and private page; and ensure that the "ROLE" field is very consistent, limited to a small number of preset options. Any elabaoration on them like "on leave" or "research technician" or "visitor" should be in the comment field. See Juliet action item below.

[NOT DONE] alumni

• hide until we have accumulated a database consisting of former students migrated into an alumni database. But, otherwise set it up with a few manually entered items.

[ALMOST DONE] Research / Graphics etc

• Link names at start of blurbs; remove caption names.
• HCI/Haptics tag in left menu: hold off until HCI fac decide what to call it

[NOT DONE] Publications & Theses

• papers need to be dumped
• We need a plan for theses. Current database is not well populated. For now, Andre will dump what we have.

[ALMOST DONE] Courses

• contrast between 1st and 2nd level headings - add a thin line delineation; could use this elsewhere (finding us, etc check other pages w/ sections)
• consistency in linking (respond to faculty requests checking first pass)

[ALMOST DONE] Joining Imager.

* remove the notes par when done with it

[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?)

[ALMOST DONE] Banner - waiting on HCI fac

• • HCI -> User Interfaces (waiting for HCI group to confirm or change this)

BUG LIST (broken links etc)

• [fixed] News and events, right sidebar title - broken link
• navigation "Local" link should have "logon" instead of "view" inside the URL to bugs.cs.ubc.ca for the Imager wiki.

Completed items

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

[DONE] News:

• no outstanding items

[DONE] Staff:

• drop the bullet
• BF the name

[DONE] *faculty / Research page:

• • RB et al. 8/19/09: move associate faculty to a separate list at bottom, out of graphics/user interface/vis categories.
  • KM 8/18/09: HCI/Haptics on left sidebar -> User Interfaces
  • KM 8/03/09: change "HCI/Haptics" on hci.php -> User Interfaces: * and on line below: Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Haptics (done)
  • KM 8/03/09: rename hci.php -> userInterfaces.php

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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):
  • (not done!) make sure it's updated.
  • Working with Andre: ADD a "comments" column; ensure that the "ROLE" field is very consistent, limited to a small number of preset options. Any elabaoration on them like "on leave" or "research technician" or "visitor" should be in the comment field. See Juliet action item below. Categories:
    • M.Sc.
    • Ph.D.
    • Postdoc
    • Undergrad
    • Research Associate

• [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.