Web Advisory Committee2011-01-19

OverviewCMS Project Status Update

• Project objective• Project deliverables• Project timelines• CMS pilot demos (upcoming)• Web capabilities model• UI end-user testing (and Drupal 7)• System administration• Communications with other universities

Project objective

Pilot implementation of the web content management system (Drupal) for university-wide use

Project deliverables

Key project deliverables

1. CMS configuration to support 1000+ websites, .5M+ web pages, 1000-2000 web-content maintainers

2. A few pilot websites within the CMS to test the configuration

3. An implementation strategy and plan for university rollout of the CMS

4. A UI training and support plan for end-users (i.e. web-content maintainers)

Project timelines

High-level project timelines

1. Training and support plan – Sep 2011

2. Implementation strategy and plan – Sep 2011

3. Pilot websites – finalized Sep 2011, iterations during pilot project

4. Engineering early adopter – move into CMS in Sep 2011

Pilot demos

Upcoming pilot demos

• Blogging capability (Jan 19 – WAC)

• Housing pilot – iteration 1 (Feb 18 – IST Fri Morning Seminar)

• uWaterloo main pilot – iteration 1 (Mar 18 – IST Fri Morning Seminar)

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/istweb/profdev/profdev.html

Blogging capability

• Pilot blogs– Waterloo CMS Project– Engineering Web Communications– UI implementation and technical testing at this time

• University rollout – after Sep 2011– UI implementation needs to be tested, finalized, in place– Training and support needs to be in place

Housing pilot

Focus of Housing pilot - iteration #1• UI implementation (content types)• Test dataset • Unit theme implementation• Subset of functionality – WatIAM integration, user

profiles, user permissions, etc.

uWaterloo main pilot

uWaterloo main in CMS will be developed as a pilot (beta first)

UI testing & Drupal 7

• UI testing with end-users – March 2011• Assessing readiness of Drupal 7 – March 2011

– UI readiness vs. customization (admin UI)

Web capabilities model

• Web capabilities– Websites capability*– Blogging capability*– Events calendar capability*– Forms capability– Forums capability– Newsletter capability– Photo gallery capability– Publications capability

• Overview of capabilities model

System administration

1. Acknowledgement that this is a software development project

2. Revamped SVN to better meet development, testing and production needs related to CMS implementation, maintenance and backup

3. Currently working on integration of SVN with RT

Other universities

Regular communications with other universities that have implemented Drupal

Paying attention to lessons learned and best practices

Sharing information about timelines, implementations, and training and support