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A few upkeep items
  1. Batch delete
    1. Matthieu : I get an error whenever I try to batch delete spamming accounts. Do you experience the same problem ?
    2. Anand : Yes, I also get this.
    3. Nick Ìý: We should create a ticket in Trac for SFU.
  2. Ìý Privacy for logins
    1. Anand :Ìý Right now it seems that if you are a generic user and you log in, when you "see changes" you can also see who else has logged in recently, which to my mind is a bit intrusive. ÌýSo we may want to consider making the login timeÌýinformation / profile changes visible only to administrators, say.
    2. Matthieu :Ìý You're right, and I think Nick raised the issue with SFU a while Ìýback. If I remember correctly, it may not be that easy to fix.
    3. Adriaan: I agree!
    4. Nick Ìý: I talked this over with SFU, but then I used this "feature" to catch someone in a lie. ÌýSo I don't mind having it.
  3. Administrator Mode (Adriaan)Ìý
    1. Adriaan :Ìý I think I already mentioned it once, but I think that even for theÌýadministrators it would be nice to have an "edit mode" and a "viewÌýmode". In the view mode, I'd like to have a similar look and feelÌýas a normal user, and in the edit mode, we'd have the interface asÌýwe see it now. I don't know whether this is easy, but maybe we canÌýask.
    2. Amin :Ìý I am more interested inÌýseeing what I have done, as a user or an editor. I have a similarÌýsuggestion to Adriaan. But, in the "edit mode" I would like to see whatÌýI have done or even partly done. For example consider creating a news.ÌýOn the top page we can only see three last news. So, when I create aÌýnews sometimes I have t o wait for a couple of days to activate anotherÌýnews, so all the news have visibility. During these days, there are soÌýmuch recent changes that I cant find them in the recent changes. I keepÌýthe links. However, it would be nice that I can see what I have createdÌýor partly created.
    3. Amin :Ìý Also, that would be interesting if in the "view mode" we can haveÌýregional (or whatever the user set) changes. Right now if I post anÌýevent for kitchener/waterloo section in Canada, this news/event will beÌýposted on recent changes of everybody. For example if we can give someÌýoptions to a user to localize the news that might be interesting. ForÌýexample he/she might be interested in regional activities/news/... orÌýsome regional neighbors. He /she may be interested in activities inÌýhis/her country, .... I am not sure if this implementation would be anÌýexpensive implementation or hard/easy one.'
    4. Nick Ìý: Easiest way to have more than one view of the system would be to create a user account with minimal privileges that we all share to check the non-admin mode. ÌýAnd to see the content you have created, you can simply go toÌýhttp://www.itsoc.org/author/<username>.
  4. Registration policy
    1. Anand :Ìý We should put some guidelines on the registration page so people know to put their affiliation, one ITSOC publication, etc to help us decide whether to activate their profile. ÌýEmailing 90% of people who try to register is getting to be a pain. ÌýI tried to figure out how to edit the createMember page/script, but didn't see how.
    2. Matthieu :Ìý Ok, that will be mentioned to SFU asap.
    3. Adriaan :Ìý So you mean that we ask applicants to provide more informationbeforehand, and have the website check that all fields are filledÌýout? Would an alternative be to get registration info from previousÌýISIT(s) and populate a database with that information? This informationÌýis probably more detailed, and we could use some of that to interactÌýwith this site. It would also make it easier if we were to think ofÌýusing the site for conf. organization. I'd be happy to be involved inÌýsuch a discussion. ÌýPopulating some database from previous conferences would be a very goodÌý
      option, as a back-up (Just remember that there are some people with theÌýsame name). Do we have access to such info.?
    4. Anand : That would involve writing a translation script of some sort and would cost $$$, so I'm not sure it's worth doing, especially if we are not planning to integrate conference management into the existing site *yet*. ÌýFor the future it would of course be nice.
    5. Nick Ìý: My impression has been that this would become very expensive, and we have higher-priority needs. ÌýBut I could imagine exploring the idea at some point.
  5. Deceased members
    1. Anand :Ìý I was trying to clean up the Shannon Award page and realized that Ìýwe have a lot of profiles to create for famous deceased information Ìýtheorists. ÌýIs there a source for "official" obits/bios that we can Ìýput in there, maybe with a photo, so that when someone clicks on Ìýthat name the information comes up? ÌýI think that would be a really Ìýnice thing to do for those people who won our highest award.
    2. Matthieu :Ìý Agree. We should try to get a hand on past newsletters, they usually Ìýhave all this info.
    3. Adriaan :Ìý It would be nice to have some templates for this - I guess we'd needÌýa few (name only, name + photo ... always hard to decide which photo), Ìýformer affiliations, meta-info (e.g., other websites), etc. Ìý
    4. Amin :Ìý I was also adding previous members of itsoc student committee and about sergio servetto I didn't have a clue to what info I should add. AÌýtemplate would help to have similar info. He recently passed away and the info in his website is ok, but finding the right (complete)Ìýinformation about someone who passed away a couple of years ago might beÌýdifficult.
    5. Anand : Making a list of people for whom we need profiles is a start and then we can try and get one at a time. ÌýThe photos would be the hard thing. ÌýThere is always an "official" Â鶹´«Ã½AV bio that we can use.
    6. Amin : Do we need to prevent these profiles from appearing in the first page?
    7. Anand : When we create the profile we can check the box saying it shouldn't appear.
    8. Nick Ìý: All very valuable. ÌýAgreed we should not highlight these folks on the first page. ÌýI think we need to be a bit careful about the tone of the biographies, but we could certainly extract some useful stuff from their obituaries.
  6. Adding past BoGs
    1. Anand :Ìý It's boring, but we could start adding in previous BoGs so that people's profiles are more filled out.
    2. Matthieu :Ìý Are you volunteering ? :)
    3. Adriaan :Ìý I am volunteering - however, I'd be happy to get help :-)
    4. Amin :Ìý I can help :D
    5. Nick Ìý: Wonderful, thank you for taking this initiative.
  7. Highlighted profiles
    1. Anand :Ìý Perhaps only profiles with pictures should be highlighted on theÌýfront page?
    2. Matthieu :Ìý Agree. I have started making profiles private whenever I see one,Ìýand ÌýI edit those that have a fancy formatting.
    3. Adriaan :Ìý Is there an easy way to ask for pictures, e.g., we could have a "dummy"Ìýpicture with the text "picture not yet available/uploaded" and put thatÌýon all profiles (if that can be done). Maybe that is an incentive toÌýreplace the dummy.
    4. Amin :Ìý I agree. Specially that several times I saw there were some names. SinceÌýthe profiles didn't have any info. How should I know someone with justÌýhis name? At least if we don't limit them to profiles with pictures, weÌýshould limit to profiles with information.
    5. Anand : I think Matthieu's solution is ok for a temporary fix -- the problem with adding in a dummy picture is that we'd have to ask SFU to do it (although maybe it's easy) and I am willing to bet that more than half the users are too lazy or don't care to put in a photo even if there is a default. ÌýHowever, making people's profiles private without telling them seems a bit bad. ÌýMaybe we should make a little list/policy thing so that people know that they need a photo to be highlighted on the main page?
    6. Anand : Also, does making a profile private have any other side effects? ÌýAs in, can people not see your profile if it is private? ÌýOr they can only see it if they are logged in?
    7. NIck Ìý: Might be worth asking SFU for some details on the "private" functionality.
  8. History (Amin)
    1. I just noticed that whatever we change a revision is kept. If you look at the history of some news that I made like http://www.itsoc.org/news-events/recent-news/2008-isit-student-paper-award/versions_history_form , you can see that there are 7 revisions, including small changes . This eventually takes a lot of memory space.
      1. Is there anyway that we can delete them?
      2. Can we ask them if something has not published yet, only one revision is kept (the last one)?
    2. (Anand) : I think that it's actually storing diffs, not the whole copy. ÌýWhile it does lead to disk bloat in the short term, disk space is cheap and I don't think we should worry about it.
    3. Nick Ìý: If and when this becomes a problem, we can "pack" the object database to keep revisions from the last X days.