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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]

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   * 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.
      * 08/11: AM thinks twiki written in PERL; doesn't know. KM advises AM speak to mike sanderson, our IT guy who knows twiki, and get a better assessment of difficulty. KM will do introduction.

---+++ [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?)


---+++ [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.]

---+++ [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)

---+++ [DONE] *faculty / Research page*:
      * KM 8/18/09: missing heidrich, van de panne in graphics page
      * 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
      * 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
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      * 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.
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