[game_preservation] [Fwd: Re: [SIGs-Admin] Website Status]

[Henry Lowood]

FYI - latest update and testing on the new IGDA website.  There has been 
a huge amount of traffic on this, which I have kept from our group 
discussion (you can thank me later).   Suffice it to say, it is a big 
project and has taken longer than expected; however, it looks like the 
new site may be launched before too long.

I think Andrew may be more familiar with the technical issues involved.  
He has been involved in the testing and has been bird-dogging esp. the 
issues that affect our wiki.

Henry

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Subject: 	Re: [SIGs-Admin] Website Status
Date: 	Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:17:21 -0400
From: 	Joshua Caulfield <Joshua at igda.org>
Reply-To: 	Private list for SIG leaders <sigs-admin at igda.org>
To: 	Private list for SIG leaders <sigs-admin at igda.org>
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Good Morning,
 
(I want to keep all of you in the loop as much as possible, so I am sorry if there are a bunch of emails today and tomorrow.  I'll try and keep them focused.)
 
Over the weekend we had the site up and running and pulled it offline as Joseph and myself combed through and found a few things.  The good news is the migration was successful, and the site is stable on the new server.  There are still a number of items we're cleaning up now and as we get notes from folks we'll be taking care of them.
 
Lots of positive initial feedback.  
 
We seem to be having a little trouble with the group security implementation, so that is our top priority at the moment.  Because that is site wide and user specific we may need to pull down the site here and there for updates/testing and the like.  This is a core issue and the top of our priority list.  It also looks like something that got twitched as we were doing other clean up items, since it was working earlier, so I do not anticipate a long delay on this.
 
As an aside: I have rewritten the "SITE OFFLINE" message to be a little more user friendly for when the site is down.
 
Joseph and I have a system in place for tracking trouble tickets, and it seems to be working at the moment.  Again, if anyone has any issues to report, please pop an email to webmaster at igda.org, and it will come to both of us.  You'll get an autoreceipt email, and if we need clarification, you'll get a follow up from us.
 
We've got a couple of items via this method already, mostly cosmetic, but a couple that need to be addressed soon, and we're working on those.
 
Joseph and I are also doing some work on video demos and FAQs and the like, to make it easier for folks to get around.
 
Once the front end is up and prime time, we'll be digging into the new back end system that should allow us a great deal more capacity for the business end of IGDA that you folks don't usually see much of. 
 
Any questions, as always direct to myself or Joe or use the webmaster email.
 
Thanks,
Joshua



-- 
Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
 Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood 
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