The embedded features of the new website will help us structure our own processes.
Approaching this as a series of DRS Office Portfolios should also help visualise and organise it better.
Basic principles
That we utilise the automated tools available wherever possible.
That each tools is associated with a DRS officer and thereby the activity/processes around that office
That each office's processes should be as accessible as possible - i.e. that contributions are not teh isolated responsibility of any one officer at any time (distributed, international, sustainable, representative, etc.)
Automated tools
| News |
Articles, Blog Any member can be given permission to add an article as a News item. Any member can be given permission to use the blog. Need to disambiguate use of both - try different things. Need to consider membership permission/access (what content do members get?) |
Custom webpage Currently we have no need for this (as yet) but consider for larger items, such as DRS 2016? |
| Events |
Events app The events app seems to be pretty good for what we need and it supports external and free events too. Well worth trying to make good use of it and encourage wider use by members. Any member can be given permission to add an event and we might want to look at how this is done. |
Links to ConfTool, EventBrite, etc.? |
| Membership |
Membership, Directory, Team members These apps seem to work well just now and we should test these to see what use is made by members. |
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| SIGs |
Group We will trial the Group app to see whether SIGs can/will make use of it. Consider what a Group might be? e.g. Council; International zones; |
Chapter Alternative to Groups is to use the full functionality of Chapters. |
| Archival |
Documents Currently this is the least useful app for our specific requirements. We could do with an officer to handle archival and our document repository generally. |
OJS or other online repository ?
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| Jobs, funding, scholarships, bursary etc. |
Job board Again, this seems to dbe ok for what we might need - would be good if someone could test this in the coming months |
Static content otherwise; jobs.ac.uk; PhDbyDesign; etc. |
Office Roles
Membership
The membership officer should not have to be managing the admin of membership but focusing on what membership of hte DRS is all about; what members want and how we might frame membership as we move into the next 50 years.
