The Web Advisory committee (WAC) met again on Wednesday, December 10th. The bulk of this meeting was taken up with a discussion of the current IT Task Force. Associate Provost, Information Systems and Technology Alan George and (regular WAC member) Associate Vice-President, Academic Geoff MacBoyle from the task force joined the meeting.

Many issues were raised from the group, ranging from the quality of wireless (good) and web-based email services (not-so-good) to inconsistencies in website design and development across campus. Poor communication was identified as a barrier to better consistency and efficiency.

Following this discussion there was as short update from the WCMS project leads. The Needs Assessment team has completed 4 focus groups and surveys of 5 audience groups. The next step is to being to analyse this data and move towards a WCMS needs specification.

The tech team saw a webinar on Drupal and a live presentation from RedDot on Friday, December 5th. They will see an online presentation from Hannon Hill (Cascade Server) on the 12th.

If you have any comments or concerns about web practices at UW, and especially the current WCMS project, please do let us know (comment here, or you can use the contact form). Questions about the WCMS project can also be sent to wcms@uwaterloo.ca. The WCMS project team will be reporting to UCST on Friday, December 19th with preliminary recommendations.

Minutes for the December meeting are available on the WAC website.