Jeremy Streich and Homer Hruby Speaking about Google Analytics

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Meeting Minutes - April 14th, 2010

Topics

• Member expectations and goals for the WALRUS group.

  • Code sharing

  • Awareness of projects and emerging technologies that others are involved in and implementing.

  • Demonstrations of interesting projects and technologies. (e.g. Google Analytics, Social Media, GIS Maps, CFWheels)

  • Demonstrations of campus wide initiatives. (e.g. Qualtrics Survey Instrument, Enterprise Single Sign-On, Enterprise Wordpress)

• Meeting format, time, and frequency

  • 50/50 split separating general meeting from presentations.

  • For some presentations, schedule a one-off meeting or series to focus on larger topics/audience-specific topics

  • Group consensus to meet bi-weekly at most or monthly

  • Group consensus on preference to try an meet either at beginning or end of day as to not disturb the work day.

  • Discussed possibility of restricting timeframe of when group meets based on busy times of the year when the majority are unable to participate

• Discussion on previous initiatives.

  • Code Repository: Completed. Will schedule one-off meeting on how to use the repository.

  • CMS & Web Standards: On hold for now.

  • Env-X: On hold

  • WALRUS Site: Group will use blog for now.

• Community Building Ideas. Discussion on:

  • each WALRUS meeting having a general theme

  • pros/cons of general announcements vs. member list

  • creating a PantherLink calendar to collaborate on topics

  • annual summit: conference style presentations. split tracks based on audience: programming, social media, etc.

  • undertaking executive summaries; (e.g., pros/cons of wordpress and other emerging technologies)

• Roundtable Discussion