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