2013 Portal Discussion
Discuss Improvements to the SAS Portal Here
What is being discussed?
The SAS Portal serves as an information resource for small-angle scattering (SAXS and SANS). It is located on the web at http://smallangle.org/
This page has been set-up to provide a forum for discussion of ongoing development and ideas for additions. The homepage for the working group that maintains the portal is: http://www.cansas.org/wgwiki/index.php/Global_SAS_Portal_Working_Group and previous discussion is: http://www.smallangles.net/wgwiki/index.php/2012_Web_Discussion .
Agenda for Discussion
Items Remaining from Previous Discussion Page
ARR: The following points were left at the end of the discussion at the meeting in Uppsala and still need to be resolved:
- Current participants committed to do what needs to be done for having fully functional and exciting site by SAS 2012
- Current participants to act as editorial board for time being.
- MID/LONG Term issues
- Can we get funding from user groups to maintain (domain registration, commercial servers a la rackspace, etc)?
New Topics
- Content
ARR: News items get old quickly. Is there a plan to solicit new items? Will old items be relegated to some archive? Keeping news up to date will help bring people back to the portal.
- Technical Issues
ARR: Some pages are not very conveniently formatted for some devices/browsers e.g. mobile devices with small screens. The software lists that used fixed width are a particular example.
ARR: Is it possible to set-up a semi-automatic system for submitting news items (perhaps just plain text up to some character limit) that could then after moderation automatically be added to a news item list.
ARR: The calendars would probably benefit from a simple means to provide specific information in a convenient format.
