Meeting notes for Monday 2008-07-21

Present: Tommy Yu, Poul Nielsen, Dougal Cowan, Catherine Lloyd, Gareth de Walters, James Lawson

The members of this group (except Poul, so far,) have conducted a 'card sort' of the major and minor categories currently present in the cellml.org content
The aim was to organise the content into categories, and create subcategories where appropriate
The group did not really create many subcategories, so following this discussion we will perform the card sort again, taking into account what is discusssed, and try to create more subcategories
We should also consider possible future categories
Archiving of outdated documents is important

Gareth has set up a Google Analytics page for cellml.org, which has now been collecting information for 10 days or so. This information was not statistically viable yet but was nevertheless worth looking at.
The group had a look at the 'content drilldown' to establish an idea about what pages users were visiting and how they were getting there
The main thing we noticed was that people are visiting the examples an awful lot. These examples are in fact pages from the old website, which use the old templates, and are in sore need of updating. If this is the manner in which many people are attempting to familiarise themselves with CellML, examples can perhaps be identified as a major content category, and that we should be making it easy for new visitors to the site to access the examples
The tools page is not getting as many views as we expected it might. Given that we consider it to be a major content category, perhaps it is too buried. Alternatively, people may be simply leaving the site before they decide that they want to download tools for working with CellML
It is probably worth taking another look at the site analytics at the next meeting, since it will have been collecting information for about a month by then

Use cases:

Roles:

A well advertised, easily accessible 'elevator pitch' on 'getting started with CellML' could be very useful to induce casual users to find out more about CellML
See PHP Zen site for example
Some kind of 'getting involved' page might also be useful

Help needs to be more engaging and interactive than at present
The tracker is not really viable for providing causal / new users with guidance, as it is complicated and aimed at the project team and developers
SBML have linked their SBML-discuss mailing list to the forums on their website, we could adopt a similar stance