Working Group Meeting 17 July 2013

Google+ Hangout
17 July 2013

Attending

• Andrea Buran
• Jonathan Mifsud
• Stephen Bau

Notes

1. Introductions
2. Purpose of the Meeting
   • Gauge interest in the project
   • Discuss goals
   • Assess the current state of development
   • Discuss a plan and process to move forward
   • Divide responsibilities based on skills and interest
   • Determine next steps
   • Set up a time to follow up on progress
3. Goals
   • Build on what we have: a final release of Symphony 2.3.3
   • Rebuild the community site with Symphony Factory
   • Create the documentation site
   • Members authorization subdomain
4. Current State
   • Symphony Factory in three forms:
     • Symphony CMS
     • XSLT static site generator (xsltproc)
     • Wadoo static site generator
     • Documentation for how the Symphony CMS repository has been built, structured and maintained for a collaborative workflow: workspace README
     • A quick overview of the state of development on the forum: Rebuilding the Symphony Site with Factory
   • Symphony Documentation
     • Subdomain set up for docs.getsymphony.com
     • The existing site documentation has been exported to XML
     • Jonas Downey’s Symphony Documentation Repository
     • Jonas Downey on Building a Site with Symphony CMS
       • Part 1
       • Part 2
     • DesignProjectX Tutorials
     • Craig Zheng’s Symphony Book as Text
     • Craig Zheng’s Symphony Book as Markdown as listed here
     • Vimeo Video by Bernardo Dias da Cruz: Symphony CMS Development Polo Atacado website
     • Symphony CMS Workspace
5. Plan and Process
   • GitHub issues for community site
   • Options for documentation
     • GitHub pull request on site managed by a static site generator (Wadoo, xsltproc, other)
     • A Symphony site with a front end form for documentation submissions
     • A wiki or other system to manage user-submitted content
6. Responsibilities
   • Allen:
   • John:
   • Brendan:
   • Stephen: Design, XSLT
   • Jonathan: Development
   • Andrea: Design, XSLT
7. Next Steps (from GitHub issues)
   • Members authentication site and API
   • Create Discussions sections and fields
   • Layout Stream page
   • Layout Blog index page
   • Layout Blog entry page
   • Layout Showcase index page
   • Layout Showcase entry page
   • Layout Events index page
   • Layout About page
   • Create Documentation site
   • Create XSLT templates for Discussions
   • Create an Event to manage states on entries
8. Schedule Follow-up Meeting
   • Google+ Hangout
   • Friday, July 26, 11pm PDT (Vancouver, Canada)
   • Saturday, July 27, 7am BET (London, England)
   • Saturday, July 27, 8am CET (Italy, Malta)
   • Saturday, July 27, 4pm EST (Brisbane, Australia)