Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Meeting Wed Dec 1

Latest on Website: Geoff, Rajesh, Shova

1. Main NCBS portal page: Week-by-week changes have been OK'd


2. Main News Page: Framework near-complete
  • http://news.ncbs.res.in/
  • Many additional features made possible by ProsePoint architecture (comments, linking to Digg, etc)
  • "Front Page" works mostly as an automatic aggregator of most recent sub-section stories
  • Slight tweaks needed to page style (Rajesh, Shova)
  • Errors occurring if not logged in (will add in all team members as users)
3. Single story page: Done

4. Sub-section pages: Framework complete, just need to add in stories

5. Site will go online Jan 2
  • Publish new weekly edition each Saturday pm
  • News team meet each Wed pm
  • Prepare top section of new edition Thursday
Stories in progress:

Breaking Barriers Preview: Nisha: Draft in, Graphic in progress (Jan 2)
Bioinformatic Conf Preview: Geoff: Text complete, Graphic Complete (Jan 9)
Narlikar thinks out of the Box;Vinodh, Manish: Draft in, Graphic in progress (Jan 16)
Preview of Molecular Motors Conf: Prabhat, Sucheta: Draft in,
Graphic in progress (Jan 23)

Update on Wildlife Program: Geoff: Draft in, Graphic in progress (Jan 30)
Preserving Kerala's Ayurvedic Heritage: Geoff: Draft in, Graphics to be supplied
SeasonWatch story: Uttara: Draft Needed, Graphic Needed
Art Science Fusion: Sarita: Draft Needed, Graphic Needed
Kaustubh's War on Pollution: Shikha:
Draft Needed, Graphic Needed
India Tackles the Brain Drain: Geoff: Draft Needed, Graphic Needed

Staffing
  • Mohit Jolly from IIT Kanpur has indicated he will come to NCBS on a regular basis. First visit will be in Feb 2010.
  • Advertisements for jornalist/s and multimedia recruits need to be placed
Other

Stories need to keep coming in
  • Some to be published as Portal Page stories, after Jan 30
  • Others to be Front Page stories, during and after January
  • Need someone who can provide editorial advice
Need some more blogs or just one-off rants, for Opinion section

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