[ESG-CET] Web site (re)organization

[bernholdtde at ornl.gov]

A reminder to all...

So far only one person has responded regarding external ESG content,
but I know there's lots more.

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:29 -0500  "bernholdtde at ornl.gov" wrote:
> [[[See the bottom of the message for action items and deadlines.]]]
> 
> Dean asked me to spend some time cleaning up and organizing the ESG
> web site at (http://esg-pcmdi.llnl.gov/) with the goal of making it
> useful both within the project and in communicating with our sponsors
> and the larger community.  One of the concerns that prompted this has
> been the proliferation of ESG-related web content elsewhere,
> especially in the last year or so.  Another has been the fact that the
> "project" part of www.earthsystemgrid.org is extremely outdated and we
> really don't have a suitable replacement to link to.
> 
> My initial focus is going to be to try to complete the public-facing
> portion of the site, as we'd started to do prior to our mid-term
> review.
> 
> However in an organizational sense, the internal/technical stuff is
> where the most work is needed.  So to begin that work, I would like to
> 
> 1) "Archive" all of the old, outdated, inactive, and probably no
>    longer relevant content to clear a path for new content and
>    organization.  More specifically, I propose to make an "old" folder
>    at the top level of esg-pcmdi.llnl.gov and push pretty much
>    everything in the "internal" folder and a bunch of things in the
>    top level of the site into it.  Things can, of course, be
>    "reinstated" at any time, but I'm going in with the assumption that
>    everything is guilty of being outdated until proven otherwise.
> 
> 2) Collect links to all other sites outside of esg-pcmdi.llnl.gov which
>    contain current ESG content (I know there are wiki pages at NCAR,
>    Chicago, Berkeley, and perhaps elsewhere).
> 
> ACTION ITEM: If there is anything on the esg-pcmdi site that you
> believe to be current and useful which should not be relegated to the
> "old" folder, please send me the URL(s).
> 
> ACTION ITEM: If you have external ESG content, please send me URL(s)
> along with a title and a couple sentences of description. The idea is
> that esg-pcmdi will (initially) link to this external content,
> hopefully with enough context that (a) I can put it in the right
> place(s) in the new web site, and (b) readers can decide whether they
> need to follow the link.
> 
> DEADLINE: Friday 4 December 2009
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