Team Website

[Jared Norris]

Ok so a quick round up of the progress of the website update. It's now
currently in a workable state with just a few little bugs to iron out.

The main thing we as the team had earmarked as important parts of the
upgrade was the theme update. This is completed and I must say,
looking good.

As one of the website admins one of the things I had really hoped for
as a part of the upgrade as a move to use Launchpad's OpenID
integrated with Ubuntu's Single Sign On service. For those of you not
sure what OpenID is, it's the same system used to log into Launchpad,
the Ubuntu Forums, the Ubuntu Wiki, the loco.ubuntu.com site and
numerous other Ubuntu sites. This means the one login details work for
all sites so no need to have different accounts spread all over the
web. It also alows simple, click through logins via the Ubuntu Single
Sign On service.The main reason for this is I personal dislike having
to remember logins for all the different sites I visit but also, the
user list on the ubuntu.org.au website was become more of a spam list
than a user list. The Canonical staff have been generous with their
time and they've been able to get this working as well. There only one
small problem, if the email used as a part of the OpenID system
already exists in the user database (because it's been used to create
an account) it causes a collision and error.

The proposal to fix the OpenID login issue will require existing users
to log in and add the launchpad openid to their account, instructions
will be given on exact steps if it goes ahead this way. I am proposing
we accept OpenID as the only login method for the site (after a grace
period for existing users to add openids to their accoutns) to vastly
simplify user management on the website. I'm also proposing we delete
all user accounts that don't have open id logins associated with them
after a month or so of migration time. There are literally thousands
of spam accounts on the database currently that need a clean up and
this seems like as good a time as any to get out the broom.

So now the requirements are fulfilled is there anything else we need
to think about requesting to make the website work how we need it.
Obviously we'll need the planet back, but now we also have forums,
social media accounts, loco.u.c site for events and meetings and the
wiki site for collaboration I can't think of anything else we need to
make the website do what we need.

As far as wishlist items go so far we have:
 * Calendar with ical import from loco.u.c site (not needed but would
still be useful)
 * WYSIWYG editors to make it easier for users to contribute content
for the website.

So there are two questions really, does anyone have any substantial
objections to cleaning up the user list and only using open id to log
into the website? And secondly, is there anything I'm missing that
would be useful to set up now?

We have 2 weeks of it running in a testing environment to make sure
it's working as expected (unfortunately in the testing environment
it's only accessible to current website admins or I'd post a link for
you all) before it moves into production. This should be plenty of
time for people to have a think and bring up any concerns.

It's taken a while but it's coming together nicely.

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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris