2023-03-01 Meeting notes

 Date

Mar 1, 2023

 Participants

• @Dina Meek @Greg Dean @John-Paul Navarro @Tolbert, Nathan L @Andrew Pasquale Qltd (Christine, Emily, Matt)

• Style Guide - from the agency

  • The next iteration is available here –

    • https://client.qltd.com/access/index.html

    • Measurements

      • Team will review and bring feedback to the 3/1 meeting

      • Allocations is still working through it

      • Operations is implementing

        • JP - has struggled with a single place to go that references all the decisions we’ve made

          • Dina and Ron to meet to determine best way to organize decisions/actions for group to follow

        • Dinuka - is the style guide ready enough for their designer

      • Support is still working through it

        • They would like XD files

        • has some additional questions, once he gets those

      • At some point we declare we’re done; what date do we want to release

        • Dina mentioned we do have a target date - March 17 - for the RP page and we should all shoot for that as our “end date”

        • Andrew suggested XD as a way to gather feedback

    • Final feedback to Q on Style Guide 3/8

      • ncsa-access-UI-6

      • Christine will share links to Style Guide and the UI

        • Hopefully on the group Google Drive

• Analytics 

  • Once the new dashboard is set up we will make sure that all the folks have access:

    Allocations: Rob Light/Nathan Silver

    Support: Andrew Pasquale

    Operations: JP

    Metrics/xmod: Ryan Rathsam

    access-ci.org: Dina and Ron (and at the moment Q LTD team)

• Universal footer navigation

  • Privacy Policy

  • Conduct (J. Towns working on)

  • Acceptable Use (created by the IAM group)

  • Dina to bring Support's Privacy, Code of Conduct to ACO to determine if we can use this, make adjustments etc.

    • Then bring back to the group to make sure we all have the same verbiage/links in our footers

• Resource Provider Page - JP, Julie, Greg, Nathan, ACO - Ron/Q

  • There will be a subgroup to put together a decision tree to help new researchers decide which resources they need

    • Support

    • Allocations

    • Operations

  • Ruth and Tom Maiden - sources of truth for RP logos/page

  • Dina to get RP copy into the drive and share link with the team asap

    • Team to review RP copy by 3/8

  • Q did a very high-level layout based on JP’s team’s outline

  • We need to run by a small focus group of RPs before we do much more

    • We need to determine what makes the most sense to show on the page - the Resource Provider names or the actual resources (Bridges) page

    • We may need to link off to a subdomain that has a list (dynamic pulling from dbase) of all the resources

  • Draft copy

    • Group discussed purpose of page

      • we all agree that this is to make the RPs more visible

      • The questions at the bottom are how people take action

        • The various service areas need to help us determine what the questions are and what the links are

      • The Resource Types will be done away with and that info will be brought up into both the intro (explaining the different types of resource) and then fleshing that out a bit under the blurb that will come under whatever the “levels” titles becomes

        • Ron has info on how “Levels” are now described within ACCESS

    • Vet through RP forum

      • NEXT STEPS: ACO will share updated draft copy based on above with this group for feedback before giving to Q to re-lay out

      • Once team is satisfied with copy and layout, Dina and Ron will bring to the RP Forum small focus group

For future:

• User Interface

  • Refinements focusing especially on:

  • Universal navigation dropdown (Login or My ACCESS TBD for future)

    • Do we want dropdowns

      • open on hover? open on click?

      • what do underlines mean? Active?

    • Q says its most simple to use “Login” on all the sites in the Univ nav bar

    • All sites aren’t handling login the same;

    • where we need all sites to go is to CiLogon

    • We will defer this piece - for the ACO site - until we’ve got style guide finished

  • Subdomain navigation and drop downs

    • Subdomain footer refinements

  • Breadcrumbs

    • “Home” means different things

    • So replace that in breadcrumbs with subdomain name

    • “Home/Tools” would change, for ex, to “Support/Tools”

  • Would like to add a style - like the inpage navigation (see “Tools” in Q’s layout) - for inpage content boxes

• And…

  • Adding blurb to Contact page with link to ticketing system for allocated users

    • Dina shared text with Q 2/8

  • Universal navigation, dropdown menu for “About”, includes file distribution to all
    subdomains via GitHub

    • Determine if there should be dropdowns

      • Collaboration page

      • How to get Involved page

      • News

        • Add Events and Outages linking to specific sections of Support’s site

 Action items

• @Dina Meek and @Ron Payne to meet to determine best way to organize decisions/actions for group to follow

• Q would share XD files with the team

• Dina to share RP page copy with team by 3/8

• Julie to form subgroup to create decision tree for new users to determine where they need to go from RP page: Allocations, Support, Operations (Metrics?)

 Decisions

Style Guide - Team decided we would all now work to implement the styles and then determine if anything more was needed.

RP Page - Team decided purpose of the page is to make the RPs more visible; links will give people a path for further action.