[ewg] Web site update

Thu Feb 16 08:21:48 PST 2012

Regarding policies about signing up to get access to content that cost the
organization to create, you need to address this with the board. 

Regarding content from Sonoma 2010, all the presentations are up there as
videos under the Videos section. They have been available for quite a while.
However, due to usability concerns, I'm reorganizing them now into the days
they were presented, so they will be available sporadically for the next few
hours. I will also be adding a file that zips all the movies together. I am
slowly getting the content up there as PPTs and PDFs. I apologize they
aren't there, but the videos are good, from the few I've sampled, and they
provide the audio and video.

I would very much like to know what part of the design you find unusable.
This type of feedback is very valuable, because it might just take some
simple reorganization to make it more usable. I am always available and
interested in such suggestions and can be reached at
webmanager at openfabrics.org. However, the design goals for the site when we
moved to the new content management system was to make it easier to manage
and add content by other than web programmers, while controlling access to
some content that is for certain working groups, etc. This reduces the
overall cost of operating the site. 

If you can't find archived content you want, you can always download it
directly at www.openfabrics.org/archives. But I'm sure that it would be
appreciated if this address was kept within the membership. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Or Gerlitz [mailto:ogerlitz at mellanox.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:08 AM
To: Ken Strandberg; jim.ryan at intel.com; Brian Sparks
Cc: 'Cheri Winterberg'; 'Bill Boas'; 'ewg'; Tziporet Koren; Woodruff, Robert
J; David Barzilai
Subject: Re: [ewg] Web site update

On 3/28/2011 11:29 PM, Ken Strandberg wrote:
> Or, Nothing is lost. I can bring this content over. It will take me
several days; it's hours of work to bring it under the new site.  As to
policies, you might want to also bring Scot Schultz and Jim Ryan into the
conversation.

So few days have passed.. and it seems that all documents from past Sonoma
OFA conferences are very much lost e.g here
https://openfabrics.org/ofa-documents/presentations/cat_view/57-ofa-document
s/23-presentations/40-workshops.html
you can see no sign for pre-2010 Sonoma. For OFA 2011 there are docs but I
can't think on less friendly manner to build the page and for 2010 the docs
are empty. What was wrong in the older web site that the OFA member
companies had to pay money and make this site such non usable? why the site
isn't open for everyone? and even after registration / login you can't find
there any docs? how can new comers to the rdma industry catch up without all
the good old materials / presentations from
2005/6/7/8/9/10 . I have bunch of people asking me questions in various
rdma/IB related issues and I can't point them anywhere.

Or.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Or Gerlitz [mailto:ogerlitz at mellanox.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 1:14 PM
> To: Ken Strandberg
> Cc: Bill Boas; ewg
> Subject: RE: [ewg] Web site update
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> 1st, and most - there were tons (and I mean that) of precious 
> materials on the older site from the 2008 and 2009 OFA Sonoma 
> conferences, we must find them and make them available onsite, were they
all lost?
>
> 2nd, as for this directive of being unable to read materials unless 
> you're a member, I'm copying Bill Boas, maybe he can explain the 
> rational - Bill, if the subscription idea is to get people who are 
> interested to receive the newsletter to sign for it through their 
> subscription, why make visibility for the rest of the content be dependent
on that subscription as well?
>
> Or.
> ________________________________________
> From: Ken Strandberg [ken at kenstrandberg.com]
> Sent: 28 March 2011 19:30
> To: Or Gerlitz
> Subject: RE: [ewg] Web site update
>
> Hi Or,
>
> The only past content we have is from SC10 and the 2010 Sonoma conference.
> There are links to this content from the page you reference, though 
> with our current style sheet the links are NOT very clear. We are 
> working on changing the style sheet to make these look more obvious. 
> If you use this page, look for where it says to download ...'here.' 
> And click on here. If you've done that, you should be taken to a page with
the names of downloadable files.
> Then you just click on the Download button for the file you want. 
> Another way to get these files is under the OFED/OFA Resources menu>  
> OFA Doc
> Downloads>  Videos or Presentations.
>
> If you aren't seeing the pages with Download buttons, please let me know.
> You have access rights to all this content. And please let me know 
> what browser  you're using if you can't get to these pages. I need to 
> make sure they are available to the appropriate users.
>
> Regarding access rights, I'm just implementing what I've been directed 
> by the organization's management. You should contact one of the Exec 
> team if you have concerns regarding our policies.
>
> But, ANYTHING regarding the web site should be directed to me.
>
> Please let me know whether or not this helps. Either way.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken Strandberg
> webmanager at openfabrics.org
> ken at catlowcommunications.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Or Gerlitz [mailto:ogerlitz at mellanox.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 9:32 AM
> To: Ken Strandberg
> Cc: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; xwg at openfabrics.org; 
> mwg at openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [ewg] Web site update
>
> On 3/28/2011 6:27 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> I was trying to provide pointer for partners on past conferences 
>> presentations and can't do that the page says "To download content 
>> from this event, you must login first",  why we require that if the 
>> purpose of registration is "requested so that your name is included 
>> in Newsletter" ?!
> Also after doing registration/login I can't get any content from 
> previous conferences @ 
> http://www.openfabrics.org/jofa/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti
> cle&id
> =30&Itemid=16
> any idea if this is broken or I'm doing something which is wrong?
>
> Or.
>
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