[seek-web] [Fwd: Re: SEEK wiki page]

[Matt Jones]

Steve,

Thanks for the history.  I think I agree with Bertram that the intent of 
the Community section is not obvious, so... we'll have to chew on this 
to try to come up with some better labels.  Let me know if you think of 
any.
Thanks.

Matt

Steve Tekell wrote:
> on the remaining open items....
> 
> #2: regarding logging out:
> 
> With (container managed) security like this, closing your browser will force
> your session to end.  Similarly, the session will timeout automatically
> after a period of inactivity.  Although, this period is shorter on the
> production server than what is actually declared in the app configuration.
> I don't yet know why it's timing out early like that and it works fine in my
> dev and test environments.  Anyway, it's possible to implement a
> (programmatic) logout if there's a need for one.
> 
> #9 and #10: regarding the naming Community section formerly know as
> Contributors and the subsection of Intranet/Team Communities and related
> organization:
> 
> We went around and around on this issue before and never found a clear
> winner.  At this point, my question is can people find what they are looking
> for?  If so, then there's no point in making any changes.  If not, what
> would be better and why?
> 
> Regarding the meaning of "Community", 
> well looking to the Simpsons we learn from some TeleCom MegaCorp PR woman 
> "Communications" + "Unity" = "Community"
> 
> Mostly it just seemed like a better alternative to "Contributors" and not
> too long to fit in the Nav panel.  Nothing we came up with at the time
> sounded great.  Which is why the home page has stuff like this:
> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=WelcomeToSEEK#section-WelcomeTo
> SEEK-OnThisSite
> To explain it and all the other sections a bit better with more than one
> word.
> 
> 
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