Portal Events Task Force

Commission and Goals
The Events task force should build recommendations for process, policy and guidelines related to publishing events within the portal. For the prototype, the task force should also define specific event generation test groups, assuming that it will not be feasible to funnel all university events through the prototype.

The event process design should take the following into consideration:

• event information must be available through the portal and through the colorado.edu web site.
• events should be able to be categorized so that each portal user can select which category of events to display within his/her event channel.
• the publication of events should be able to be handled through a central review point – and – through specified delegated departments;
• the events publication/submission process must be able to fold into the technical framework recommended by the technical development team, considering both the portal framework and the campus calendaring framework.
• the events publication/submission process must accommodate the myriad of event publishing formats currently in use around campus (either by easing the conversion to a new portal/campus event submission process or by accepting data from department-specific event submission processes.

Timeframe

• Tool recommendation agreed upon between Event Task Force and Technical Developmenet team by February 21, 2003.
• Recommendations prepared for Core Team preliminary review at February 24, 2003 meeting.
• Final draft Recommendations prepared for Steering Team review at March 11, 2003 meeting.

Events Task Force
Malinda Miller-Huey
Chris Hemphill
Pat Jensen
Justin Meyers
Bryan Moll
Paula Vaughan