<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hope everyone is doing well. It's been awhile since we last met, so I asked Debbie if we could send out a status of the items on our plate. Here's a couple of highlighted tasks/notes that have due dates coming up:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- IVOA newsletter (DB): Sent to Exec and Media Group. Goal: publish the week of **Dec. 18** -- (almost finished)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- VO handouts for conferences: an email was sent around yesterday asking for ideas. A conversations' been started (thanks for the inputs so far). I talked with Pepi, and she says a good day to get a draft in would be for the next Exec meeting, **Dec. 19**. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> ** For those of us at AAS, we could hand some out at the undergraduate reception, plus give some to IVOA-partners to put at their booths **if they want them**; Bruce mentioned some organizations have due dates for booth material, plus we need to make sure the content is OK with the parties involved.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- Website: I started to play around with the wordpress site again earlier this week, and realized the free wordpress blog doesn't let you add plugins or custom themes/CSS. I brought this up to Pepi this morning. We were thinking if it's worth it to pay for a test wordpress site so we can develop it together, or try to host the test site at CXC. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> ** What do people think? Does anyone have suggestions / concerns? Note that we can still work on site content and organization with the current wordpress site.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Related, I came up with a draft front page and put it on Trello: </span><a href="https://trello.com/c/QI9wg93q/2-front-page-design" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://trello.com/c/QI9wg93q/<wbr>2-front-page-design</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. Comments/revisions are most welcome :) If people have more ideas for the front page, please add it to the ticket (or send it to </span><a href="mailto:media@ivoa.net" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">media@ivoa.net</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">, or on Slack).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- How are the social media accounts going? ;) I saw one person tagged the IVOA facebook page at the UN conference in Vienna (woot!). We should come up with some scheduled posts plus some notes on what not to post to the IVOA accounts. I plan to post stuff during AAS, so maybe that's a good first go at the media platforms, unless anyone has an objection.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- VO Portal: Bruno Merin is visiting CfA on Friday (Dec 15), and Pepi, Janet, Raffaele, and myself are meeting with Bruno to brainstorm options for the Portal.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> ** If anyone has suggestions / concerns about the VO Portal that you'd like us to bring up with Bruno, let me or any of the attendees know.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Of course, we recognize that it's the holidays and we're busy getting our projects in a good state before vacation/conferences/etc.. But if anyone has a little time to put in -- especially for the VO handouts -- it'd be great to get a head start. I'll send a reminder of the task list after the holidays when we've got more time to plan.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, and happy holidays!</div><div>Jamie and Debbie</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Jamie A. Budynkiewicz<br></div>Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory<br></div><div>Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics<br></div>100 Acorn Park Dr. R-377 MS-81<br></div>Cambridge, MA 02140<br></div></div>
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