Oct. 6 Launch Meeting Recap

Today's meeting was a good opportunity to get re-focused on OurNewton! Two key areas were discussed:

Design Focused on choosing website themes, based on those available via Drupal and the comments we'd received to date. Andrew Gibson, who has replaced Mike Sances as SCI's lead technical contact for OurNewton, will be: 1) sending to group members some information to elicit feedback on colors for the website; and 2) doing a mock-up of the home page based on the themes the group liked.

Outreach Some progress has been made reaching out to groups--LaTonya in particular reported a good deal of progress in September. The general consensus was that once the site has been established with the look & feel we are working on, it will then be a more opportune time for a big outreach campaign. Our target is to prioritize the site design work to have that wrapped up by the Nov. meeting.

Meanwhile, key outreach tasks for everyone:
-collect names/emails of people who would like to receive regular OurNewton updates (these weekly messages are an excellent way to keep the site in front of people and prompt them to add content). SCI will send a few major mass emails to promote the site, especially when we are ready to launch in November...but people will need to "opt in" to receive the regular OurNewton emails.
-group members should begin adding new content relevant for the fall season (especially with an eye to things happening in Nov. & beyond).

Next meeting Mon., Nov. 3, 1 p.m. @ the JCC Details to follow.
Today's agenda is attached for more information.