Scope:
1. Web Community Redesign
Estimated resources needed: 20-30 hours development time
The redesign will concentrate on enhancing and highlighting the forums to encourage user participation and peer-to-peer support. In additon, out-dated articles and all other features would be removed. Fostering peer support in the forums will help decrease requests for staff support.
2. Training Videos
Estimated resources needed: 40 hours
Creating brief training videos on a variety of web development tasks will supply site administrators and developers with instant access to web-based training and information. In addition, many free video tutorials are available on the web and can be gathered and organized in a central location. With such a collection of videos, staff will receive fewer support requests, and the requests they do get will be easier to answer when they can direct customers to a training video.
3. Peer-led training courses
Estimated resources needed: 80 hours
Developing a set of courses for those topics that demand classroom-like instruction, as well as a plan to deliver them to larger audiences, will more effectively train larger groups of participants on a scheduled basis. When participants become better trained, they require less support from UTO and are able to support other new developers, in turn.
4. 3-day training workshop with Lullabot
Estimated resources needed: $18,000 (recoverable)
Lullabot has proposed $18,000 for a 3-day Drupal workshop for up to 25 people. This cost would be covered by a participant fee. We are in the process of gauging the development community's interest, and will renegotiate the fee and number of attendees with Lullabot when we have a firmer estimate of the partcipants we can expect.
5. Patterns Library
Estimated resources needed: 80 hours
Web development patterns libraries, such as the Yahoo User Interface Library, are immensely important for encouraging consistent design and coding. Creating an ASU pattern library will help to set a standard, as well as provide easy-to-use, tested "plug-n-play" elements and features for developers and designers.
