| Name: BCMC Website Committee |
| Starts: Tue Jan 28, 2025 19:00 |
| Return: Tue Jan 28, 2025 22:00 |
| Registration opens: Thu Jan 16, 2025 |
| Event category: Volunteer Meeting |
| Difficulty grade: A1 [?] |
| For members only: Yes |
| Screening used: Yes |
| Max participants: - |
Organizer: Chris Ludwig  |
| Profile info: |
What interested you to participate on the Website Committee?
What Web and IT skills can you share with the Committee?
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First Meeting of the BCMC's new Website and IT Committee
All interested BCMC members are encouraged to attend, not just programmers and webmasters.
This committee and meeting is open to any member who is interested in participating and learning about the future development and modernization of the BCMC's websites.
Volunteers will be needed not just for programming and website development, but also for graphic design, testing, content, functionality/features, creation of documentation, UI, and assigned tasks working with 3rd party developers.
Purpose:
1. To review the BCMC's current Web and IT systems
2. Decide on a future for those systems and develop a plan and path forward.
3. Implement the committee's plan and vision
Current Websites
1. BCMC Website (Custom)
- a) keep and maintain the current website, or
- b) build new custom website, or
- c) build new website using open source CMS (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.) with 3rd party developer components,
- d) hire 3rd party to build new site
- e) other options?
2. BC Mountain Foundation (Joomla 3.x) - Needs to be migrated to (Joomla 5.x)
3. Backcountry BC (Joomla 3.x) - Needs to be migrated to (Joomla 5.x) and content updates
4. BCMC Cabin and Campsite Reservation website (Joomla 3.x) - Migration to (Joomla 5.x) and will need a replacement booking system to replace defunct Jomres at some point in the future
5. BCMC Equipment Rental Website (Joomla 4x) - Up to date
IT
1. Review BCMC Email Accounts and system
2. BCMC Server
3. Security
4. Document Storage
I look forward to working and meeting with all of you.
Chris Ludwig - BCMC Webmaster
