ITTS Update

Today we're officially releasing the RFP to migrate our current Online Communities service to Drupal. You can grab a PDF of it here. Proposals are due by February 18 because we have a short turn-around time on this project and we need to get moving on it.

There's information in the RFP for contacting us if you have further questions. ALA staff and members who would like to help us publicize this RFP should feel free to link to this post.

More background on the project:

• See section 4.8 of our WAC Midwinter Report.
• A revamped Online Communities is one of the building blocks for a new version of "MyALA." Read more about it here.

Matt has counted up some statistics for some of the services ITTS provides, and there's more of pretty much everything than we would have thought. Since all new blogs and wikis get parked on Dreamhost, those sites have come online just within the last five months.

Not all of these installations are fully live yet (some have just been requested and are being configured by the owning unit), but it gives some sense of the direction in which ALA is moving. This also doesn't count blogs and wikis hosted offsite, since we have no way of tracking those.

Staff, please don't forget to link your sites from the Read Write Connect wiki so that members can find them. If you need help figuring out how to do this, please us know.

Wikis
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On wikis.ala.org: 74
On Dreamhost: 27
Total wikis: 101

Blogs
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On blogs.ala.org: 39
On Dreamhost: 19
Total blogs: 58

Lists on Sympa: 926

Courses on Moodle: 30

Online Communities by category
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ALA General: 57
Divisions: 197
Round Tables: 20

Total Communities: 274

An Online Communities Enhancements wiki has been established to seek ideas for improving the application. It is located at http://wikis.ala.org/ocenhancements/index.php/
Please add your comments!

The online communities application has been stable since last month's attacks. We are looking at enhancements to the communities applications which will be implemented as resources permit.