information architecture

Recently I took on the task of reorganizing and streamlining this group site, with the goal of making it much easier for new and existing volunteers to continue with the drupal.org redesign implementation. There is information on the group site that isn't up-to-date or 100% clear yet, but I think we are fairly close with reorganizing these g.d.o pages. Here are my main changes, and I'd love your feedback.

What information would you need in order to help with the redesign implementation? Please add your comments below.

Changes to the Overview page

Overview
The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding is a small non-profit organization seeking to enhance its online presence.

At present, we are seeking a web design and development consultant/firm to create a new website that aligns with current organizational branding guidelines, allows simple updating through an easy to use CMS/WYSIWYG, has some built in social media/networking functions (e.g., a blog and forums), includes several password-protected sections and will scale with the organization through the next 3-5 years.

We are a leading B2B publisher urgently looking for an experienced developer to help an existing technical team migrate mature sites to Drupal. The project will involve both architecting a completely new system and ensuring successful migration of existing material from our legacy systems. A working knowledge of Microsoft .NET technologies will greatly help but is not essential.

I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a while and I'm running into a roadblock in terms of providing good usability to community members vs. correct information architecture. As an example, let's say I'm running a website about plants, and visitors can add articles about different plants. This is just a crude example to help understand the problem. When a visitor goes to create a new article, they can categorize it as follows:

Plant Part
- Color
-- Produce

A well established development company in Hyderabad is looking to build a Drupal team for a long term multi year Drupal initiative. Looking to hire expertise at all levels
- Drupal Architect
- Themes Developer
- Drupal developers.

Can hire the right candidate immediately. Pl send resume with portfolio to hyddrupaljobs@gmail.com

A well established development company in Hyderabad is looking to build a Drupal team for a long term multi year Drupal initiative. Looking to hire expertise at all levels
- Drupal Architect
- Themes Developer
- Drupal developers.

Can hire the right candidate immediately. Pl send resume with portfolio to hyddrupaljobs@gmail.com

It seems the variety of options to create some sort of distro or feature set or pattern or template or whatever are broad, but one thing that is united under all of them is the need to collect a list of what sort of features should be included in this. So what features do you think every or most church websites should have. Let's stay away from modules, how it would be accomplished.

This is a question about defining the problem. We can figure out how to solve it later.

I am not a developer but a very hands-on subject matter expert.

Having been badly burnt by poor performance in the past, I am trying to pre-empt performance issues. Please suggest what is the ideal way to build the site: through taxonomy, content types (CCK) or what?

Expected load:
50-500 users logged in. Approximately 10 times as many anonymous. This may increase further.

Taxonomy:
1500 terms with ten or so cross references:

For example:
Vocabulary 1: all animals
Vocabulary 2: all countries

Hi, I'm currently in the planning stage of creating an online presence of a student guide to the university and the city of Ghent. There's one question that keeps popping up: how can you create a guide that is as accurate as possible, and how can you spot most easily what needs an update, a fact check or a rewrite?

I'm exploring a few routes, and I'd like some input and/or hear about your experiences. (This isn't strictly newspaper-related content, but since local newspapers often also try their best to be a guide to the city they cover, I thought I'd post it over here anyway.) Here goes:

EDIT: There will be a BOF discussion tomorrow, Wed morning at 9:00am here at Drupalcon. Please join the discussion and share your thoughts.