Building the site

Based on the meeting today (George Pór, Mark Tovey), two interesting batch html conversion utils came up in search... to be investigated:

http://www.bluem.net/downloads/rtf2txt_en/

The disadvantage of these is that we would lose formatting. Another option is:

mac.softpedia.com/get/Word-Processing/RTF2HTML.shtml

I (Mark Tovey) will investigate these two, especially the second, and report back.

One additional note: if we could find a doc2rtf, which could then be used as

This topic is to discuss the idea of putting together a CIC newsletter which grew out of an idea seeded earlier this morning about how to handle inquiries from people who are not invited participants but somehow they arrive at the CIC website and may be curious and interested and want to even jump in. one idea emerged about (1) harvesting their emails for when we go more public and can invite in others, and/or (2) offering some kind of newsletter. the latter was about stimulating the push rather than pull style of sharing information with the world.

We need a field for annotation where people who upload a reference can, and are encouraged to, explain why they recommend it. That would complement, not replace the tags, and add more value to the bibliography. Think of being on the receiving end of the library collection, as user: which listing is more useful to you the one without or with annotation?

Tom wrote:

"Library" takes you to an evolving bibliography of books, articles, and other material that participants feel relate to CI.

How to make site more usable and look and feel more inviting and engaging even if the latter is already a significant improvement over the previous version of Drupal?