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Web Council Meetings

September 2022 meeting agenda

Meeting date: Sept. 1, 9 a.m.

  • :ÌýThom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we gear up for the start of the academic year.
  • Back-to-School Communications: We will get an overview of messaging and toolkits from:
    • Courtney Coster, director of brand marketing strategy
    • Jacob Kelly, social media digital strategist & community manager
    • Genevieve Haas, director of executive communications
  • : Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will take a closer look at subdomain takeovers: what they are and how you can make sure they don’t happen to your site.

June 2022 meeting agenda

  • : Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • Centralizing News on Drupal: Wil Samson and Alex Bonilla from the Department of Medicine will provide a walk-through of their centralized news system designed to empower the department and its divisions through timely and broad publication of articles.
  • : Securing your GitHub code repository is an important step in preventing software supply-chain security attacks. In the first of an occasional series on this topic, we’ll start with a basic primer on git and GitHub, explore the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ GitHub service, examine how to manage access in GitHub.

May 2022 meeting agenda

May 5

  • : Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • Updates from the Privacy Office: Ann Nagel, Associate Vice Provost and Institutional Privacy Official, will give an overview of new initiatives at the Privacy Office.
  • : For our next Web Security Short, Peter Giles will present a “News Bytesâ€� episode covering a handful of fresh security stories of interest to web developers and content creators.

April 2022 meeting agenda

April 7

  • : Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • : Teri Shelton, Front End Developer on the Web Strategy team in UMAC, will introduce and demo Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Events, a new WordPress plugin for event marketing. After the presentation, we will have a short interactive feedback session.

March 2022 meeting agenda

March 3

  • : Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • :ÌýCourtney Coster, director of brand strategy in UMAC, will share an update on the brand calibration project and provide some milestones of note for this year.
  • : Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will provide some tips and guidance to help you increase your security (and privacy) when browsing the web.

February 2022 meeting agenda

February 3

  • : Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • : Designer Clarita Hinojosa will share findings about this group of prospective students and their families to help inform messaging and design.
  • : We use copy-and-paste every day in our digital world. In this security short, Jeane Marty from the Office of the CISO will look at a couple of clipboard-related tools and tasks, and share some tips on how to use them securely.

January 2022 meeting agenda

January 6

  • :ÌýThom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will share the latest news and notes from around the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ web.
  • :ÌýRebecca Gourley, digital content producer for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News, will share easy (and free) ways to start incorporating accessible data in your web stories. (Mentioned:Ìý)
  • : Pete Graff from The Office of the CISO will talk about the risks and benefits of using third party code in your applications.

December 2021 meeting agenda

December 2

  • :ÌýThom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will share the latest news and notes from around the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ web.
  • Distilling Drupal:ÌýAlex Bonilla and Wil Samson from the Department of Medicine will provide a walk-through of a new customized Drupal system designed to empower the editor with a streamlined experience.
  • : In this security short we’ll cover sanitizing user-supplied content, why it is important for the security of your web site, and what tools are available to help keep user input squeaky clean.

November 2021 meeting agenda

November 4

:ÌýThom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.

Storytelling:ÌýUMAC Creative Director Murphy Gilson thinks the secret to our species’ success may have something to do with our ability to tell great knock-knock jokes. Discover how storytelling is crucial to our survival and how you can stop being boring at parties.

Security Shorts: Hot off the press – Software supply chain attack hits web development community.  Peter Giles, senior developer & data analyst will take a look at the recent UA-Parser-JS NPM package compromise.

October 2021 meeting agenda

October 7

: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as Autumn Quarter gets underway.

: Teri Shelton, Front-End Developer in UMAC, will give us an overview of the new Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ WordPress theme, including a live demo showing how easy it is to create a rich, engaging web page using the new theme components. Q&A session to follow.