A Womans Place Service Learning Program UC Merced

A Woman’s Place Service Learning Program UC Merced December 11, 2007

Team Organization § Bryan Chiem: Team Leader § Martin Sanchez: Communications Specialist § Content Team: § Ashley Chiang § Maribel Gallardo § Server Team: § § § Karl Lopker Matthew Nguyen Jose Martinez § Web Team: § Anthony Emuh § Rafael Granados § Rolando Rosas

Mission Statement § A Woman’s Place is a non-profit organization whose mission is “to shelter and help empower victims/survivors of domestic abuse to become safe, secure and self-reliant; and through education and collaboration, to mobilize our community to help prevent domestic violence. ”

Ultimate Goal § Make AWP more efficient using the tools they already have.

Fall Semester Project 1. Continue building plone-based website. 2. Acquire a server for AWP 1. 2. 3. Fix network Set-up file-database at their HQ Secure server, and prep for website hosting

Project Organization

Funding for Server § Donor letter from last semester granted us $1000 § Enough money to purchase server

Purchasing Server § Research for most efficient server type/build § Compile proposal to AWP to purchase sever § Proposal recently approved

What is Plone? § Plone is an open source content manager that is built on object-oriented Zope application server. § Plone can run on various platforms and has support for internationalization, and complies with accessibility and usability standards. § Plone is good to be used for intranet and extranet servers, document publishing, portal server, and groupware, which is used for collaboration between separately located places.

Update Website § Training for Plone

Update Website § Reasons: § Current site is purely HTML based § Unable to update/change without knowledge of HTML § Editing in Plone is simple § Changing content in Plone is as simple as using a word-processing program § Cost AWP money § Looks Plain

Client Website ( last semester)

This semester’s updates on our client website….

Summary § Server Team: § Fixed network structure at HQ § Researched server with optimal settings for funds given § Prepared set-up plan for server security and maintenance § Compiled proposal to buy server § Looked into security settings

Summary § Web Team: § § § Redesigned overall website layout Designed new page layouts Implemented Calendar Implemented Donation Page Made progress on alternative Spanish site § Content Team § Gathered more content for website § Revised current content § Documented progress and gathered more information

THANK YOU Dean Wright Dr. German Gavilan Matt Dudys Agnes Bardini

Contact Info. § § Bryan Chiem bchiem@ucmerced. edu § Martin Sanchez: Msanchez 5@ucmerced. edu § Anthony Emuh: iemuh@ucmerced. edu § Rafael Granados: Rgranados 2@ucmerced. edu Jose Martinez jmartinez 25@ucmerced. edu § Ashley Chiang achiang@ucmerced. edu § Rolando Rosas rrosas-garcia@ucmerced. edu § Karl Lopker: § klopker@ucmerced. edu § Matthew Nguyen § mnguyen 37@ucmerced. edu § Maribel Gallardo § mgallardo@ucmerced. edu