Our second Core Group meeting went well yesterday. We reviewed our requirements grid for Phase 1 of the project, and discussed the WCM survey in more detail.

The revised survey was shown to the group. It is designed in such a way to filter our responses for those employees that don't work on Web sites. For those that do work on Web sites (but haven't used our existing WCM system, Collage), we will be able to gather feedback on their needs for web publishing as well.

The group also discussed WCM use within the CSU system. As of today, 22 of 23 campuses have responded. 74% of campuses responded that they are using a WCM. 17% are using open source products (including Drupal, OpenCMS, WebGUI and Expression Engine), while the remainder use commercial products. The most popular WCM system within the CSU system is currently Hannon Hill Cascade Server; 5 campuses (22%) are using it or are in the process of implementing it.

Finally, in order to avoid confusion with other systems on campus, the team decided that the web content management project should use the acronym "WCM".

Our survey received approval to go live today, so we should be able to issue it within the next week.