We're happy to report that our first Web sites in Phase 1a of our migration went live on Friday, December 17. The Anthropology and Sociology are available to their owners for editing in Echo CI. It's taken us longer to get here than we expected because of some significant implementation speedbumps which have now been resolved.

The remaining Phase 1a sites are expected to go live in early January 2011. Migration work has already begun on Phase 1b sites, which along with the bulk of the University's web sites, will be migrated to Echo CI during the Spring 2011 semester.

We have a lot of content to migrate, and it's going to take some time to complete. According to our current experience, it will take about 1 hour or less (2 hours or more for larger sites) per unique site to migrate using the available tools and to perform the necessary quality assurance, and we estimate we have 200+ unique sites to migrate. With further migration experience we hope to reduce the time required.

Thanks to everyone for their continued patience and participation in this project, and happy holidays from the Echo CI team!