The migration is rolling along smoothly. The Web Services team has established a consistent workflow and schedule, and each migration phase is progressing more quickly as the team familiarizes itself with the EchoCI administrative interface.
Current estimates are that we have completed between 20-25% of the migration from Collage to EchoCI. Migrated pages and sites include:
- Top level pages (including Current Students, Future Students, Staff, Visitors, etc)
- 32 academic and administrative web sites
The 4th migration group will include 32 additional administrative web sites. The migration time turnaround for each group is typically 3 weeks total, according to the following example schedule:
Day 1: notification to the content owners of migration
Day 5: content locked from editing in Collage
Days 5-9: Web Services team migrates site content (using EchoCI migration tools) and performs manual quality assurance testing and verification.
Day 8: EchoCI training workshop led by Web Services (required for content editors, optional for content owners)
Days 10-13:
- Review and sign off on migrated content by content owners
- enable edit access for content owners
- Launch sites
- Select and notify next group of owners
To facilitate migration, we have requested that content owners actively notify us of approval to proceed. If no response is given, it is assumed that Web Services has approval to proceed with the migration.
During the week of March 7, several members of the project team attended the annual OmniUpdate User Conference in Universal City, CA. In addition to participating in training, attendees were given a glimpse at the roadmap for the new features which are coming to EchoCI in 2011, including:
- Multi-file ZIP upload
- Dependency Manager (to keep track of links); and
- Publish to Facebook directly from EchoCI
Please contact Peter Mosinskis or Daniel Martinez for further information on these upcoming features, or comments/questions about the migration status or migration process.
