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November 2023 Web Council Agenda

Meeting date: Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 at 9 a.m.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around the UW web as we enter the second half of fall quarter.

Options for hosting your website at the UW: Thom Thorpe – you may remember him from such presentations as “Word on the Street” – will give us an overview of many of the ways in which a unit can host a website here at the UW.

Major WordPress theme updates: Lauren Caple, associate director of web development in UMAC, will give us an update on upcoming upgrades to our WordPress theme.

Security Short: Jeane Marty, software engineer in the Office of Information Security, will wrap up the “Securing your GitHub code repository” series by focusing on tools like code scanning and secret scanning, as well as various remaining security features. If you’d like to catch up on previous topics in this series, see the Part 1 and Part 2 slides.