[aclug-L] Re: volunteers

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What time is the meeting?
and where?



Tom Hull wrote:
> 
> Some thoughts in the wake of last night's meeting:
> 
>  1) There was some (I think inconclusive, although maybe I'm just
>     hoping) discussion about organizational structure, membership,
>     voting, etc. Someone needs to formalize some sort of proposal.
>     (Let's face it, "Dictator for Life" doesn't cut it.)
> 
>     My own proto-proposal is simply that the "committee" should
>     be thrown open to anyone who wants actively participate in
>     it, and that "committee" discussions should be public. First
>     one attempts to achieve consensus; only failing that do we
>     fall back on voting (which raises the who-gets-to-vote issue).
> 
>     I also think there are at least three clear-cut roles that
>     need to be filled:
> 
>      a) Someone to deal with high-level organizational matters.
> 
>      b) Someone to plan and run the meetings, events, etc.
> 
>      c) Someone to build and direct the website.
> 
>     These could, of course, be multiple people in each case;
>     some people could take on multiple roles.
> 
>  2) The role I am interested in is building the software and
>     directing the content for the website. (I hope that someone
>     else can deal with the basic issues of hosting and sysadmin
>     the website.) The approach I favor (and I'll write up more
>     on this later) is to use a mix of existing and custom (new)
>     software; the latter would be a proper software bazaar
>     project; most of the content would be collected from users.
>     My favorite software for this sort of website is OpenACS:
> 
>       http://www.openacs.org/
> 
>     OpenACS software tracks community members (log in, get a
>     cookie); provides extensive support for community interests
>     (news, forums, faq-builder, polls/surveys, classified ads,
>     member pages); has flexible admin options; has support for
>     programmed tutorials (it can step you through a tutorial,
>     administer quizzes, and since it tracks members, keep your
>     place across sessions; it can make suggestions based on
>     what you've seen). OTOH, it needs some work to clean up,
>     apply a nifty design, and hack in new features, and content
>     like the FAQs needs human editing.
> 
>  3) I'd like to suggest that next Monday's meeting split into
>     two groups (after some preliminaries), one for meetings and
>     the other for website. (Website was largely ignored at last
>     night's meeting.)
> 
>  4) The other point that bears repeating is that right now it
>     is exceptionally important to show up at Monday's meeting,
>     although any comments made on this list are most welcome.
> 
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