[Web Comm] Re: [OSGeo-Board] Re: [Web Comm] Web Committee Chair

[Jason Birch]

It was my first choice of approach, but the mandate of the web committee
as approved by the board is far more restrictive than I remembered.  I
don't think that under its current wording that it would be possible to
maintain a lively and active contributor list.

It may be better for WebCom to be a sub group of VisCom.  I don't have
any interest in physical or non-web visibility items, but it might be
easier to coordinate these items with the online presence as part of the
same entity. 

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Frank
Warmerdam
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:35
To: Arnulf Christl
Cc: dev at webcommittee.osgeo.org; OSGeo-Board
Subject: [Web Comm] Re: [OSGeo-Board] Re: [Web Comm] Web Committee Chair

Arnulf Christl wrote:
> If WebCom was moribund, then it just died. Amen (Jo - thanks for the 
> short ceremony in the other mail).

Arnulf,

Just died?  I think this might be a bit premature.  I think VisCom has
too much on it's hands to be worried about managing all aspects of the
web site too, and I feel that a distinct web site committee that manages
the content and appearance of the web site is quite justified.

In fact, I took Jo's most recent email on the subject to be supportive
of keeping WebCom as it's own going concern with a broad mandate to
develop content and organization for the web site.  Perhaps I need to
re-read it.

I also took that to be Jason's first choice of approach.

Of course, I do think it is necessary to have some overlap in membership
between VisCom and WebCom so that the messages mesh.

Best regards,
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