[Webcom] so how are we doing here?

[R. Paul Warriner]

The following is an act of self-punishment, and not to be construed as commments towards anyone else.

Well, that was an exercise in futility. Understandably, I have no more permissions than anyone else in this conversation. It appears that most of the responsibility of this committee has propogated to SAC and other groups. I know this is sounding like something from the "bureaucrat" permissions group, but it appears some of us do not even rate that level anymore.

So, I have to ask; how do we make WebCom relevant again, and what is the purpose of the group? Well, I can only go by what is published, and right off the bat, we are 8 years behind in our monthly reports (and obviously, forget about the "create, maintain, and update" portion at the moment). :)

Reprinted (for a knock on my own head):

The OSGeo Web Site Committee (WebCom) was established at the first OSGeo board meeting. In general, you can blame us for all content in www.osgeo.org, and other non-project-specific web sites. Committee status information, policies, meeting minutes and working documents live in the WebCOM Wiki http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Website_Committee .

The web site committee has responsibilities to:

* create, maintain, and update the content for the foundation web site.
* recommend appropriate website technologies (e.g. wiki)
* decide and implement a site wide style guideline.
* support foundation projects in use of portal technologies and common style.
* add and remove committee members as needed.
* report back to the board (via Chair) to the board monthly on activities and issues.
* pursue translation of portions of the site into other languages.


I guess my first question is, does a reboot mean we start at the beginning, and quickly read and store what we need to accomplish the tasks, and if we do not understand the instruction set, throw out a notice, give a warning, or full stop for further informations?


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>     On August 5, 2016 at 8:43 AM "R. Paul Warriner" <paul at warriner.us> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks strk. I'm back in, and will start getting back up to speed by poking around. :)
> 
>         > > 
> >         On August 5, 2016 at 7:08 AM Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> > 
> >         On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 06:28:51AM -0400, paul warriner.us wrote:
> > 
> >             > > > 
> > >                 > > > > 
> > > >                 Hello everyone,
> > > > 
> > > >             > > > 
> > >             Sorry for my complete lack of involvement with this, but it has been an interesting few years. I recently found I have some time on my hands to also assist, if needed.
> > > 
> > >             I tried my old login, but cannot remember my password, and found the reset disabled.
> > > 
> > >                 > > > > 
> > > >                 It was disabled by Frank because not functional anyway, see detail here:
> > > >                 https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1758
> > > > 
> > > >                 I have been building some internal drupal sites at OP, using v7, and think I could be of assistance for some of the maintenance.
> > > > 
> > > >                 Maybe you can help to properly have it redirect to the correct
> > > >                 password reset script (see the above ticket) ?
> > > > 
> > > >                 If needed, I'm here.
> > > > 
> > > >                 There is a "WebSite" component on the osgeo trac, you could pick
> > > >                 any of the tickets there to help:
> > > > 
> > > >             > > > 
> > >         > > 
> >         https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&component=WebSite https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&component=WebSite https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&component=WebSite https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&component=WebSite
> >         Note that #1758 (first link) is marked as "closed" so won't show
> >         up in the query output, so if you want to start there consider
> >         reopening it.
> > 
> >         Happy WebCom reboot !
> > 
> >         --strk;
> > 
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> >     >