Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:37:41 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
        WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Concerning the draft of WSFA minutes; WSFA lists
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 02:43 PM 11/19/2005 -0500, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>"Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
>
>> It is customary for the Secretary to post the draft minutes for
>> comment so that corrections and clarifications can be incorporated
>> before they go into the Journal.
>
>A custom I originated when I started as secretary a year and a half ago.

And one I hope continues, as it is a good one.  It's caught a number of
potential errors in the brief time I've been back...often of the "who said
it" variety, since you had a tape to reference for what was said.

>Nobody has yet stepped forward to take over the website, so for the
>moment I'm still the webmaster.

I suspect that someone will step up soon.  If it gets to the deadline
without that, I've said to Sam that I'm willing to help out on an interim
basis.  I don't claim to be a "webmaster" (yet) though, and I think we have
more than one member who does that stuff for a living and should find it
trivially easy to do what's needed to keep the site going.

I am interested in the subject, and am working on learning more about
it...as the stack of books at my elbow here would attest (Webmaster in a
Nutshell, HTML4 for the World Wide Web, PHP in a Nutshell, Perl in a
Nutshell, PHP, Apache and MySQL Web Development, Perl and CGI, etc.).  I've
also just installed Dreamweaver 8 (I'm the new Webmaster for the Montgomery
County HOG chapter, and some things on that site really need it...the
Shockwave buttons for instance...editing them with DEBUG was getting old
real fast!).  I didn't create the site (the prior web master did that), but
I'm keeping it going and up to date...anyone who wants to see it can go to
http://www.mchog.com.  DreamWeaver seems to be a really well-thought-out
program, and makes working with that site almost trivially easy...and much
less time consuming than using Notepad and WinFTP.

>Is Ernest official secretary, or just acting secretary?

Official for the remainder of your term.

>If the former, who has replaced him as trustee?

I believe it is Elizabeth Celest  (that info is in the draft minutes posted
to that Yahoo group Ernest is testing...the link that Elspeth posted).

>Have there been any other changes?

Not that I know of.

>I'd also like to know if meeting locations have changed, so I can keep
>calendar.htm up to date.

Not so far, unless something happened at Third Friday.  I wasn't there, due
to eye surgery earlier in the week.

>Please keep in mind I'm only still acting as webmaster to smooth the
>transition.  If nobody approved by the club steps forward, late next
>month I will update the website to indicate that it's unmaintained,
>and direct the club's president to change its password to something
>not known to me.

I think it's very good of you to do this.  Many people, given the
circumstances and feelings associated with your leaving, would have just
said, "It's not my problem, I'm out of here, good luck, good riddance and
good bye!"  That you are hanging in there to make the transition as smooth
as possible is to your credit.  Thank you.

>I've also prepared a document describing how to be webmaster.

The prior MC-HOG webmaster did the same, and I've found it vitally
important more than once.  It really helped smooth my taking over the job.

-- Mike B.

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