[NCUC E-team] Website maintenance tasks

Tapani Tarvainen ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info
Tue Dec 10 13:32:59 CET 2013


Looking at the website, here're some substasks that should
be done regularly (and as noted, these don't require any
serious technical skills):

* Banner photo and CD date should be changed after each meeting,
preferably as soon as possible (or as soon as a photo of the
next meeting is available). Three times a year, that is.
And indeed this should be done right now (volunteers welcome).
Wilson, you've done this in the past, it might be helpful if
you explained how it's done.

* EC member page, http://www.ncuc.org/governance/executive-committee/,
should be update yearly after each election and possibly in between
if a member resigns &c. 
(Unless someone beats me to it, I will do this as soon as the election
results are in, although some photos will probably need to be added later.)

* EC meetings page, http://www.ncuc.org/governance/ec-meetings/,
should be updated after each meeting, as soon as minutes or
a transcript is available. (It's just a list of links to
mailing list archives, very easy to edit.)

* Elections pages, like http://www.ncuc.org/governance/elections-2013/,
can perhaps be left alone but should at least be removed from the menu
after the election is over, and of course a new one should be created
when the next election is at hand.

* Forthcoming events, http://www.ncuc.org/events/forthcoming-events/,
should be maintained at least to the extent of moving events away
from there once they're over. (Right now someone might want to
remove BA meeting and add Singapore.)

* Adding new users. At least all EC members should have logins
to Wordpress. (Roles may require some thought. Perhaps "author"
might be appropriate initial role, changed to "editor" when
need arises; "contributor" could be used for people who need
some looking after, maybe even for all NCUC members by default.
And "guest" can be used for people who should see hidden
menu entries but not write anything themselves.)

Those are perhaps most critical to keep the site from appearing
derelict. Member list at http://www.ncuc.org/participate/members/
as well as all (?) pages with member statistics, including the map
image, are automatically updated from the member database, they
do not need to be manually maintained.

Of course it would be nice if new content was also added regularly,
blog entries, additions to Statements and Letters, &c,
but those don't fall under maintenance by any standard.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen


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