[NCUC E-team] Website maintenance tasks

[William Drake]

Thanks Tapani.  We’ll obviously need to figure out soon how to handle all the e-platform stuff as you step back from this…Any suggestions from others would be most welcome!

Bill

On Dec 10, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO> wrote:

> 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
> _______________________________________________
> E-team mailing list
> E-team at lists.ncuc.org
> http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e-team

**********************************************************
William J. Drake
International Fellow & Lecturer
  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
william.drake at uzh.ch (w), wjdrake at gmail.com (h),
  www.williamdrake.org
***********************************************************

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/e-team/attachments/20131210/95a4184a/attachment-0002.html>