Dang Alan...Sounds like a good suggestion. Finally....positive inputs. Starting from the ground up with a "team" around the world able to contribute and maintain and by golly we might have something.
Alan, I'd like you to be the focal/contact point for all you folks out there that can contribute to getting traction on your idea. Give it a little time to see how the idea works out and I'd be very happen to run the resulting proposal to the Board. Remember - the annual Board meeting is just a month away. Regards...Bill - N6GHz Alan VE4YZ wrote: > > IMHO fixing the existing site is not the answer. > > If the executives will okay the use of a Wiki format, I am sure that 3 or 4 > of us can communicate off list to set up a group to install and administer a > Wiki on another server. > > We can call it The SIG ( Satellite Interest Group ) or whatever for now. > Any and All AMSAT members can then be registered to maintain the Wiki. If > the members and executive like the results it can be migrated to the AMSAT > server. It must include RSS, news feeds, and a forum in addition to all the > stuff ( current or otherwise ) on the existing AMSAT site. > > The cost to this 3 or 4 person ( or more ) "steering committee" would be the > registration of a name and a year on a web hosting service such as GoDaddy > what runs a similar server a AMSAT's host. Or, use the AMSAT hosting > company. So this small group would have to come up with less than one > year's AMSAT membership to start this project. > > We use an Open Source Wiki, no more customized PHP like the current site > that is high maintenance and really hard for anyone to get into the head of > any former code whacker to modify or update. > > We need the AMSAT exec okay because there would be a lot of cut 'n paste of > old stuff from the existing site into the pilot project where is would be > available for updating a la Wiki. > > I don't do this for a living, I do maintain a couple of club web sites, but > I bet we have a member reading this who is a professional web-whacker who > might oversee the team and keep us from making dumb decisions such as > choosing the wrong open source wiki to being with. > > That's my 2 cents and just one warm body being offered for the effort. > > 73, Alan VE4YZ > EN19kv > AMSAT LM 2352 > http://www.wincube.ca > > > > > --- On Tue, 9/8/09, Andrew Glasbrenner <[email protected]> wrote: > > So who among you would like to volunteer to rewrite some of the articles and > bring them up to date? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
