[amsat-bb] Re: broken links

[Joel Black]

Alan,

Not sure what I can do, but I'll give a hand where I can.

73,
Joel/W4JBB

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Alan VE4YZ <ve4yz at mts.net> 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 <glasbrenner at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> So who among you would like to volunteer to rewrite some of the articles
> and
> bring them up to date?
>
>
>
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