[amsat-bb] Re: broken links

[Bill Ress]

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 <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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