SCN vs non-SCN IPs in Community Pages (fwd)

[Rod Clark]

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:05:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Rod Clark <bb615 at scn.org>
To: Terry Trimingham <ttrim at scn.org>
Cc: services at scn.org, webmasters at scn.org
Subject: Re: SCN vs non-SCN IPs in Community Pages

> Well, I figured there was no consensus, that is why the question
> was being asked. However, your reply did not answer my question. Is
> my understanding of what the question was correct? Was the question
> Melissa asked referring to re-organizing the topic pages, or
> something else?

Terry, 

   The question was about whether SCN's "Community Pages" menus
should mostly feature an index of what's on SCN's server, and
secondarily have some other information available about outside
sites, or on the other hand whether the SCN site should try harder
than we've done in the past to be a comprehensive and up-to-date
guide to worthwhile sites all over the city. That's something we've
never really tried to be, for most of the Community Pages topics.
Steve Hoffman was the one who actually asked this question, during
his recent reorganization of the Activism pages.

   It's not an easy question, for one thing because it would mean a
lot more time and work needed. Who's going to do that work? Basically
I'm not, and you're not. So this means more volunteers involved in
the Web site, and then we'd have to figure out how we organize and
manage those people. How do we maintain the quality and focus of the
result? Right now, SCN has some good menus and some poor ones. Some
of the Community Pages menus of outside links, in my opinion, are too
out of date and too out of touch with their subject matter.

   Your earlier question about Web-related "job descriptions" was a
good one. We haven't yet discussed such a job description for the
topic editors. Ideally we should come up with something that everyone
is clear on, and can agree with. If you'd like to write down what you
think that should be, that would help, and it's something we should
talk about at the next meeting or two.

Rod


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