SCN: Hello?

[Jim Loring]

Thanks Joe for responding.

You bring up some interesting points. While I don't consider older and/or
previous pages "demoted" by being placed in an archive, it is of some
importance to figure some way of determining what material is no longer
current.

In a sense, merely updating links and adding and deleting notices changes
the pages, and this has been one method of keeping SCN current. Yet this
method may, by some, be inadequate for larger updates and modifications.

Interesting points, Joe.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Mabel [mailto:jmabel at speakeasy.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:36 AM
To: Jim Loring
Cc: scn at scn.org
Subject: Re: SCN: Hello?


It's really hard to know what to think of this without knowing what you
intend
to demote to "archive" status.  How do you intend to decide that certain
content
is no longer current? I hope that in any case you don't plan to change its
URLs:
If you do so, you'll screw up any links to it that may exist.

That said, if there is actually any outdated content that deserves such
demotion, it may well be a good idea.  But I, for one, would certainly want
to
know your criteria before I endorsed this.

--------------------
Joe Mabel

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jim Loring wrote:

> Hello All -
>
> Say, just thinking out loud, I was wondering how everyone felt about the
> topic of directory simplification and the archiving old SCN material such
as
> web pages?
>
> It would be nice to simplify some of the directories as it might make it
> easier for folks viewing SCN web pages to navigate and find information.
It
> would also be easier to edit the various sections.
>
> I think it would be interesting to archive some of the old web pages, and
> make them available somewhere on SCN - a "Museum of SCN," if you will.
>
> Finally, we need to update some of the content on the pages, to keep SCN
> useful and something folks might want to use as an up-to-date reference.
>
> So - ideas? We can chat about this at the SCN General meeting on
Wednesday.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jim Loring
> webeditors at scn.org
>
> Seattle Community Network - "Powering Our Communities with Technology"
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