SCN: Getting together to keep SCN going

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On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Al Boss wrote:
> But we're what we have, and one way or another we all care and have
> something we think we can contribute or we wouldn't be on this email thread.
> I'm hoping we can all keep our focus on the common ground as much as we can
> for as long as we can.
>
> Fair? Possible? Agreeable?

Al,

Along those lines, here's a suggestion for anyone who wants to
contribute. We've all signed volunteer agreements, and the
present limitation for most of us is not having any access to do
anything.

Mailing lists - 
This was and could still be a valuable service to the community.
Find out or make an educated guess at what caused the recent
hours-long delays. If necessary, move majordomo to the least
bogged down machine (scn9?). Someone technically inclined could
volunteer to make sure it's working well. Does anyone but Randy,
who is swamped, still have access to the system to do that? JJ,
anyone?

Web hosting for IPs -
Solve IP help requests in a useful, timely manner. I can't think
of anyone to ask any more, since George is gone, for actual ASAP
help for an IP. Except for Randy, who needs to focus scarce time
on technical projects. Anyone?

Web hosting for people -
Enable FTP (or scp, sftp...) for individual users. A few days
ago I used Freeport to make a personal Web page, after a lot of
frustration. Want to see it? http://www.scn.org/~rclark/ 
With Freeport, we actively prevent people from doing the good
things they want to do with our well-intentioned services.
Randy, Rhodes, JJ?

SCN's Web pages -
Note which IPs have updated their sites recently. Each week,
feature one of them on the home page. Feature any recently added
new IPs there, too (assuming the missing IP help is added).
Lois, Ken, Al, Joe, anyone?

Revise the topic menus to list as SCN IPs only those IPs whose
SCN sites are still alive. Check the rest to see where they've
gone and link to their new sites, if any. We probably have a few
dozen active or semi-active IPs left. Anyone? (I'll do this if
no one else volunteers.)

Revise SCNA pages to reflect reality - 
Since we don't have much to go on, the factual basis for this is
inadequate at present. Postpone indefinitely, until SCN becomes
a functioning group again. But for the moment, at least avoid
displaying pages that are obviously not true any more, such as
the volunteer page that goes to the Not Found page at
VolunteerMatch. Joel, anyone?

Rod Clark
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