Subj: [STATE-COORD-L] Re: Brief survey regarding guidelines
Date: 2/18/2002 7:38:27 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: hollyft(a)bright.net
Reply-to: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com
Although I would have preferred Ms. Lindquist being a bit more explicit
that this was her survey of her constituents rather than a survey sent out
by the Guidelines committee, her questions are on the whole well put and
the results certainly of interest to me so I am forwarding this to lists
on
which it has not yet appeared and the two lists it did to clarify
it's
origin. I have added my own comments to two of the questions which I felt
were slightly misleading or unclear in their implications.
Holly Timm
USGenWeb National Coordinator
>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:39:26 -0500
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>From: merope <merope(a)Radix.Net>
>Subject: [ALL-L] Brief survey regarding guidelines
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>As you may know, several of us are working on the establishment of a
>guidelines committee. In order to assist the committee as it works to
>formulate , I would like to get your opinions on several issues that have
>come up before the committee. Please add any comments you feel are
>necessary, and please feel free to send this along anywhere you like.
I'd
>appreciate as many responses as possible and from as wide a range
of
>project members as possible. In your response, please let me know if you
>are a CC and/or SC and/or a member of a Special Project.
>
>FYI, the current guidelines for CCs are posted at:
>http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/countypage.html; guidelines for SCs
are
>here:
http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/statepage.html. There
are also
>some minimal page requirements in the bylaws, which are
>here:
http://www.usgenweb.org/official/bylaws.html
>
>1) Have you ever visited or used any of the pages above, prior to this
>survey? If so, did you find them helpful?
>
>2) What, if any, are the deficiencies you see in the current guidelines?
>
>3) What changes would you like to see to the Guidelines in this respect?
>
>4) Does your state currently have its own guidelines established? (please
>identify the state if the answer is yes).
>
>5) Should the USGenWeb retain the query page requirement?
This rather simplifies the possibilities regarding the query requirement
into a straight yes or no on query involvement at all. The current
requirement is that each county site must maintain queries but there has
been some talk that now that there are numerous query possibilities such
as
GenForum and the GenConnect boards that are now merged with
Ancestry's
boards, that perhaps just requiring a link or links to query boards for a
county would be sufficient.
>6) Should the proposed guidelines committee include the formation of
>guidelines for the Special Projects?
>
>7) In your opinion, does the Project need national level standardized
>guidelines for state, county and special projects pages?
>
>7) What are your opinions on the establishment of an "oversight"
committee
>to assist CCs and SCs in meeting these guidelines or any future
guidelines
>that may be addressed?
Two #7's Teresa? You're slipping <grin>... this possibly implies a *page
police* type committee but what has actually been brought up mostly has
been something more along the lines of a resource for assistance and web
site maintenance questions so please include that possibility in your
thoughts and responses to the above "oversight" committee question.
>Thanks in advance for your responses! You may respond directly to this
>list or to me directly. I will forward all responses to the Guidelines
>'starter' committee.
>
>-Teresa Lindquist
>Representative At Large, USGenWeb Project
>merope(a)radix.net