Hi All,
There has been quite a thread on the State Coordinator's list about what
the role of an SC and a CC should be and what to do about those CC's who
refuse to keep their site up.
What follows is from Dr. Brian Leverich (Rootsweb's founder). I felt it
was something you might all be interested in reading.
Peace, Judy
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Leverich <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
To: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com <STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD-L] Re: CC responsibilities/guidelines
>
>
>-- Your message was: (from "Leigh Compton")
>
>> If there's a CC who, having built his county page, doesn't want to
>> do any more work with it, then it's time s/he examine why s/he
>> wants to remain a member of the project. If there are time
>> constraints, a co-CC could be recruited to help with the vitality
>> of the web site. If it's a lack of interest and motivation,
>> perhaps it is time to resign.
>
> ------------------
>
>
>This is sort of taking the discussion in a different direction, but
>it's probably useful to surface this issue now.
>
>RootsWeb already provides a bunch of tools for any CC who wants
>them: Web space, mailing lists, GenConnect boards, site search
>engines, ... We expect to be adding a half-dozen new tools like
>those during the next few months.
>
>We are probably going to create the tools for all American counties.
>This poses a real nightmare of a problem when the USGW CC doesn't
>want them -- do we give the tools to the ALHN county, do we give the
>tools to an interested RootsWeb Sponsor, or what do we do?
>
>But that's *our* problem, not yours.
>
>I think RootsWeb will probably implement a first-come, first-served
>policy, but we'll cheat a bit and make sure that USGW has the
>opportunity to be first-come. However, this still means that some
>ALHN counties and some independent Webmasters are going to wind up
>with fairly powerful tools when the USGW CC doesn't want them.
>
>OK, now here's *your* problem:
>
>While it doesn't matter beans whether a CC uses RootsWeb or not,
>USGW as a whole is going to suffer if ALHN or some other
>organization winds up having counties that are spiffier and more
>useful than USGW counties.
>
>That means USGW needs to be finding some way to maintain quality
>standards for its county sites such that all of them are at least as
>good as what can be done with the off-the-shelf RootsWeb tools. For
>example, you are going to need to find ways to guarantee that your
>CCs can maintain queries at least as well as they can be maintained
>on a GC board, you are going to need to find ways to guarantee that
>your CCs can foster conversations between genealogists as well as a
>mailing list can, ...
>
>If you can't enforce that kind of quality on your county sites, ALHN
>or independent Webmasters are going to start drawing off traffic and
>eating into the prestige of USGenWeb as a whole. That's a big lose
>for all of us who wish USGenWeb well.
>
>Just food for thought, B.
>
>
>--
>Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
>RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
http://www.rootsweb.com/
>P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich(a)rootsweb.com
>
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