Forwarded, by request of Brian Randell
Hi
We are seeking volunteers to fill vacancies that have arisen for
county page developers in GENUKI, the UK & Ireland Genealogical
information service, particularly but not solely in Scotland. GENUKI
is widely regarded as the premier on-line source for information
about UK genealogy - it now contains more than 30,000 pages,
occupying over 450 Mbytes of information, and over fifty people (many
of whom have further helpers) are involved in its maintenance.
The counties concerned are:
ENGLAND - Berkshire, London, Middlesex, Shropshire, Somerset, Surrey
SCOTLAND - Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Dunbartonshire,
Dumfriesshire, Kincardineshire, Midlothian, Moray, Nairnshire,
Peebles-shire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland,
Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian
WALES - Merionethshire, Monmouthshire
The main requirements of county page volunteers are threefold:
1. Either considerable experience of family research in the specific
area(s), or local knowledge and contacts within the area.
2. The ability to create simple HTML pages directly and also maintain
them (including a basic understanding of HTML, directory structure
management, and FTP).
3. Lots of enthusiasm!
The work involved in taking responsibility for a county page is
described at
http://www.genuki.org.uk/org/guide.html. The amount of
work that county page developers do varies considerably, and is of
course governed by the amount of time they have available, the extent
to which they can enlist the help of others - as indeed many have
successfully done - and the level of ambition that they set for their
pages. This is of course influenced by what other volunteers are
managing elsewhere on their GENUKI county and parish pages - many of
which have become rather impressive! However, we are keen to get to
the stage where all the rest of our counties have at least basic
information pages for all of their parishes.
I'd be happy to try and answer any queries from potential volunteers
for the above counties - and would also encourage people interested
in helping with any of the other counties to contact the respective
county page maintainer directly. (His/her name is to be found via the
link to GENUKI maintainers near the foot of the GENUKI main page,
http://www.genuki.org.uk/.)
Anyone interested in helping with the Ireland section of GENUKI,
which also has a number of vacancies, is invited to contact Richard
White <white(a)hiwaay.net>.
cheers
Brian Randell
Brian.Randell(a)newcastle.ac.uk
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