This has the potential to affect all of us. I have to tell you, for
those CC's, that perhaps do not know, I am, as well as SC of WI, ASC
for ME, and CC of two ME and one WI counties. I am as well, an
Advisory Board, NE/NC County Coordinator Representative for the
USGenWeb Project. I am also a member of the "starter committee"
examining the need for formation of this committee.
Presented below is a survey that I hope each of you who wish to, will
take the time and consideration to answer, mindful of your role within
the USGenWeb Project community, mindful of your role within WIGenWeb
Project, and perhaps even more mindful of your role as a researcher
and visitor to all of our pages.
Tina
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
Old-To: USGenWeb list <usgenweb-all-l(a)rootsweb.com>,
Daily Board Show <dailyboardshow(a)yahoogroups.com>,
usgenweb-sw-l(a)rootsweb.com
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