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Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:12 am
by vash3g
pwaldron wrote:hyperpape wrote:I've been looking at pdfs of the old BGA Journals. I'd love to see the AGA do something similar. Right now, there are ejournals available starting in 2000, but the physical journal from before then isn't available, afaik.
I suggested this in 2008 (
http://www.usgo.org/media/File/2008_03_ ... Report.pdf) and nothing has come of it. Given this entire process could be outsourced to a company I can only assume they're not interested or it's too expensive.
you cant have my 30 - (maybe) 40 years of scanned pdfs of old aga journals.
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:26 am
by Yertle
vash3g wrote:pwaldron wrote:hyperpape wrote:I've been looking at pdfs of the old BGA Journals. I'd love to see the AGA do something similar. Right now, there are ejournals available starting in 2000, but the physical journal from before then isn't available, afaik.
I suggested this in 2008 (
http://www.usgo.org/media/File/2008_03_ ... Report.pdf) and nothing has come of it. Given this entire process could be outsourced to a company I can only assume they're not interested or it's too expensive.
you cant have my 30 - (maybe) 40 years of scanned pdfs of old aga journals.
Then maybe a certain AGA webmaster could...
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:47 am
by vash3g
thread petered out a month after congress just like every year, gg
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:55 pm
by jts
Well, what would you like to see added to it?
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:15 pm
by gowan
pwaldron wrote:daniel_the_smith wrote:Thanks for reminding me of that report, I think it's extremely valuable. I also think that, given it's three years old, more than two things in it should have been implemented by now... Did you undertake that on your own, or was it requested by someone?
It was a result of the volunteer's meeting at the Chicago go congress. Mike Lash really wanted it done and I volunteered to do it. It took several months but, as you point out, it didn't catalyze anything meaningful.
One of the chapter reps wanted a better support system for chapters, like a forum. Wasn't there a chapter list-serv active once upon a time? Has that been discontinued?
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:03 pm
by daniel_the_smith
gowan wrote:pwaldron wrote:daniel_the_smith wrote:Thanks for reminding me of that report, I think it's extremely valuable. I also think that, given it's three years old, more than two things in it should have been implemented by now... Did you undertake that on your own, or was it requested by someone?
It was a result of the volunteer's meeting at the Chicago go congress. Mike Lash really wanted it done and I volunteered to do it. It took several months but, as you point out, it didn't catalyze anything meaningful.
One of the chapter reps wanted a better support system for chapters, like a forum. Wasn't there a chapter list-serv active once upon a time? Has that been discontinued?
The chapter list is still down, afaik. I don't know whose responsibility it is.
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:37 pm
by hyperpape
daniel_the_smith wrote:The chapter list is still down, afaik. I don't know whose responsibility it is.
It sounds like the webmaster's job. So if it's not, it's the webmaster's job to convince us that it's not his job.
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:29 pm
by Yertle
hyperpape wrote: It sounds like the webmaster's job. So if it's not, it's the webmaster's job to convince us that it's not his job.
Oh sure, blame the new guy...
The honest answer is that I don't know whose responsibility it is. As far as I can see it wasn't run through the website so I have no access to what was up before (I think it was just a glorified mailing list). We are working on the new website though a chapter forum is not on the to do list. With the new CMS it would be possible to do. I will bring up the issue and see if I get anywhere with it.
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:47 pm
by Joaz Banbeck
gowan wrote:...
One of the chapter reps wanted a better support system for chapters, like a forum...
As noted before, L19 admins will be happy to give the AGA forum space, configured as you wish. You could have private sub forums, public...whatever you want. We are up and running now, and configuration takes an hour or two at most.
If the AGA wants a forum for chapters, it can have it tomorrow. All it has to do is ask.
Re: Upcoming AGA projects, volunteers needed, info, etc etc
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:20 pm
by hilltopgo
Yertle wrote:hyperpape wrote: It sounds like the webmaster's job. So if it's not, it's the webmaster's job to convince us that it's not his job.
Oh sure, blame the new guy...
The honest answer is that I don't know whose responsibility it is. As far as I can see it wasn't run through the website so I have no access to what was up before (I think it was just a glorified mailing list). We are working on the new website though a chapter forum is not on the to do list. With the new CMS it would be possible to do. I will bring up the issue and see if I get anywhere with it.
Hi Yertle, I'm Mike -- the AGA's new Sam Zimmerman. (Wish me luck! What the heck did I get myself into?) If you have write access at usgo.org, there's some stuff we need to update. Like the PDF of a printable membership application -- we should change it so it's not Sam Z.'s home address anymore... Anyway, let's talk soon!
