Another two sites I really like reading on a daily basis are www.slashdot.org and www.lifehacker.com. What do y'all think.
I agree with Bill, it should be a community effort in case folks get burned out or become unavailable.
73, Joel/W4JBB
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Bill Ress bill@hsmicrowave.com wrote:
Hi David.....Good suggestion but the same old problem. Whose going to do it???
Your Board knows the web site needs fixing . . . but whose going to volunteer to do the fixing. It was set up by volunteers who are no longer around to fix it.
We sure hear about the problems, and the web site has its share. All these great solutions but no one willing to part of those solutions. But then, it's so much easier to point out the problems than it is to try and fix then.
Now I understand it can be hard to find technical talent to volunteer to build a satellite but you would think it would be a whole lot easier to find a volunteer(s) that can handle web site management. But alas...it is not to be.
Oh well, lets keep hitting the Board up side the head, like that will surely solve the problem.
Any of this sinking in out there? You can bitch about the broken web site all you want but until we get a volunteer(s) to do the bloody work... well you know the story.
Here's a crazy idea. How about you folks putting a "team" together to share the work so that one person isn't overwhelmed with a commitment to fix the problem. Aah - who am I kidding. They'll be no response to that either.
Regards...Bill - N6GHz
David Bate wrote:
How about setting up a wiki style setup and have everyone contribute updates and so on. So no one person is tied down doing all the updates.
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:39:48 -0400, Tim - N3TL n3tl@bellsouth.net
wrote:
John and all,
No disrespect intended to anyone - but I found myself exactly in the place you described in June of last year. The AMSAT Web site helped me way more than it hindered me. I dare say anyone who knows how to use Google or any search engine will find many sources of (likely) way
more
information than he or she will ever need to start working the satellites.
None of this is to suggest that so many bad/out-of-date links is a
good
thing. I second Drew's response - who would like to step up and volunteer to help improve the organization and its Web site?
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL
David Bate wrote:
How about setting up a wiki style setup and have everyone contribute updates and so on. So no one person is tied down doing all the updates.
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:39:48 -0400, Tim - N3TL n3tl@bellsouth.net
wrote:
John and all,
No disrespect intended to anyone - but I found myself exactly in the place you described in June of last year. The AMSAT Web site helped me way more than it hindered me. I dare say anyone who knows how to use Google or any search engine will find many sources of (likely) way more information than he or she will ever need to start working the satellites.
None of this is to suggest that so many bad/out-of-date links is a good thing. I second Drew's response - who would like to step up and volunteer to help improve the organization and its Web site?
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL
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