Ahh righto, I remember now you were hosting but we had students
(myself included) adding content and editing.
I agree it is simply requiring a dedicated body to be handling the
updating of the site; probably allowing other bodies to be brought on
board during times of activities (i.e around conference time).
I also think having a proper proceedings published would greatly aid
the organization work side of things. Simply being forced to offer up
some written pseudo-academic style paper to go along with slides for
publication would ensure that the procedural niceties get followed.
I note we have a crapload of printed vendor booklets - why not add
them into a printed proceedings along with paper abstracts - just like
a real conference ehh. Seems silly to have half a dozen vendor
provided booklets and no printed material from the actual conference
talks.
On 2 April 2013 13:02, Mark Foster
On 02/04/13 11:34, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:
At one point we farmed out the Website tasks to Students at the University (NZNOG2006) hosting it. IIRC that year went well, there were embedded web feeds with slides and speaker bios readily available, and the proceedings were fairly well organized.
Likely wasn't NZNOG 2006... as I hosted that one myself. I still have it, in fact.
There was an attempt by someone to rip the entire site out of the CMS it was built in (Drupal) to Flat HTML, which is what can be found at http://2006.nznog.org, unfortunately it didn't seem to 'work right' - and I still have the original site sitting on my webserver 'just in case' (aka I havn't gotten around to nuking it yet).)
I do support keeping the Universities, etc, involved, as we also have to recognise that one has to start somewhere in the networking biz... but whether it's appropriate to lump the NZNOG website together with the sites that're built for conferences... ?
I suppose the trap is that you have to find someone with the right cloo level, the right availability and the right approach - the points about the avalability of volunteer time have all been well made, and this I understand too (having been 'that guy' many times). Given that the Trust has a budget, I feel that identifying someone who can take the work on in return for some financial compensation, would be the best move. Obviously most of the work around the website tends to coincide with conference and there must be a case to budget for so-many-hours per annum in return for a retainer or something? This could potentially cover both the main website, and web material published for conference purposes, and an ongoing budget could also cover maintaining the data for posterity.
Mark.