[clue-admin] Focus and direction some

[Crawford Rainwater]

----- "Jed S. Baer" <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote: -----

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> For the moment, let's get the mailing list issue settled, then attack
> the question of hosting, since our contract is up for renewal.
> 
> I suggest tabling the discussion of a Charter, re-alignment of CLUE
> admin positions, and elections, until at least the previous 2 items are
> settled.
> 

Jed has a valid point.  Seems everyone has changed focus from the VPSLink renewal which I would put before this email list issue since the renewal is due 01 Jan 2011.  Now granted, David A. has collected donations if I am following the CLUE-Admin postings correctly (thanks and nice job BTW!).  But that leaves, "what does the future entail?" still.  As noted along these recent topics is that everyone seems to get excited (or perhaps panicked) at the last minute, then things fade to "what was that issue?" when it comes up (several months) later.

So current topics that need to be addressed:
- VPSLink renewal (pretty much in check) for 2011
- Email list(s) topic
- Web site "gen 2" or CMS'ed or revamped
- CLUE Charter
- CLUE elections and/or admin positions

Now to throw a historical deal into the mix on the latter.  Typically one remained as "CLUE President" until there was a desire to "pass the torch" such as with Jeff Cann to Dennis on the last term.  Now there is a request for having "elections" for positions of such.  Did I miss something about Dennis desiring to "pass the torch" or was there an assumption that came up from someone somewhere?  Same with the "charter" since I am pondering why something now when it has not been done since CLUE started perhaps or even became a bit more organized (if such can be quantified of course)?  Just putting this on the table as food for thought.

> Perhaps Dennis can provide an update on his progress with Drupal. Last
> I heard there was mention of some other CMS. Knowing more about the
> status of this item will help with establishing priorities. My guess is that
> we don't have enough data on this yet, for it to influence our decision
> on hosting.
> 

I would be interested in a status on such.  Worst case I could attempt to make a quick Drupal site as well (minus the Mailman side initially) since I am working on a Drupal front end for CLUE "webinars" or "presentations" to go with the webinar/conferencing system.  Thought since others mentioned interest in the main CLUE web site via a CMS, I have no issues seeing the results.

FWIW.

--- Crawford

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