I like to express my thanks to Peter Jones for his careful editing of
"Fleabyte: A Medium for Global Civics." The improved presentation has
now been posted as www.fleabyte.org/Flb-future.html (01)
Anybody who has read it will know that I doubt we can make a go of it,
but it seems so irresponsible not to give it a try. (02)
Major obstacles at this point: (03)
1. My own limited capacity and capabilities. (04)
2. We haven't got a project manager, whose first concern would be help
bringing in the funding, etc. (05)
3. We haven't yet an editor who can generate and steer volunteer
contributors. (06)
I am trying to address these points. In the meantime there is something
a technologically savvy volunteer in this group can do and that is to
make the workings of the Fleabyte site more efficient. I mean, not tell
me how, but actually do it. (07)
I spent almost all day yesterday trying to convert the site to decent
XHTML which I am told is the most likely stepping stone for future
development. But (a) I have trouble recalling XHTML details (haven't
touched it for about to years) and (b) I jave troubles with the Mozilla
(on Linux) composer. I seem to recall that I ran into that twice before
and for another job went over to handcoding on a plain text editor. (08)
Point, however, is that one must be able to quickly move articles onto
and off the front page while updating the contents bar and the
click-step feature. Similar for the archives. I'll be glad to share my
access id and password to the server with a conscientious, competent
person who shares my notion that this work IS important. (09)
My private email address is vaneyken@sympatico.ca (010)
Henry (011)
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