February 1996 ECTC Status Report
After getting off to a busy start in January, the Artemis
Electronic Communications Technical
Committee lost some momentum in February. Many of
the ECTC tasks saw little or no progress during the last month, as you'll
see from the details. Much of the ECTC "slowdown" was caused by delays in
moving the asi.org and tlrc.com domains to a new ISP, as many of the ECTC
tasks are on hold until the move occurs. Although we had hoped to have
more news about the move by this time, there has been progress in that area
and we should have a more informative update in a week or two.
This past month we welcomed three new members of the ECTC, Doug Budzak,
Russ Myrick, and Joseph Strout. Doug is updating the "Things You Can Do"
web pages, Russ is tackling the
ASI Site Design
document, and Joe is
setting up the "What's going on in ASI" web pages. Despite the growing
number of ECTC members, there is still far more work that needs to be done
than we have people, so we are still looking for additional ECTC members.
Check out the
ECTC task list
on the ASI web site and sign up for anything
that interests you. Feel free to sign up for tasks that already have
people working on them, many of the ECTC members are extremely busy and can
always use help.
Even if you don't feel qualified to join the ECTC (and the only
qualifications are enthusiasm and a willingness to learn!), all of you can
help out the ECTC by providing information about the Artemis Project. We
are especially looking for submissions of design notes, plans, drawings,
ideas, and anything else that can be put on the ASI web server and shared
with the rest of the Artemis Society. You don't need to know HTML to
contribute to the web site, simply send documents in any format to the ASI
web team at
asi-web@asi.org
and they'll figure out what to do with them.
We also need submissions for the "What's going on in ASI" service, which
will post current activities and events on the ASI web site and send
updates to other interested parties, such as the sci.space newsgroups. If
you have any "news" that should be published in the "What's going on in
ASI" service, send it to
whatsnew@asi.org.
And now, here is the latest status information from the individual work
areas within the ECTC:
Help Desk
Nanci Brasket answered numerous questions directed to the Comm and Info
Center.
Listserver Mailing Lists
A new mailing list,
asi-org-local,
was created to support the local
Artemis chapters. Randall Severy wrote the first draft of the
"Electronic
Communication Procedure Guide for Artemis Technical Committees", which
provides a set of instructions for setting up and using the different parts
of the ASI electronic communications infrastructure. The draft document
can be found on the ASI web site from a link in the
ECTC task list. The
master list
of mailing lists was updated with several additional planned
mailing lists. Randall Severy completed the
review of mailing list server
software (the review can be found on the ASI web site from a link in the
ECTC task list),
which concludes that the Unix ListProc software would be
the best package to use for the Artemis mailing lists.
World Wide Web Server
Russ Myrick took on the daunting task of organizing and updating the
ASI Internet Site Design
document.
Numerous additions to the ASI web site
were made this past month, with a variety of new ADB pages contributed by
Simon Rowland. Nanci Brasket started compiling a list of ASI web pages and
began the difficult task of tracking down who is responsible for each page.
WWW Conversation Pages
No progress to report this month.
Usenet newsgroups
No progress to report this month.
On-line services
The Artemis presence on GEnie took a major hit with the recent major
change in pricing under GEnie's new ownership. Greg Bennett and several
other Artemis members decided GEnie's new pricing was too much now that the
Artemis Project has essentially moved to the Internet and have cancelled
their GEnie accounts. Attempts are being made to work out an arrangement
with GEnie's new owners to keep the official Artemis account active on
GEnie so that the Artemis presence can continue. On CompuServe, Vik
Olliver recently received information on starting a new forum for the
Artemis Project. On MSN, a request to add an Artemis icon to the Astronomy
and Space Forum was denied. Efforts are underway to identify what options
exist for an Artemis presence on MSN.
Bulletin Boards
No progress to report this month.
Real-time Meetings
No progress to report this month.
Miscellaneous
Joe Strout put together a first draft of a "What's going on in ASI" web
page, but is still waiting for submissions to put on the page. He sent an
initial request for contributions to the artemis-list mailing list, but the
responses were underwhelming (Come on, folks, doesn't *anyone* have any
news to report?).
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