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February turned out to be a transition month for the Electronic Communications Committee, reflecting a month of changes throughout Artemis Society International. The new ASI membership requirement changed the ECTC significantly, as the committee was converted into a lean and mean group of 40 members. The Team Director product managing the ASI membership database went through several updates as it began to expand beyond the ECTC and manage other ASI technical committees and project teams. Although the major events going on elsewhere in ASI this past month monopolized the time of many of the ECTC members, it still was a productive month for the ECTC.
The weekly IRC "Open Forum" discussions with Greg Bennett continued to grow in popularity each week during February, culminating in Greg's ground-breaking "State of the Artemis Project" speech on February 27. If you would like to join in those discussions, just stop by the #artemis channel on irc.superlink.net on any Saturday afternoon at 4:00 PM Central Time.
After the initial overhaul of the ECTC membership at the beginning of February, the number of ECTC members remained unchanged for the rest of the month. Greg Lynn joined the committee and Paul Blase left the committee during the past month. You can find the complete ECTC membership listing at http://www.asi.org/adb/09/01/ectc.html . As always, there is still a lot of room for new volunteers for ECTC tasks. If you would like to join the ECTC and help with any of those tasks, you can use the form on the ECTC task list page at http://www.asi.org/adb/09/01/ectc_tasks.html .
Here is the latest status information from the individual work areas
within the ECTC:
Mark Sumner wrote several news articles for the ASI Online News section of the Artemis Project web site in February and several other news articles were posted during the month by other ASI members. Mark Sumner is continuing to collect additional news articles for the ASI Online News pages and a periodic ASI Newsletter. If you have any news items to submit, please send them to Mark at "newsmonger@asi.org".
February was also a busy month for list maintenance activities, as the migration of ASI mailing lists into Team Director increased dramatically. Six mailing lists were reconfigured to be managed by Team Director during February. Bobby Will set up a brand new mailing list, asi-outreach, for the new Outreach Committee. Bobby also updated several ASI mailing lists with new owners and changed the configuration on another list.
David Lundeen's new ADB outline generator program was set up in early February to run automatically every night to update the ADB outline web pages. Jim Sealy Jr and Greg Bennett set up an archive directory on the Artemis Project web site for Dale Gray's Frontier Status Reports and developed a format for the archive. Candace Bartleson began working with Dale Gray to get his reports into the archive.
The February ECTC IRC meeting turned into a marathon meeting, lasting over four hours, but resulted in a lot of progress in many areas. A total of ten people showed up for some or all of the meeting. Some of the key topics discussed during the meeting were Team Director, the new ADB outline pages, the Web Site Tour, Search Engine registrations, ASI Site Design, and several of the Web Team projects.
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