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The Electronic Communications Technical Committee started off 1999 on a somewhat sluggish note. The number of updates to the Artemis Project web site returned to a more normal level this month, however. The new Team Director product managing the ASI membership database got a major workout in January when the ECTC began using it in initial trials. The commercial release of TeamWSD Lite, the software that maintains the private directories on the Artemis Project web site, was completed in January and installed on the site. And David Lundeen completed the ADB Outline project.
The new weekly IRC "Open Forum" discussions with Greg Bennett got off to a good start in January, with five such meetings now held to date. These discussions take place every Saturday afternoon at 4:00 PM Central Time. Greg and other ASI members will try to be on the #artemis channel on irc.superlink.net at that time to discuss the Artemis Project with anyone who visits. If you would like to join in the discussions, just stop by the IRC server on Saturday afternoons.
The ECTC grew by two members in January, with the addition of Jim Sealy Jr. and Karim Sharif. The total membership in the ECTC will shrink by over half in February, however, as the new ASI membership requirement is put in place and managed by Team Director. Barring any last minute membership signups, the ECTC will include 39 members in February, down from a high of 82 members. During the past month, however, 10 ECTC members have joined ASI or renewed their ASI membership to remain in the ECTC, bringing much needed funds to ASI. Starting in February the ASI membership requirement will begin to be implemented in the other ASI technical committees and project teams, so if you are not currently an ASI member, now is the time to join or renew your membership!
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:
Several news articles were posted to the ASI Online News section of the Artemis Project web site in January. Mark Sumner is continuing to collect 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".
After several months of beta testing on the Artemis Project web site, the TeamWSD Lite product was commercially released in the middle of January. TeamWSD Lite manages the private directories on the web site and provides a central administration interface for all of the private directories.
David Lundeen completed his ADB outline generator program in January. The program went through several updates last month as Greg Bennett and John Wertz provided feedback on the formatting and content of the pages generated by the program. In early February the program will be set up on the Artemis Project web site and configured to run automatically every night to update the ADB outline web pages.
The January ECTC IRC meeting was another effective meeting, with a lot of progress made on key projects. A total of 8 people showed up for some or all of the meeting. The first hour of the meeting was devoted to getting everyone up to speed on the new Team Director software, as meeting attendees tried out the system for the first time. During the rest of the meeting the key topics discussed included the new ADB outline pages, the Web Site Tour, and several of the Web Team projects. A lengthy discussion took place on updates to the web site index templates proposed by John Wertz.
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