Re: Website maintainer?

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@east.sun.com>]

At 05:10 PM 1/26/01 -0800, Jeff Hodges wrote:
>Can we point to some existing pages as models for what we're imagining?
>
>How about these..
>
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/registryandrepositorycommittee.shtml
>
>..as models?
>
>What is the minimum page layout complexity? (I personally don't think we need
>anything fancy at all to accomplish our work, and that these pages shouldn't
>have a "marketing" requirement on them. See
>http://www.stanford.edu/~hodges/LDUP/ for an example of what I'm imagining 
>as a
>very-bare-bones-yet-useful working group page.
>http://www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwfi/aaaarch/ is an example of something a bit more
>"fancy" but still pretty low-key, to the point, and probably not terribly
>complex to maintain.)

My opinion: Very simple.  This is for information transfer, to the public 
as well as for our own use.

>Where will the SSTC site/pages be hosted? At www.oasis-open.org like the 
>above TCs?

Yes.  We get this "free" for having a TC.

>How many "cooks" will be trying to stir this broth? How much time is the
>maintainer going to have to spend consensus-building and hand-holding? 
>Will the maintainer be expected to create any and all pages on request? If 
>so, by whom?

I would suggest that the overall maintainer create/maintain only the pages 
that apply to the whole TC; they can create a sub-area for each subgroup, 
within which that subgroup can do whatever they want.  We just need to FTP 
some pages into place.

> > - Occasionally creating new pages (e.g., technical/PR contact lists)
>
>What's "occasionally"? How many updates & new pages per week (let's say)?

I would say: In the first month, ten pages with significant content.  After 
that, maybe one a week.  Updates to keep the links fresh probably every week.

Time required in the first month: maybe 4 hrs/wk.  After that: maybe 1 hr/wk.

> > Optional:
> > - Neat-o "look" for the site
>
>Who decides what constitutes a "neat-o look"?
>Models?
>   http://www.s2ml.org/    ?
>   http://www.authxml.org/ ?
>
>How much work is it to maintain pages like these? I.e. how much work is it to
>add new subpages and update navigation bars appropriately?

I was thinking of the W3C DOM Group site (W3C member only), which has a 
"weasel" as a logo! :-)

> > - Very active maintenance of content and layout
>
>What constitutes "very active"? How many updates & new pages per week (let's
>say)?

If someone likes generating web pages with a custom tool for no good 
reason, or likes to "style" web pages, I don't necessarily want to stand in 
their way.  But I just want a functional, accurate site; plainness is not a 
negative and I don't need dynamic content or anything.  The DocBook site is 
nice (and I happen to know it's generated from XML); if someone wants the 
tools to do this, I can point them in the right direction.

         Eve
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