A few recent notes:

Mar 19, 2000

   The new Web site is up, this evening. There are still a few
   areas that need links to existing pages, and some stupid
   mistakes and typos, etc. But it's up. -Rod

Mar 2, 2000

   A new WebIMAP app is working fairly well in testing. It won't
   display more than 60 messages per folder, which is either a
   beta version bug (in which case install the latest stable
   version over it) or because it's unregistered (in which case
   do that).

   Brian High has got PHP and MySQL working further. Peter
   Graham has made some new user registration and IP and other
   forms, that can use PHP to write database files.

   Brian is also doing Web Admin more generally. This is very
   gratifying, especially because of the conscientious way it's
   being done.

   Lots of stuff, mostly good stuff, is on the suggest page
   lately.

   The latest changes in the site redesign are coming along well
   enough, with some Perl scripts to propagate various detailed
   design changes through the existing menus and files. This is
   still a lot of work, and is still taking longer than
   expected, so we're probably still a few days away from it.

   Randy Groves is installing Apache 1.3.12, and will install a
   second identical server as a testbed for new modules and so
   on.

   Weekly stats for week ending Feb 14 are approx:
      118,256  page views
       23,232  unique subdomain names (somehost.domain.com)
           87  countries

   Ops is looking at getting LynxSSL set up, so that text-only
   users can connect to secure sites.

   Ops has experimentally compiled w3m, a text browser that can
   display frames and tables, and can connect to secure sites.

Dec 8, 1999

   The MySQL database engine has been up for a few weeks and
   seems to be working well. PHP3 is installed and working. Both
   of these are thanks to Steve Guest and Cere Davis. The IMAP
   Web-based mail programs that they've tried so far aren't
   quite it, but there are a couple of others that might be
   better.

Nov 13, 1999
   Suggestions for additions to the menus are logged on 
   http://www.scn.org/whatsnew/suggest.html.   

   Seattle Sites of the Week has been up for one year.
   How can we improve this?

Oct 28, 1999
   A form for Operations (Hardware/Software) volunteers to sign
   up on is at http://www.scn.org/volunteers/ops-volquest.html.

   The Webmasters committee will meet on Wednesday, November 3
   from 7:00 - 9:00 PM at the STAR Center, at 2121 26th Ave. S
   in Seattle. It's a new computer lab for blind and disabled
   people, in a SHA building between 25th and Martin Luther King
   Way. Everyone is welcome.

Aug 4, 1999
   Nan recently put up a general introduction to volunteering in
   the Seattle area. See the Volunteers section under Community
   on the test site at http://www.scn.org/test/.

   Barb updated the test site's e-mail training page.

   Rod redesigned the buttons, graphics, message list layout and
   some other parts of the user interface for Web Mail.

   We don't yet have a Web mail program for IMAP mail, but are
   looking into a couple of them. (If you use the IMAP server,
   remember that retrieving mail with it, e.g. from your Pine
   folders, doesn't set the SMTP send timer. So you'll still
   have to check your mail via POP before sending mail.)

July 21, 1999
   Web Mail now lets people check their mail on any POP server
      on the Net. Expiring pages on the server is now optional. 
      This lets people avoid the irritating Data Missing
      messages, if they aren't worried about pages being cached.

   Major Cool now asks for more information about lists to be
      created (subscription policy, moderation), and sends it to
      majoromo-owner.

   People have commented on the test site redesign, and the
      redesign has been further redesigned accordingly. It now
      uses Apache's "virtual include" feature to include the
      same header file on all the pages, and to include a footer
      (right hand navigation column) that's the same for each
      area of the site.

   A new form for volunteer task definitions is up (not publicly
      linked, I think). It uses some newer features of the forms
      processor, that now have some documentation.

June 3, 1999
   Latest version of site redesign. A few sample pages are up, at 
        http://www.scn.org/test/

May 6, 1999
   Automatic generation of a sample home page for Information
      Providers, from the fields filled out on the IP signup
      form. Mailed to whoever filled out the form. - Rod, May 5

   Seattle Sites of the Week notes asking for recommendations
      are on the motd and in SCN webmasters newsgroup and
      scn.general. - Rod, May 5 99

   Major Cool now sends an explanatory note to people who press
     the Create button, that the mailing list administrator will
     set up the list.  (The current setup script needs to be run
     as root). - Rod, May 4 99

April 14, 99
   Web-based Major Cool interface to mailing lists
      publicly available for list subscribers to use - Rod 

   SCN Mailing Lists
      updated April 14 99

   How to Contribute to SCN
      Gianni wrote a new set of pages, up April 13 99

   People Menu
     Burke Dykes volunteered to edit this, will start in
     mid-April

   Web Server Upgrade
      Chanh installed 1.3.6 on HSW site - April 11 1999

Pending Items -

Content:
***Events Calendar
** Find Web researchers to keep up with topical local material
** Find ways to keep all the topic sections more current
*  Each section should be a good local guide to for its subject
*  Involve wider range of knowledgeable people in each section
*  Help Docs
*  Seattle Sites of the Week
*  Members Pages menu briefly describes each listed site's content
*  What's New
   SCN FAQ update
   SCN Public Access page update
   Public Access Internet Locations in King and Pierce Counties
   SCNA Pages updates
   Info about setting up PCs to work in foreign languages

Design:
** Web Site Redesign
*  More photos, more art   

People:
***Recruit more topic editors
** Recruit some Web researchers
*  Recruit Web programmers, people to install/configure SW
   Recruit HTML page builders/maintainers
   Write job descriptions for topic editors
   Write job descriptions for webmaster
   Recruit artists

User Software/Utilities:
***Web-Based E-mail, IMAP compatible
***FTP for all users (Ops)
** Post to news server, or readnews Web-based Usenet reader
** Personal pages Web-based page editing CGI script
** Online User Registration
*  Web-Based discussion forums (MHonArc partially does this)
*  Secure Lynx browser
   Local Search Engine

Information Provider Software/Utilities:
** Separate machine for Web server
** Secure Web Server, for Web mail
*  Monthly Access Log Statistics for IPs
*  Let IPs write their form data to files (PHP?)
   logtail.cgi - display more useful info, use older logs if needed

Volunteer Software/Utilities:
** Online Meetings / Online Voting (the software works but is clunky)
*  Online Volunteer Hours Form (this is up, but is little used)

Updated March 21, 2000 - webmaster@scn.org