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Website Report, September 2004

 

Recent work on the website has been almost entirely in the background.  The pages comprising the website itself are being slowly changed so that they are based on templates and style sheets, with graphics consistent across the entire document set.  This will make updating and expansion much easier in the future.

 

A new communications server has been put online and information about this will be sent out via email in the very near future.  All of our internal email lists have been consolidated and draw their email addresses from our database.  It will be essential for each person to have a username and password.  You will be able to set your user preferences and you will be able to update your own address information.  This system will help improve security and reduce the possiblities of spam or viruses getting propagated through our services.  It will also provide a searchable archive of all correspondence on our internal email lists including attachments.

 

As we get this system stabilized the database will be used to control access to additional documents which are now on the public website.  Our internal administrative documents will be moved to this server and made available to you through your logon id.  Many of our historic documents and our growing archive will be moved to this server and made available to members only.

 

I will be asking Bob Bruyn to have the Membership Committee consider a category of membership which consists only of a registration on the website. 

 

Our technical foundation has been upgraded.  Our severs now are running hard drives in a raid configuration which provides constant backups.  These servers are also behind hardware firewalls for further security.

 

An online registration form for IC05 is nearly complete.  With this we will move into the area of having a secure server operational for financial transactions.  Registrants will be able to pay for their registration online with a secure credit card transaction.  This will open the way for online contributions and other financial transactions.  Prior to making the IC05 registration page public I would like to notify the socadmin list and encourage subscribers to register so that we can have a further level of testing before we go public.

 

At present we are serving between 1200 and 1500 individual users every twenty four hours on the English website and between 1800 and 2000 users on the Spanish site.  Over the next few months the Spanish site will undergo significant revisions as a great deal of Spanish language material has become available in the past few months.  In addition, the past year has seen a quantum leap in the mobilization of services for Spanish readers on the part of Latin American leadership.

 

In addition to the website, the new communications server will host a Spanish language chat server to be used by Latin American readers.  Chat is used fairly extensively among the Spanish readership for low-cost administrative communications as well as for carrying on discussions about the book with interested persons.  It is hoped that the Fellowship hosted chat service will facilitate this process.

 

Audio files -- primarily the Bill Sadler talks -- have proven quite popular on the website and steps are being taken to improve the quality of our audio services.  In addition, experimentation has begun with video clips.  This has led to the possibilities of producing DVDs containing conference talks and presentations out of our historic archive.  Initial work is being done on materials for Spanish readers as these folks make much more use of these media resources than is the case in north America.

 

I would like to recognize the contributions of both Larry Watkins and Richard Omura in the continuing maintenance and development of the website.  Larry has recently moved to the Denver area strengthening the ability of some of the primary website workers to work more closely together.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

David Kantor