<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-702bd560-0466-8499-6933-81174aa0ac0a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At the last web meeting I volunteered to start brainstorming an organizational scheme to the website. As I promised this isn’t a proposal but hopefully a launching point for discussion. I’ve been looking at both the old and new site and obviously the Evergreen site has more evolved than been designed. (No intelligent design jokes please.) I waited to send something until the new site was out because I thought that would be less confusing. But thanks to Ben’s hard work that’s where we are now. </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There has been an effort in the past to blend the web site and the wiki together and I think everyone doing that were too good at the task and it caused occasional confusion and issues. And I think as we talk about content we have to talk about the WIKI as well as the web site and having editors who review and solicit content for both where appropriate.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This may not even be the type of approach we want to take but we have to start the discussion somewhere. So, proposals for editorial roles based on content and organization:</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Editor in Chief - Depending upon the number of volunteers involved on the site this person may or may not also be the managing editor. This person needs to liaison with the Oversight Board to make sure the site reflects the community appropriately and things are properly coordinated.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Managing Editor - On a newspaper the managing editor actually makes sure the paper gets out every day. In our capacity the managing editor needs to be a bit like a release manager - they are making sure that the editors are doing their jobs and greasing the wheels. Furthermore they are ultimately responsible for layout, making sure things are logically organized, looking at usability issues, and that some static content gets updated appropriately for the mailing lists, IRC information, etc….</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">News Editor - This person would be in charge of the blog, soliciting content and making sure that outside sources are linked to or highlighted correctly. I had to think about the newsletter when thinking about this role and realized I don’t see it archived here. This person would handle most timely things including the calendar. </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Section Editors - These would need to do more of the macro (content) and micro editing (punctuation, speling, grammar). Each of these would be responsible to breaking out content on the web site and WIKI and working with the managing editor to make sure it’s accessible in a reasonable way and organized as intuitively as possible.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Possible sections: </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Documentation (self explanatory)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Advocacy (about us, FAQs, installation maps, this is an area I think we could do more in as the oversight board has discussed over the last 8 months or so). Heck, I’d like to see things like sections “Evergreen for Public Libraries”, “Evergreen for Academic Libraries”, “Evergreen Success Stories”, etc… I could easily see this becoming several sub sections.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Code - There is a big need to have a technical presence on the blog, especially reviewing code related sections of the WIKI. This includes much of the contribution section though I’d like to see language changed since contribution can be in technical tasks, advocacy, documentation, etc…. This person should also maintain the download page. This could probably be broken up into several sub sections. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Above I listed the communication channels as static pages that the managing editor maintains but I could see that being more active and being it’s own section with issues brought up in IRC and email lists archived with detailed FAQs, folks being welcomed on the listserves, etc…. Some of the ideas brought up with tutorials to Google Hangout would dovetail very well into this.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA</div>
<div>Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, </div><div>York County Library System</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis" style="color:rgb(102,102,0);text-decoration:initial;font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">C.S. Lewis</a></div>
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