HTML Committee Minutes

Status of Assignments

• Poudre Valley Hospital - Mary Ellen Buning met with PVH staff, they need to meet internally, review the legal agreement and determine what information they want to target and how they want to proceed. Conversion of their "Health Aware" bulletin is on hold.

• Tourist Bureau - a button for this information will be added to FortNet's top level menu by combining news and weather and freeing up a button. Scott Bayes and Lisa Beal continue to work on building the content and acquiring photos. Other volunteers and ideas are welcome.

• 4-H Club - this information will be converted by Karen Holman as part of her effort to train the Larimer County Extension Staff.

• Transfort - development of web pages for Transfort showing bus routes superimposed on a City map is restarting. Lisa Beal presented a concept to Transfort management (which they liked) and will implement it. John Payne will assist.

New Assignments

• Grizzley Creek Trading Company - Greg Luse will OCR their flyer and begin to create an html page for this small business. Info provider packet is in their hands

• Natural Resources - City Natural Resources Department would like to post daily air quality measurements. Howie Grapek will use this request for creating a CGI script to change data daily as a teaching topic for next week's html meeting.

• Boy Scout Troop 97 and Rotary - Bill Emslie would like to get information about putting both these organization on FortNet. Mary Ellen Buning will contact him regarding becoming information provider. Lisa Beal will look into finding URLs for national webpages for both Boy Scouts and Rotary.

Old Assignments

• Garrett Burton - The February "Scene" music calendar

• Julie Evans - The Lincoln Center's "Marquee" publication/calendar.

• Howie Grapek -online form for volunteering for the City's Water Meter Program

• Brett Holm- Helpline pages.

• Greg Luse- CityLine directory page

Issues Discussed

• Community Information Provider Packets were handed out to all in attendance. They can be photocopied and distributed further. Legal agreements need to be signed *before* information is included in the web. Information carrying over from the Pilot *need* new legal agreements signed. Agreements are slow coming in at present. If legal agreements do not begin to come in soon, a policy regarding removing information from the web will be developed and implemented.

• Howie will create an FTP directory called "html/todo" to receive uploaded ascii text and GIF files that need to be converted to html. Volunteers will enter their name as they take the assignment. A "Readme" should accompany each file/task to give the html volunteer instructions about the document.

• Online application for community information providers - This will speed up the process of making community organizations and businesses aware of the process for getting information on FortNet. Even "guests" will be able to see this information. A button called "Sign Up" at the bottom of FortNet pages will be redesigned so that it allows both sign up for a FortNet subscription application to be a community information provider. Howie will develop a form to allow "on line" application which when completed will be sent to an email address called "provider@linden.fortnet.org." This Community Information Provider sign up section will include procedures, directions for locating html development tools, and templates for FortNet web documents.

• Revision of Web page documents Documents - In order to relieve the logjam created when "webmasters only" have access to correcting and updating documents the current policy was described. HTML documents need to be created by individuals who are FortNet subscribers with full internet access. An organization or business may do this themselves or they may find/hire a sponsor. Community information providers or their sponsors need to have the ability to create html documents to FortNet specifications and the ability to place them within their directory within their allotted disk storage space on the FortNet server. The html documents will reside in the subscriber's/sponsor's directory so that revisions and updates can take place whenever needed. Newcommunity information that does not have a link from the FortNet web server should be placed in the subscribers directory and announced should be announced via email sent to the webmaster requesting that a link be placed on the appropriate FortNet menus.

• All FortNet community information providers will need to have full internet accounts or have a sponsor who does.

• Legal Agreements with City Departments - FortNet completed html conversion of many pieces of city information under the service agreement that comprised the pilot. The pilot was completed on Dec. 31, 1994. There is a new service agreement being developed for 1995 but it will not provide blanket coverage for information from all city departments.

• Page of the Day - a discussion arose about using this as a way to draw attention to new html documents. The "What's New on FortNet" button tends to do this at the present but this may be a good idea for the future.

• FortNet.HTML News Group to be created - a local news group to discuss the html process will be created after the meeting. A group called "html.flame..." will also be added. This will allow the html discussion to be open to all on FortNet who are interested. The html listserve will be used for announcements, agendas, minutes, etc.

• Emergency Medical Services Statewide homepage - Mary Ellen asked if anyone knew people in the local emergency medical services community who would be interested in developing local web pages that could link to a Colorado EMS webpage. Ethan Gannet of LCSAR will be contacted for a possible name.

Submitted:

Mary Ellen Buning