HTML Team Meeting Minutes - 02/23/95

Attendees

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Old Business

1. Status of Current HTML Assignments

   • Transfort (Roger May): Transfort is ready to go online as soon as the paperwork is sorted out and they have and account. Future plans are to have a server at Transfort with an in-house staffer to do HTMLs.

   • Water Department (Howie Grapek): Made a presentation at Water Department with Scott Harder. They all said "Cool," but there is still quite a bit of speculation concerning what they actually want to do on line. They are talking about putting their annual Water Festival on line.

   • Light and Power Department (Howie Grapek): Light and Power enthusiastic and are still trying to determine what they want to do.

   • Poudre Valley Hospital (on hold): PVH is still involved in a major internal committee discussion.

   • The Coloradoan proposal has been submitted to the publisher.

2. Prodigy does provide a very poor version of a Netscape browser. We are still having some problems with our DOS/Windows install disks. We as volunteers need address this issue to help get people up on line. NOTE: You have to turn off the Windows accelerators if you are using WINTERM.EXE to access the system via Lynx.

3. Greg Luse: There are serious bugs in Mosaic versions 8 and 9. Mosaic version 7 appears to be fine (2.0 a7.1)

4. Howie Grapek: It might be reasonable to create a HTML group login to handle FortNet internal documentation. We will go ahead and do this tonight or tommorrow morning. We need to open access to more people to make minor changes and do updates to existing information rather than processing it all through the Webmasters. There will be some sort of revision control system put in place. As part of updating the help pages we need to add pointers to tools.

5. Roger May: MicroSoft has released a version of Internet Assistant for Word 6.0.

6. Howie: There are style sheets and converters for AMI Pro, Word, WordPerfect, etc. We need to get these on line. We need to create a newsgroup called Fortnet.binary and a directory under /pub to handle pointers to off-site versions. We have a lot of discussion that is going to start happening in this area.

7. ONLINE NOW

   • In News there is FortNet.HTML newsgroup.

   • HOW TO GET ON THE HTML MAILING LIST
     1. Send email to html-request@linden.fortnet.org
     2. Include the following as the message body of that email:

        SUBSCRIBE

        END

   • Windows news viewer: ftp://ftp.fortnet.org/pub/windows/slip/news/winvn926.zip

8. We raised the issue of whether or not the City has an account and a place to put the City's information. We considered the notion of setting up a directory for the city while we are waiting for the city to complete legal agreements and tabled it until we can get a clearer reading from the Board. Howie Grapek volunteered to pursue this issue.

9. The todo [file] exists and an ongoing todo list will probably happen before the weekend.

10. Where are we on Quality Assurance Group?
    • We have a preliminary standard linked off of Lisa Beal's home page http://www.fortnet.org/~lbeal/ Lisa wants eMail on the standard by Wednesday March 1. Both comments on standards and information provider agreements are welcome.
    • Discussion of the sole provider clause (paragraph 4) of present agreement. We are not getting back much in the way of agreements. Again this is a Board issue. Among others, Transfort has been at the lawyers for at least three weeks now.
    • The scanner (HP Scan Jet 2CX) is now operational and the OCR is functional. 7 point to 14 point type seems to convert cleanly from copy up to legal size. Copy to be scanned should be in crisp clean print-- second generation photocopies are a problem. Anyone who needs scanning or OCR done can contact Roger May in order to get time on the scanner.

New Business

1. No New HTML Assignments were issued

2. Lisa Beal and Roger May will put together a FAQ for the windows news viewer.

3. Lisa Beal is working on a PPP login script. To set up a PPP account you still have to request an additional account from Aaron.

4. Please note any modifications that you have made to make commercial InterNet in-a-can setups function with FortNet.

5. There are now 48 members listed in the HTML group.

6. The standards guide will be up on-line soon. Howie promises a flood of e-mail in the next few days.

Presentation

CGI Programming (Howie Grapek)

The remainder of the meeting was a basic class on CGI programming using as an example an automated script to take air quality data transmitted from a remote site in ASCII text and generate an HTML document from it. The long term intent of the project is to provide this data online in a timely fashion.

Next HTML Meeting Scheduled:

720 North Wood Street
Fort Collins, CO 80521
03/09/95, 7 pm

Thank you Womcat for the minutes, good work!