- Issue: Link from RootsWeb to The USGenWeb Project
national website.
- Date: 3 Dec 1998
- Motion #98-9: Due to a number of requests by County
Coordinators, I move that we, as the National Advisory Board,
request and approve of RootsWeb placing a link from the main
RootsWeb web page toThe USGenWeb Project main page.
- Motion by: Beth Wills
- Second by: Bridgett Smith
- Votes:
- Bamford, Bob - Present
- Cisewski, Virginia "Ginger" - Aye
- Craven, Jan - Aye
- Davis, Terry - Aye
- Heidel, Kathy Welch - Aye
- Holt, Trey - Aye
- James-Henderson, Yvonne - Aye
- Mason, Kay - Aye
- Mills, Betsy - Aye
- Myers, Kim - Aye
- Reid, Pam - Aye
- Smith, Bridgett - Aye
- Timm, Holly - Aye
- Wafford, Debbie -
- Wills, Beth - Aye
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- Issue: Offer from System Integrators, Inc.
- Date: 13 December 1998
- Motion #98-10: I move that the attached letter from
Toby White-Beebe of System Integrators Inc. be forwarded to The
USGenWeb Archives Project. The Archives Project shall be authorized
to establish a dialog with the said company for the purposes
of determining what value would exist from a possible agreement
with the said company. Any agreements shall be subject to approval
by The USGenWeb Advisory Board. The Board representative from
the Archives project shall from time to time provide updates
to the Board on the progress of any discussions.
- 30 November 1998
- U.S.GenWeb Project
Interim National Coordinator
Mr. Bob Bamford
- Dear Sir,
I am writing you on behalf of a Company that I work in an attempt
to
establish communication and get the initial "ball rolling".
Though I do not
have authority to speak for the Company, I have talked to the
CEO of the
Company and he is very interested in hearing more on what I have
proposed.
The Corporation, System Integrators, Inc., has been in business
for 25 years
now and has been a top level producer of Publishing Software
for the
International Magazine and Newspaper publishing industries. In
its early
years, System Integrators, Inc. produced terminals and connective
software
to Mainframe Computers. More recently, as the personal computers
became
more prevalent, System Integrators, Inc. provided emulation boards
to
connect PC's to the Tandem Mainframes. Ever changing with today's
technologies, System Integrators, Inc. continues to lead the
marketplace in
software and it's connectivity to mainframes.
What I had proposed to my CEO, Mr. Frank Washington, was to find
out whether
we, as the software writers, had the ability to turn on some
type of switch
that would allow our customers to be able to "forward"
their daily
obituaries to your project's archives ? We already produce the
software
that our customers use to create their obituary columns, why
can't we keep
all future typing to a minimum ? I know that the volunteers that
are typing
past documents are extremely overworked and if there is a way
to "keep up"
with today, why not ? My continued thoughts would be that on
a daily or
weekly basis, our customers could compile their data, push their
button and
forward the data on to a central receiving point designated by
GenWeb for
final archiving ?
Right now, the thoughts are rough, the intent and benefits are
long lasting.
I would continue to assume, that as the individual transcribers
receive
"posting" credits for their work, so could the "donating"
newspaper or
agency receive the same byline(s) ? System Integrators, Inc.
would only be
receiving compensatory compensation from it's customers for the
added
feature(s) provided by this ability vs. sharing a byline by donation.
My question(s) to you are;
1. In what form would the U.S.GenWeb Project prefer to receive
the daily or
weekly information ? After researching the Idaho records this
morning on
the FTP site, even the Census has been transcribed into ASCII
text ?
2. Presuming that down the road, that "this" project
were in test phases,
would it be better to FTP the information to a receiving site
for further
processing ? or directly into it's final resting grounds ?
3. We also provide a format for the industry using Adobe's PDF
( Portable
Document Format ) which carries all of the pictures, text and
fonts as a
single document. It is fully searchable and can be modified,
if so need be.
Would this be a better option ?
I am quite sure that there are many more details to work out
before we can
get this project going ? I will be stepping out of the picture
as things
progress, as relaying information between sources has a tendency
to fall
apart if not monitored properly and this is not part of the scope
for the
department I do work in. I hope that my insight into the needs
of GenWeb
and my insight into my Company's abilities can work out a mutually
beneficial partnership.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Toby White-Beebe
Network/System Specialist
SYSTEM INTEGRATORS, INC.
1300 National Drive
Sacramento, CA 95834
(916) 929-9481 ext. 3432
Business Email ; whitebeebe@sii.com
Business Website ; http://www.sii.com
Personal Email ; twbeebe@2xtreme.net
Cc: Julia M Case, Editor RootsWeb Review
- Motion by: Trey Holt
- Second by: Yvonne James-Henderson
- Votes:
- Bamford, Bob - Present
- Cisewski, Virginia "Ginger" - Aye
- Craven, Jan - Nay
- Davis, Terry - Aye
- Heidel, Kathy Welch - Aye
- Holt, Trey - Aye
- James-Henderson, Yvonne - Aye
- Mason, Kay - Aye
- Mills, Betsy - Aye
- Myers, Kim - Aye
- Reid, Pam - Aye
- Smith, Bridgett - Aye
- Wills, Beth - Aye
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- Issue: Resignation of Debbie Wafford, NW/Plains CC
Rep
- Date: 10 Dec 1998
- Motion #98-11: I move to accept Debbie Wafford's resignation
and to include the Northwest/Plains CC Rep. position in the upcoming
election.
- Motion by: Ginger Cisewski
- Second by: Kay Mason
- Votes:
- Bamford, Bob - Present
- Cisewski, Virginia "Ginger" - Aye
- Craven, Jan - Aye
- Davis, Terry - Aye
- Heidel, Kathy Welch - Aye
- Holt, Trey - Aye
- James-Henderson, Yvonne - Aye
- Mason, Kay - Aye
- Mills, Betsy - Aye
- Myers, Kim - Aye
- Reid, Pam - Aye
- Smith, Bridgett - Aye
- Timm, Holly - Aye
- Wills, Beth - Aye
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- Issue: Resignation of Holly Timm, Se/Mid-Atlantic
CC Rep
- Date: 15 Dec 1998
- Motion #98-12: I move that we accept Holly Timm's
resignation from SE/Mid-Atlantic CC Rep, with regrets, and that
we add her position to the upcoming election for replacement.
- Motion by: Kay Mason
- Second by: Trey Holt
- Votes:
- Bamford, Bob - Present
- Cisewski, Virginia "Ginger" - Aye
- Craven, Jan - Aye
- Davis, Terry - Aye
- Heidel, Kathy Welch - Aye
- Holt, Trey - Aye
- James-Henderson, Yvonne - Aye
- Mason, Kay - Aye
- Mills, Betsy - Aye
- Myers, Kim - Aye
- Reid, Pam - Aye
- Smith, Bridgett - Aye
- Wills, Beth - Aye
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