[Wylug-admin] Getting next Monday's talk on the blog

[Dave Fisher]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:09:23PM +0100, Louisa Parry wrote:
> I like the idea of a talk to show everyone it's business as usual.
> James' idea about Hardy Heron on the EeePC sounds good if he can get it
> organised in time - I was going to suggest a short "what's new in
> Hardy?" talk but that sounds better since it's more specific.
> 
> James - you ok to go with that?  If so, I'll get the details on the blog
> so we can start promoting it.

I was planning to do a new Advanced CSS talk: 

  "How IE Screws Everything Up and What You Can Do About It"

Having seen the previous comments about Geekup, that might be a more
appropriate forum, but if you want a full agenda, I can do this talk at
virually no notice (just enough time to get slides onto the correct USB
stick).

Dave

> And on a related note: from past experience, it seems like messages to
> the announce list need to be authorised before they're sent out - who
> can do this?  Anyone on the admin list or just specific people?  If it's
> the latter, would be great to open it up a bit more widely to at least
> some of us admin-newbies.

From memory, Nigel and Smylers are two (of possibly 3) moderators.

While I'd be happy to open it up a bit, I don't think that unmoderated
posting to announce should be open to a large number of people.

Aside from the obvious (and less important) issue of spammy misposts,
the fundamental problem with sharing responsibilities is that people
hope (and sometimes expect) that someone else will do the boring and
onerous bits of work.

Personally, I think only one person plus a reserve should be responsible
for posting meeting announcements.  If neither of these people is
available, they should always be able to get a moderator to pass
through a specific message from a designated substitute.

Dave