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From: "Mike St. Clair/ST" <>
Subject: Re: [ABChat] Official Report of the Webmaster Study Group
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:18:01 -0600
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Based on input since the draft was released, I'm willing to consider
tweaking this section. I've heard everything from "no way can you
expect a volunteer to commit 24 hours every month" to "unneeded - just
say they must be willing to do what it takes"

I believe the group wanted to give some number to help the webmaster
candidates determine if this "job" can fit the amount of time they are
willing and able to give. It's not that we intend to have them punch
the clock and fire them if they don't spend their 24 hours. We want
responsiveness to needed changes, not just hours spent. Perhaps it
would work to have something that says the candidates can expect to
devote from 8 to 24 hours per month handling the required duties. I'd
be interested in any other suggestions on this one.

Mike

Concetta Phillipps wrote:
> Actually, I believe its supposed to be 3 working days, not one actual day.
> When Phyllis did the original proposal, we had imagined that there would
> be some time each month where the webmaster would have things to do as a
> minimum - posting things, checking logs, tweaking and correcting. We picked
> 24 hours so that the webmaster could choose to do things all in one actual
> day, broken over working days of 8 hours each, or most ideally, six
> four-hour blocks. That way, the webmaster would have time to do their own
> work as well as ours.
>
> Concetta
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Mike St. Clair/ST <>wrote:
>
>
>> My answers in stream. Any other members of the WSG should feel free to
>> answer as well.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Gail Kilgore wrote:
>>
>>> (c) The individual must be able to devote a total of at least 24
>>> hours per month to their duties as webmaster, spread out across the
>>>
>> month.
>>
>>> Mike, where did you come up with 24 hours and why just that amount of
>>>
>> time
>>
>>> in a month?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It's my understanding that this was somewhat a translation of something
>> in past webmaster calls, which said "one day a month" and knowing that
>> webmasters aren't typically allowed any sleep it became 24 hours. I've
>> gotten feedback along the way that this was both over kill and not as
>> much time as it would really take.
>>
>> I suspect that when major redesigns of the site took place, the time
>> spent well exceeded 24 hours, but that when things are running smoothly
>> thats plenty. I think the purpose of including some number here was to
>> ensure that potential webmasters knew they might sometime have to spend
>> that much time so applicants wouldn't step forward if they had very
>> limited time available for extra service to the project.
>>
>> Do you have any feelings about whether this should be a larger or
>> smaller number?

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