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From: Larry Flesher <>
Subject: Re: [ABChat] Official Report of the Webmaster Study Group
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <4901D919.3000605@saintclair.org>


If the requirement is "from 8 to 24 hours", let's say: approximately 8 to 24 hours

Larry


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Mike St. Clair/ST <> wrote:

> From: Mike St. Clair/ST <>
> Subject: Re: [ABChat] Official Report of the Webmaster Study Group
> To:
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 9:18 AM
> 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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