[Imc-web] Books to Prisoners & ucimc.org site (fwd)

[Zachary C. Miller]

Someone who actually knows something about UC-IMC's web policy and
about editting UC-IMC's code needs to do this. I'd rather not do it
given that BtP isn't a working group but just a project of a working
group. Since we have dozens or hundreds of UC-IMC projects I'd rather
not be the gatekeeper for what is allowed and what isn't allowed to be
linked on our front page.

I'm not saying it is a bad idea to link BtP. I am just saying that I'm
not involved enough with the UC-IMC to feel comfortable editting the
main page. That's a job for the web group (or if they can't get it
together, I can do it if Steering directs me to). The people with the
permissions to make the change are:

wolfgang,molly,abhalla,scumbag,bobcook,chyn,mink,eknutson,peterm,brandon,mikepery,sbassett,lewart,cpopetz,ecain,sascha,ursis,mfeltes,jason,bmbyrne,pmking,joe,zcmshows,faith,michelle,anne,dugon,sooz

Many of those people are only on the list because they (at least at
one time) were webmasters for some working group's website. Not all of
these people are actually qualified or authorized to edit the UC-IMC
main page, these are just the people who happen to have the access in
our fairly trusting system.

I have not purged old accounts so if there's anyone on that list that
people know for sure should be removed because they are no longer
active please let me know.

Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
> zach, can you do this?  if not, who? - danielle
> 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:28:08 -0500
> > From: Jay Schubert <jay.schubert at gmail.com>
> > To: imc-web at ucimc.org
> > Cc: Sandra Ahten <spiritofsandra at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [Imc-web] Books to Prisoners & ucimc.org site
> > 
> > To whom it may concern,
> > 
> > I am a member of UC Books to Prisoners and administrator of 
> > books2prisoner.org <http://books2prisoner.org> (a.k.a. 
> > bookstoprisoners.ucimc.org <http://bookstoprisoners.ucimc.org>). We are a 
> > project of the library working group, though lately have been the only 
> > functional library project (though this will hopefully change soon). 
> > 
> > Due to the fact that Books to Prisoners has become a very active and visible 
> > group (with more than 10 core members who meet every week!), and that we 
> > have begun several outreach programs which attract new people to the IMC, we 
> > would like to have our own link on UCIMC.org (next to library). Currently 
> > the only way for people to find info on BTP via ucimc.org
> > <http://ucimc.org>is by way of the link burried 2/3 of the way down
> > the (outdated) library
> > page.
> > 
> > Can we please add the link "Books to Prisoners" to the top navigation on 
> > UCIMC.org, which points to http://www.books2prisoners.org ?
> > 
> > btw - I would also be willing to take responsibility for administration of 
> > the library page and hopefully orienting and then passing the task-off to a 
> > dedicated librarian, as soon as we find one. I would just need the FTP 
> > details.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Jay Schubert
> 

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