[ANSTHRLD] Website functionality

[Kathleen O'Brien]

FYI, the ILoIs used to be in a searchable format as separate files.  I 
believe that one of the reasons they were changed was because of 
problems with webcrawlers grabbing email addresses out of them and 
auto-mailing them.  Something to remember as we go forward

Another issue, in addition to the private commentary issue, is that 
older ILoIs had lots of contact information in them.  So, that's 
something to think about how to handle.

What would be simplest would be a password protected area where we can 
put the older stuff behind and not have to filter it.  CoH members would 
have passwords and could access the unedited files.

This is what we ended up doing with the old LoIs and LoCs for the CoA. 
They are uploaded into OSCAR (well, as I progress through scanning the 
great heaping piles of LoIs and LoCs) and anyone with commenter access 
in OSCAR can read them.  The reasoning behind that is that the original 
audience for these was the CoA mailing list, and that function is 
handled currently via OSCAR CoA level commenter rights.

If we're interested, it may be worth checking with Istvan to see if the 
kingdom garden functionality could be applied to a file upload area for 
each kingdom - where commenters for the kingdom could access the 
uploaded files.  Something to think about anyway.  That would allow us 
to maintain one set of account permissions and the files would be 
included in the OSCAR backup.

Mari


On 5/30/2012 7:53 PM, Andrewe Bawldwyn wrote:
> At the moment, such an effort (single PDF of all ILoIs) would be
> hampered by an incomplete online archive of ILoIs. However, efforts
> are underway to complete an archive of ILoIs, once I get the paper in
> my possession to be scanned, and we figure out how to handle private
> commentary. Once this is all worked out and a complete archive is
> available, a single PDF file would not be a bad idea, in my opinion.
>
> Andrewe
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Doug Bell<magnus77840 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> For OSCAR I keep track of the kingdom deadlines manually in a file.
>>
>> There are some PDF utilities under Linux which combine and convert the files into various formats. I need to try some of those. If all of the pdf letters were combined into a single file it should be able to be loaded and searched.
>>
>> Magnus
>>
>> --- On Wed, 5/30/12, Alasdair MacEogan<alasdair at bmhanson.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> From: Alasdair MacEogan<alasdair at bmhanson.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Website functionality
>>> To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc."<heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
>>> Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 6:35 AM
>>> That is a very good point.
>>> OSCAR should help going forward, but it
>>> would be nice to see if we could come up with for the older
>>> stuff.  I
>>> have had the same issue as you, but I just don't hit it as
>>> often to feel
>>> your level of pain on it.
>>>
>>> Can't help you with OSCAR though. :-D  That was one of
>>> the nice things
>>> about ACE.
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