[web-team] kluft

[Heather Stern]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:20:05PM -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> Mark Weisler wrote:
> > On Friday 02 November 2007 17:13:17 Paul Reiber wrote:
> >> Ian Kluft has asked to have his name removed from http://svlug.org
> >>
> >> Please accomodate his request - the main page mentions him twice,
> >> and I'd recommend using 'grep' to ensure he's not mentioned elsewhere
> >> either.
> >>
> >> Thanks... sorry to have to ask for things like this...
> >> -Paul
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> web-team at lists.svlug.org
> >> http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/web-team
> > I'm OK with cleaning up the Web site so that events no longer current are 
> > deleted, along with the names of people facilitating those events as 
> > mentioned in those event announcements. But I'm not in favor of editing our 
> > pages in a way such as to rewrite history.
> > 
> > Ian Kluft did a lot of good work for SVLUG (and other technology interest 
> > groups). Unless there was something really wrong with the way his name was 
> > used when he was affiliated with SVLUG, I don't think his name should be 
> > removed from historical documents.
> > 
> > My perspective on this is mine and I believe it should be checked with active 
> > participants in SVLUG as to concenus opinion on how to handle matters such as 
> > this one.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I concur with Mark. We should not be rewriting
> history. If there is a misspelling or a correction
> to make, that would be one thing. I do not agree
> nor do I consense to erase someone's contribution to
> and participation with svlug.
> 
> Darlene Wallach

I do not believe the intent here was to write him out of the history entirely 
(and, in fact, he didn't request that).   I believe the intent was to sweep
through making sure that nothing else implies that his participation is
active and current, because it's not.

The "Web Team" page actually says we should expire current meetings out of
webfetch on the next day, so that the item disappears at midnight whilst a
batch of us are enjoying the afterdinner.

Other people who were once extremely active and are no longer directly
involved should, in my opinion, also be granted the same grace, now that
we're paying attention.

The other thing we should do is come up with some more juicy items that
*are* current for the visible main section.  Those I think we should get
from the members at large anyway.  There's lots of active people; we just
have to get them to write up their cool things.   Ergo the desire for the 
moin wiki :)

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