[Businessmtg] Website Review - Jerry

[List Administrator]

Biz-Pals,

I think it's important to note that ASP once had its website content 
approved by a Group Conscience. During the initial website redesign 
phase a few years ago some of our text content was altered in ways which 
did not comport with that group conscience (GC) - some significant 
things were changed without GC approval. We had to return to the 
approved text. Keeping the new design and the old text content was not a 
simple cut and paste job. The older website was in one format and the 
new design was in another. This created some major problems which needed 
someone who had the computer skills, patience, and knowledge of our 
group's Founding Statement, Policies, and practices to carry out the 
site's rebuild.

This Business Meeting (BM) is being asked to put its stamp of approval 
on the work done to accomplish this. The only way I can think of to 
convince BM members to okay this work is to state that some degree of 
trust needs to be put in the BM members who have been around ASP from 
the earliest days - those who have the "institutional memory" to confirm 
the accuracy of the good work that has been done. I'm not choosing to 
name the person we enlisted to do this work; they may wish to hold onto 
as much anonymity as they can. I can tell you with full confidence that 
this person has been around from the earliest days, is very familiar 
with all things ASP, has no motive other than ASP's well-being, is one 
of the few to have the skills and knowledge to have been able to 
accomplish this task for the group, and has my complete trust. I am very 
grateful.

With the website text content now returned to its formerly approved 
state we need also be concerned about the necessity of keeping future 
unapproved changes from ever happening again. In order to assure this I 
think ASP needs to be specific about its process for site content 
changes. So-called "housekeeping" changes can certainly be made without 
BM approval (office holder names, typos, updates, etc.), but changes 
which make any structural changes or changes to our Policies and 
Practices must first pass through the Steering Committee and to the 
Business Meeting for consideration using ASP's Group Conscience process.

I am in favor of approving our website content as it is now posted. Any 
details which may require edits con be handled using open discussions 
and decisions. By approving it as it now stands we all begin on a new 
page with an updated Group Conscience and we can move on in unity.

I hope we can get to this stage in the next couple of weeks by arriving 
at a motion we can all support.

In service,
Jerry H.
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The first thing I want to say is that I did not do the wonderful work 
which has returned our website content to its group-conscience-approved 
state. Steve, our founder, graciously agreed to do the grunt work which 
accomplished this.