Information Management Task Force -- 1995 Annual Report ======================================================= Mandate and/or reason for being formed -------------------------------------- To support staff and Information Providers by providing set-up, check out and support of NCF and Information Provider menus, pages and information. To provide on-line support of Information Providers via keeping the instructional documents, as provided by staff, up to date and answering questions in the IP forum. To Keep a list of volunteers who care for service and primary menus whether labeled xx000 or with an individual membership ID and to encourage and nurture volunteers outside of the IMT to participate in the care and parenting of menus on NCF. The Task Force was formed for two reasons: 1) due the departure of Al Seaman, the IPand SIG administrator a number of people were required to fill his position 2) there are a staggering number of menus on FreeNet, and someone needs to be actively looking for problems and fixing them Members ------- Front end IP contact: - bc574 Mike Anderson (May - August) - bw306 S.C. Alder (September onwards) SIG Administrators: - xx102 Stephen Toy (May - November 28) - xx717 Miranda Gray (November 28 onwards) Menu Administrators: - xx673 Matthew Darwin (May onwards) - xx995 Pat Drummond (May onwards) IP Administrators: - xx821 Mike Jankulak (May - November) - xx995 Pat Drummond (November - December) IP Administrator in training: - xx515 Don McCallum (December 11 onwards) Contact information ------------------- You can find the Task Force at "go info-management". Reports of what we do can be found in "ncf.status.info-management" and discussions in "ncf.sub.info-management". We also have a number of mailing aliases: - ip@freenet.carleton.ca IP Administrator - sig@freenet.carleton.ca SIG Administrator - menu@freenet.carleton.ca Menu Administrators - xx000@freenet.carleton.ca Menu Administrator(s) Processes used for carrying out duties -------------------------------------- The Task Force does not have physical meetings, but we do send a lot of e-mail back and forth. Major changes are discussed in "ncf.sub.info-management". Reports of changes, mailouts, setups, removals, and anything else that is relavent are posted to "ncf.status.info-management promptly. Overview of 1995 activity ------------------------- The record of what we have done this year can be found in "ncf.status.info-management". Here is a brief summary: - update all SIGs with new news/no news indicators - At least 20 Information Area ownership changes - At least 9 Information Area removals - At least 9 Information Area moves - Mailout to IMs with Menus without titles: - 10 mailouts - mailed 50 unique IMs - 1016 problem menus (some may be counted twice or more if the IM didn't fix it from the previous mailout) - Created an operations database - Created menus for many operational groups - many, many cleanups, fixes, additions and removal of menu pointers Statistics ---------- - 215 new newsgroups created 2 ncf.admin.* 11 ncf.agm95.* 8 ncf.ca.* 2 ncf.environment.* 1 ncf.fan.* 2 ncf.francais.* 46 ncf.government.* 3 ncf.help.* 1 ncf.medias.* 3 ncf.newspaper.* 24 ncf.orgs.* 5 ncf.prof-assoc.* 14 ncf.schools.* 1 ncf.set.* 67 ncf.sigs.* 1 ncf.sports.* 3 ncf.ss.* 5 ncf.status.* 12 ncf.sub.* 4 ncf.test.* - 74 newsgroups removed 1 ncf.admin.* 10 ncf.ca.* 3 ncf.environment.* 1 ncf.fan.* 10 ncf.government.* 2 ncf.help.* 2 ncf.newspaper.* 1 ncf.orgs.* 2 ncf.prof-assoc.* 4 ncf.schools.* 11 ncf.set.* 12 ncf.sigs.* 1 ncf.sports.* 2 ncf.ss.* 3 ncf.status.* 8 ncf.sub.* 1 ncf.test.* - 667 ncf.* newsgroups available 9 ncf.admin.* 25 ncf.agm.* 11 ncf.agm95.* 1 ncf.announce.* 3 ncf.board* 43 ncf.ca.* 16 ncf.environment.* 2 ncf.federal-election.* 3 ncf.francais.* 1 ncf.general.* 71 ncf.government.* 5 ncf.help.* 5 ncf.library.* 1 ncf.medias.* 23 ncf.newspaper.* 23 ncf.orgs.* 20 ncf.prof-assoc.* 31 ncf.schools.* 1 ncf.set.* 313 ncf.sigs.* 25 ncf.ss.* 5 ncf.status.* 27 ncf.sub.* 3 ncf.test.* - 2888 menus on the system 97 acadone/* 76 admin/* 28 cc/* 223 community.associations/* 21 config/* 61 fr/* 217 freenet/* 753 government/* 76 help/* 23 libraries/* 94 newspaper/* 165 orgs/* 44 prof.assoc/* 7 public/* 110 schools/* 5 search/* 3 set/* 585 sigs/* 297 social.services/* 5 using/* Topics from ncf.status.info-management: From 1: Monday August 21, 1995 To 220: Friday January 12, 1996 Topic Heading Count Remarks ADD: 40 Add a menu or sub-menu or file CHANGE: 20 Change a menu CLEANUP: 13 Tidy up a menu/sub-menu set DELETED: 1 Newsgroup - see removal EDIT: 2 Edit a file/document FIX: 9 Fix a menu/sub-menu or entry MAILOUT: 4 Send out a batch mailing to IP/IMs MOVE: 10 Move a menu structure NCFCHOWN: 11 Change an IM OTHER: 5 PUBLIC: 12 Move an IP from testmenu to Public Structure REMOVAL: 9 Remove an IP from Public Structure REMOVE TEST IP: 3 Remove an IP from testmenu Structure RENAME: 1 SETUP: 37 Add a new IP to the testmenu structure SPLIT: 2 Split ownership of an existing structure STATUS: 2 Any status report UPDATE: 16 1996 goals and objectives ------------------------- - continue cleanup of menu structure - removal of old information from the system - removal Information Managers from SHELL - help with development of - a WWW Style guide for Information Managers - a directory structure naming plan - a newsgroup naming plan - bring French Service menus up to par with English menus.