Hi Kerry Thanks for that info. I have to admit I haven't had much of a look at it as yet - I found it while doing a Google search for things about the Queanbeyan Museum (yes, I have plenty of that now!). I think I will take your advice and contact them, even though I was not necessarily going to add anything of my own to the site (that would probably depend on that great commodity, time!). Thanks Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Raymond" <kerry.raymond@gmail.com> To: <aus-qld-brisbane@rootsweb.com>; <AUS-QLD-BRISBANE-L@rootsweb.com>; <AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-L@rootsweb.com>; <AUS-NSW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD-BRISBANE] People's Voice website > >> I found an interesting website this evening - one I've never heard of >> before and that may be of interest to some of us genies. >> It's called "People's Voice", subtitled "Australian Community History >> Online". It says "Discover our communities' stories" - self explanatory. >> The address is:- >> >> http://peoplesvoice.gov.au/menuf.html - go to the About page for more >> details. >> >> If you click on a state (on the map) it shows a list of towns, some of >> which have links to info (community stories). It looks like they don't >> have a real lot of info on it as yet - perhaps some of us will be able to >> assist?? > > Hmm, it looks like a dead/dormant project to me. It appears to be a > Centenary of Federation project (i.e. 2000). Most of the content seems to > have appeared around 2001. The latest News item mentions a book launch on > Wed 19 March. The last time 19 March was a Wednesday was in 2003. Lots of > pages (now in 2006) are still under development, suggesting not much has > happened since. > > It's clearly a professionally developed site, which suggests to me that > its > development probably stopped when the funding finished. It looks like > someone had a good idea, but didn't really think through how to develop it > in a scalable sustainable way. > > So, I'd contact them and check if they are still working on the site > before > sitting down and preparing material for them. > > Kerry > > > > > Queensland Dead Persons Society > Toowoomba www.audps.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-QLD-BRISBANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >