Happy New Year everyone! I hope all Guild members have had an enjpoyable Christmas. You may remember an idea that was discussed in this Forum last July under the subject header "Preserving your one-name study." This is now developing into a viable project called the Members' Websites Project. The Project Team believes that it is a ground-breaking project for the Guild and goes to the heart of our constitutional objectives "to advance the education of the public in one-name studies..." and "to promote the preservation and publication of the resultant data, and to maximize its accessibility to interested members of the public." The Project will allow participants, while they remain members of the Guild, to maintain and edit their one-name study websites as if they were on a normal web hosting facility. After a participating member has died or ceased to be a member of the Guild their website will continue indefinitely as a publicly accessible website. After approval in principle in September, the Guild Committee gave its full support for the team's plans in November. Proof of concept has been carried out for a number of different types of web site from simple free-standing web pages to those using modern genealogy software like TNG (The Next Generation). We are now looking for members who have one-name study websites using online software like WordPress or MediaWiki who would be willing to join the pilot project. If you can help with this, please contact the Project Team Leader, Mike Spathaky at <members-websites@one-name.org> as soon as possible. Later this year, when the current pilot has been completed and the infrastructure thoroughly tested, the Members' Websites team will invite Guild members to join a Trial Project so that they may create a website or copy an existing site to the new facility. The team will offer guidance through the setting-up phase. For further details please see the Project website at http://www.one-name.net. Best Wishes, Mike Spathaky (Team Leader) W Paul Featherstone Jim Benedict Christopher Gray Marie Byatt Debbie Kennett Paul Millington Members' Websites Project Team

Hi Mike As one of the Guild members keen to see this progress being made, I cannot contribute at this stage because you specifically ask for " members who have one-name study websites using online software like WordPress or MediaWiki " Unfortunately I use neither of these, and did it the "hard way" using Incomedia Website X5 version 8 software to set up my main website. The tribal pages is a separate database of names and basic information. I am however looking forward to your advice following on from the trial period. Essentially if the whole set of images and data on my main website have to be revamped I am willing to do that. Though I hope it does not come to that. In the end it is the preservation of the material that is most important. Rennison Rennison's List on http://www.upperdalesfhg.org.uk/rennisons.htm The Vayro Ancestry on http://www.vayro.name Vayro Database on http://vayro.tribalpages.com Vayro Guild of One-Name Studies Profile http://one-name.org/name_profile/vayro/ http://www.rennisonprimarydesigntechnology.info Searching for VAYRO, VARO, VARAH and variations worldwide On Thursday, 1 January 2015, 11:07, Mike Spathaky via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > >Happy New Year everyone! > >I hope all Guild members have had an enjpoyable Christmas. > >You may remember an idea that was discussed in this Forum last July >under the subject header "Preserving your one-name study." This is >now developing into a viable project called the Members' Websites >Project. The Project Team believes that it is a ground-breaking >project for the Guild and goes to the heart of our constitutional >objectives "to advance the education of the public in one-name >studies..." and "to promote the preservation and publication of the >resultant data, and to maximize its accessibility to interested >members of the public." > >The Project will allow participants, while they remain members of the >Guild, to maintain and edit their one-name study websites as if they >were on a normal web hosting facility. After a participating member >has died or ceased to be a member of the Guild their website will >continue indefinitely as a publicly accessible website. > >After approval in principle in September, the Guild Committee gave >its full support for the team's plans in November. Proof of concept >has been carried out for a number of different types of web site from >simple free-standing web pages to those using modern genealogy >software like TNG (The Next Generation). We are now looking for >members who have one-name study websites using online software like >WordPress or MediaWiki who would be willing to join the pilot >project. If you can help with this, please contact the Project Team >Leader, Mike Spathaky at <members-websites@one-name.org> as soon as possible. > >Later this year, when the current pilot has been completed and the >infrastructure thoroughly tested, the Members' Websites team will >invite Guild members to join a Trial Project so that they may create >a website or copy an existing site to the new facility. The team will >offer guidance through the setting-up phase. For further details >please see the Project website at http://www.one-name.net. > >Best Wishes, > >Mike Spathaky (Team Leader) >W Paul Featherstone >Jim Benedict >Christopher Gray >Marie Byatt >Debbie Kennett >Paul Millington > >Members' Websites Project Team > >_____________________________________________ > >RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

This is really exciting Mike. As someone with no website for my ONS, I’m eagerly awaiting the outcome of your trial. Fiona Tipple — 5538 - Duignan & variants On 1 Jan 2015, at 11:02, Mike Spathaky via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Happy New Year everyone! > > > Later this year, when the current pilot has been completed and the > infrastructure thoroughly tested, the Members' Websites team will > invite Guild members to join a Trial Project so that they may create > a website or copy an existing site to the new facility. The team will > offer guidance through the setting-up phase. For further details > please see the Project website at http://www.one-name.net. > > Best Wishes, > > Mike Spathaky (Team Leader) > W Paul Featherstone > Jim Benedict > Christopher Gray > Marie Byatt > Debbie Kennett > Paul Millington > > Members' Websites Project Team > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message