After the discussion on a requirement for updating county websites, we need to vote on the issue. The proposed new requirement for the MTGenWeb Project is: All MTGenWeb county websites must be updated at least once every 6 months and must have the last update date on the website. Please vote yes or no on this proposed requirement. Just hit reply so that your votes are posted on the mail list. The voting will begin at noon today, June 13, 2014 and will continue for 14 days (through noon June 27, 2014). Shirley

I vote yes on the requirement. Alicia Littlejohn On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> wrote: > After the discussion on a requirement for updating county websites, we need > to vote on the issue. > > The proposed new requirement for the MTGenWeb Project is: > > All MTGenWeb county websites must be updated at least once every 6 months > and must have the last update date on the website. > > Please vote yes or no on this proposed requirement. Just hit reply so that > your votes are posted on the mail list. > > The voting will begin at noon today, June 13, 2014 and will continue for 14 > days (through noon June 27, 2014). > > Shirley > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

I have been asked how I vote so for the record, I vote yes. <g> Shirley On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> wrote: > After the discussion on a requirement for updating county websites, we > need to vote on the issue. > > The proposed new requirement for the MTGenWeb Project is: > > All MTGenWeb county websites must be updated at least once every 6 > months and must have the last update date on the website. > > Please vote yes or no on this proposed requirement. Just hit reply so that > your votes are posted on the mail list. > > The voting will begin at noon today, June 13, 2014 and will continue for > 14 days (through noon June 27, 2014). > > Shirley > > > > > > >

I vote no on the 6 months requirement. Nancy Teton County Reason: While I believe that our polices should have an update requirement, I believe 6 months is too high a goal, especially after viewing a sample of our websites today. One county hasn't seen any work in nine years, and even our state page has bad links and out of date info. So once a year is better, I think. Added to that, we don't have a penalty for not checking for bad links, except maybe nagging. What good is that? The other option is to put that site in a fishbowl, point out the problems. Do we want the trouble of getting the password and taking over the site? I urge our discussion to focus on a formal way of pointing out the bad links and urging the webmasters to fix them, the goal being "current" rather than "new stuff". This is genealogy, after all.

Shirley is out of pocket right now and doesn't have email and ask me to send this out. Due to Rootsweb being down, the voting is extented until Monday, June 30 MIDNIGHT..... Jane Keppler On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> wrote: > After the discussion on a requirement for updating county websites, we need > to vote on the issue. > > The proposed new requirement for the MTGenWeb Project is: > > All MTGenWeb county websites must be updated at least once every 6 months > and must have the last update date on the website. > > Please vote yes or no on this proposed requirement. Just hit reply so that > your votes are posted on the mail list. > > The voting will begin at noon today, June 13, 2014 and will continue for 14 > days (through noon June 27, 2014). > > Shirley > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love. ~ 1 Corinthians 16:13-14, NLT