"Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@gmail.com> wrote: From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@gmail.com> To: <usgenweb-all@rootsweb.com>, <usgenweb-discuss@rootsweb.com>, <board@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:02:49 -0500 Subject: [USGENWEB-DISCUSS] Announcement: USGenWeb Project sites hosted on TGN/RW ("RootsWeb") Please forward to all USGenWeb Project lists. --- To All USGenWeb Project members who host sites on TGN/RW ("RootsWeb"): TGN/RW ("RootsWeb") has implemented a policy change in which banners are to be placed on all TGN/RW hosted websites. The USGenWeb Advisory Board contacted RootsWeb in regard to their plan to install banners on their webspace and have negotiated a banner specific to The USGenWeb Project that will be placed on the national pages of The USGenWeb Project. While these negotiations were ongoing, TGN/RW postponed applying the banners to sites of the USGenWeb Project to work on the concept of USGenWeb having a custom banner. The banner that we have negotiated identifies the USGenWeb Project as being hosted by RootsWeb and RootsWeb as a community of The Generation Network. The banners are viewable here: http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default1.jpg [default one] http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default2.jpg [default two] http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default3.jpg [default three] http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/custom.jpg [custom to USGenWeb Project] RootsWeb intends to begin the placement of the banners beginning on or about March 15, 2008. The generic/freepages banner will be included on the server side [TGN/RW], and will not require any involvement from the webmasters. Any USGenWeb Project site that wishes to have the USGenWeb Project specific banner instead of the generic/freepages banner will be supplied with code to insert on their pages in order to cause that banner to show up when their pages are viewed. The line of code they will provide us is not a replacement banner. It will simply include a parameter on the page that the server can read when rendering the banner that will tell it to render the customized USGenWeb [Project] banner instead of the default one. The Board has made it very clear to TGN/RW that they should be the ones to implement the custom banner on Project pages. TGN/RW understands how editing each individual page could be a concern for account holders with a large number of pages. Most solutions they have looked at for doing this involve significant initial or ongoing development or operations work, but they are still brainstorming to try and find a good solution. They will get back to the Advisory Board this week after they have been able to investigate further. The Advisory Board has strived to maintain a balance of TGN/RW business needs as our host, while being mindful of the Project's paramount mission and goal to provide free genealogical data to our visitors and the USGenWeb Project community as stated in our bylaws. As National Coordinator, I want to thank all involved for their patience and input as we have worked to achieve this balance. In tandem with this, and perhaps more importantly, the Advisory Board is discussing a hosting agreement with TGN/RW. While that hosting agreement is confidential in nature, due to business concerns of our host, the Board is working to insure that the work of our many volunteers and contributors is protected. We welcome any of your questions/concerns as we all work together to finalize this negotiation process. Tina Vickery National Coordinator USGenWeb Project ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to USGENWEB-DISCUSS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message