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Hi Everyone. My thinking was to move the WebCorps info up to the
Services page and offer it as a Chebucto service. There's nothing in the
info Mark has online that needs replacing as far as I can tell, but we
should flesh it out more and gear it more towards the consumer. Chebucto
may want to invest in some more advanced webmaking software at some point
(I'm mostly thinking Macromedia Flash here), but it isn't necessary just
yet.
The biggest things I want to discuss are rates (development and
maintenance), CCN/volunteer split of fees, and what services we can pull
out of thin air now and what else we can offer later. We can then put up
an á là carte price list of our web-authoring services. On the Chebucto
side, I'd like to see this develop into a mentoring program with a
rotation of experienced webhands teaching less experienced ones, but
suspect that this will have to develop over time. Other practical aspects
would be a service contract (someone must have something similar we can,
um, borrow from) and someone to oversee the work (most likely Muggins
here, at least to start).
I'd see this running out of the office ("Your One Stop Shop") for
the time being. Comments, questions?
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Mark Rushton wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Just want to be sure that what we present to our user-base is
> consistent. A couple of months ago I circulated to the Volunteers
> list (and I believe the Editors list, CCN-IP, and possibly Board) the
> draft of the WebCorps concept for comment (little or none received,
> as I recall). Taking no comment as approval, that draft went "live"
> and is available at:
>
> <http://chebucto.ns.ca/Chebucto/Volunteers/WebCorps.shtml>
>
>
> This is part of what's on the Volunteer Cttee website right now
> (introductory narrative deleted):
>
> -------------------
> The WebCorps service will be fee-based. Before we talk about the
> amount, let's talk about what WebCorps will deliver:
>
> - the programme is not intended to provide a full-blown webpage
> development service full of Java, Flash, etc. the idea is to
> renovate in a rapid and efficient fashion the information which an
> organization has published online.
> -one way to do this is to use a pre-designed template into which
> WebCorps volunteers could copy-and-paste information from the
> organization, and rapidly post online.
> -once the initial job is done, (and there must be a clear indication
> of at what point the WebCorps task finishes), the organization may
> then decide to contract the same or other WebCorps volunteer to
> further develop the site.
> - however, the idea is to promote capacity-building. As the WebCorps
> volunteer builds that first rapid renovation, the organization must
> be encouraged to dig up an internal person to undertake training for
> their site maintenance. Think of WebCorps as a little push to get
> them moving.
> -a fee of $100 has been suggested as acceptable for the first
> renovation effort. Subsequent work by a WebCorps person with an
> organization is left up to them to negotiate.
> ------------------
>
> If this will be different from the approach you are taking, Andrew,
> then we should modify either what is online for WebCorps promotion,
> or your approach will need to take the above into consideration.
>
> comments?
>
> Mark
> --
> ----------------------------------------
> Mark Rushton, Editor
> Community Support & Development
> Chebucto Community Network (CCN)
> <Mark@chebucto.ns.ca>
> <http://www.chebucto.ns.ca>
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