Tea Website Administrator Skills

Notes regarding a successor

Background:

There are three parts to the TEA website admin task:

• maintain the teaseattle.org domain
• maintain the www.teaseattle.org website
• work with the provider

Requirements:

To maintain the site and email functions without change,
the successful candidate will need to have knowledge of --

• Bulk Emailing
• Scripting/programming languages:
  
  
  
  • Python
    
  • Rebol
    

• file formats:
  
  
  
  • HTML
    
  • DOC
    
  • RTF
  
  
• Internet Protocols:
  
  
  
  • HTTP
    
  • FTP
    
  • SSH
    
  
  

To Change:

To revamp the website and email functions to suit the 21st
Century, the successful candidate will have to consider better
ways of constructing the site. For example ...

For the website:

Blog-like software for the website:

• http://teaseattle.blogspot.com/
• http://bloggo.teaseattle.org/

For the emails, either --

• Bulk email or newsgroup providers
  
  • - or -
    
• New Python, Perl or PHP/SQL scripts to replace the Rebol engine currently in use

Comments:

Editions of the TEA times are sent as HTML for these reasons:

Many people do not bother to open emails with attachments; many people find plain text unprofessional, or too hideous to look at, or both; and email attachments are, quite simply, Evil.

Following this, there are two aspects to each TEA times publication:

• convert a Microsoft Word document into (unstyled) HTML for the bulk email, the website home page, and the TEA times archives
• send the email using non-County resources

Note: I consider it essential that emails do not display
the names of anyone other than the individual recipient
in the "To:" line of the header.