Thread Subject: Re: TEITAC committee participants - Editing Wiki

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From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Wed, Oct 11 2006 10:50 PM

I'm not sure what is being referred to where but.



My memory is that



- We decided that the subcommittees were open to all.

- We also decided that subcommittees would determine their own
operating principles

- If a subcommittee decided that only the chairs or only an editor
would enter data in the WIKI that would be within what we said.

- If a subcommittee including ALL members (whether on TEITAC or
not) decided to limit access to wiki in some other way that also would seem
to be within jurisdiction.

- I believe that we did conclude that the WIKIs had to be open for
all to READ. Even those not on the committees. Part of open process.
Tim or Dave Capozzi could confirm.



I think that having anyone in the world editing on the wiki is a bad idea.
But that is up to each subcommittee I believe, unless it would violate some
rule that the Access board needs to follow or impose.



With regard to CART. My memory is that we said all meetings had to be
accessible. We didn't say they all had to be recorded - in audio or in
text. So I don't know where we are on that. Maybe back to 'the committees
decide'.





Does this help?


Gregg

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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Jessica M. Brodey
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:55 PM
To: 'TEITAC Communications Task Force'
Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] TEITAC committee participants - Editing Wiki

Again, I was not necessarily expressing an opinion of how I thought it
should be, but this issue was discussed and previously decided at large by
consensus. For those who do not remember, once the CART transcripts are
available we can go back through the notes as a reference. There may be
other notes/minutes available at this time.



If it is technically not possible to do, then we need to go back to the
larger committee and revisit this issue, with an explanation and a
recommendation. At the time of discussing membership to subcommittees, the
decision was made that Subcommittee membership was open to all for phone
calls and participation, but that the ability to edit the wikis should be
subject to registering with the Subcommittee chairs - that it should require
an additional level of self-identification. If this is not feasible or is
no longer the position of the Committee, that is fine, but it is something
we are currently directed to do, and I do not think we can merely disregard
it without going back to the Committee with an explanation.



Jessica




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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Bailey Bruce
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:58 PM
To: TEITAC Communications Task Force
Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] TEITAC committee participants - Editing Wiki



I am not trying to usurp anything. If the subcommittees are open to all, is
not the wiki by definition open to all? Should Jared set up eight more
distribution lists? I think that adds a needless level of complication.
One cannot edit the wiki without registering for the wiki. Should perhaps
registration to the wiki be limited only people who have subscribed to one
of the lists? Jared, is such a thing reasonably easy to programmatically
enforce?



Also Jared, please add a link to the directions for subscribing:

http://teitac.org/wiki/Email_lists#Subcommittee_Mailing_Lists

>From the to mail archive page:

http://list.teitac.org/mailman/listinfo/

and the archives

http://teitac.org/mailarchives/






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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Jessica M. Brodey
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:08 PM
To: 'TEITAC Communications Task Force'
Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] TEITAC committee participants - Editing Wiki

At the meeting, I believe the decision of the group (by consensus) was that
the subcommittee meetings/calls should be open to all, but that the wiki was
supposed to only be open for editing to subcommittee members. Anyone can be
a subcommittee member, but it requires declaring yourself as a member. The
purpose of this is to prevent random people, lurkers, or those who have not
declared from stepping in and editing the wiki.



Since it was a decision of the TEITAC by consensus, I'm not sure it is up to
us to revisit this decision as part of the task force - it would be
something that could be raised and re-discussed at the next meeting.




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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] TEITAC committee participants - Editing Wiki



Aside from maintaining balance, per the protocols, I am afraid I do not
understand the need, at this time at least, of locking down the subcommittee
membership roles nor the wiki. I guess that is up to each subcommittee.




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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Jessica M. Brodey
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:48 PM
To: 'TEITAC Communications Task Force'
Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] TEITAC committee participants - Editing Wiki

Is there a mechanism to limit editing of the wiki to the official
subcommittee members as we had previously discussed?




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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Gregg
Vanderheiden
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:01 PM
To: 'TEITAC Communications Task Force'; 'Deborah Buck'
Cc: 'Baquis David'
Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] TEITAC committee participants



I think we said that people should send an email to convenor or chairs if
they want to be on the committee. The maillist is broader I think.



Periodically we can remind people (via the list) that if they aren't on the
Workpage list for the committee members and would like to be official
members - so send a note to the chairs.

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