World Wide Web Steering Committee

Action Items

1. Personal homepage authorization procedures
   It was proposed that all faculty, staff, and students be given a template homepage as the default instead of having to apply for a page. Current practice requires that people apply and sign a form. Proposed practice would mean publishing and linking our policies wherever possible and giving everyone a web directory and template page. We should also publish and link web publishing guidelines and how-tos in a convenient place online. We recommended this change in procedures: web directories and template pages will be created for everyone by default, but to appear on the list of web pages, people will still have to rename their web pages welcome.html.

2. Modification of web policy

We discussed a draft of a revised web policy. We sent the copyright issue back to the drawing board, but approved the addition of this commercial activity clause: "Promotion of Lawrence University products and services by the university or its agents is not commercial use within the meaning of this paragraph"
3. Indexing of personal pages
   We decided to support the indexing of personal web pages as long as we can avoid indexing the personal page template.

4. Permission to authorize links
   Sure. Feel free to authorize links.

5. Conferencing software The Alumni Board Communications Committee will recommend to the Alumni Office that Lawrence set up some kind of Alumni discussion forum, specifically, web conferencing. Discussion software has been requested by a number of different groups on campus, including faculty (for classes), student organizations, and the admissions office. Options include:
   • Newsgroups: local and WiscNet
   • MS FrontPage discussion groups
   • Web conferencing software like WebBoard, Caucus, Discus, etc.
   • Courseware products like Blackboard or Nicenet

   Computer services prefers to promote newsgroups as they are already in place. Other users have found newsgroups unfriendly and more difficult to use. Local newsgroups could be created for access-restricted, on-campus discussions, but an alumni newsgroup might need to be done through WiscNet.

   Gilbert and Isaacson were dispatched to research the topic.

Announcements

1. Ad staff approved notifying students in FERPA documents about possible use of their likeness in publications
2. Web server will be moving on June 25 to an NT host. See http://www.lawrence.edu/guide/newserver.shtml for more information.

Next meeting

Someday in the Sampson House Conference Room

Pete Gilbert