Harold,
Thank you for the information. Thursday afternoon, I sent
you questions/comments regarding the web site and what I believe to be a new contract/agreement
with Fathom for features to be worked on for the website. I’d like
answers to those questions. Some of the features being proposed under
this new contract/agreement appear to be functionality that we had under the
old website.
Those questions/comments were:
1. Why
are we giving more money to Fathom to add the same features we had under the
old web site and should have been part of their original work?
2. How
much extra are we now being asked to pay for the data downloads that SMs and ODV
used to get under the old web site?
3. Why
wasn't this done under the original proposal agreement?
4. What
other features did we have on the old site that we need and used, and are not
available on the new site?
5. We're
over budget, way past the completion dates, still having problems with the new
site AND still being asked to send more money to Fathom.
Some new questions that come to
mind:
6. Your
items 5 and 15 – report generator and expanded RSS audio feeds is
dependent upon a new agreement/contract with Fathom for additional work.
Has A&F or the EC approved the expenditure of additional funds to Fathom,
if not, under whose authority would those funds be released?
7. Several
weeks ago, I found I no longer had access to download files within ODV. I
sent a note to Dave K1ZZ and access was restored the following day. Early
last week, I tried to get a list of clubs within the WPA Section on the Search
for ARRL Affiliated Clubs in public side of the website and was presented with
a list of the first 8 clubs within WPA. Upon selecting “next”
for the next 8 clubs, the search was lost and I was given page 2 for 2196
clubs. I passed that information to Katie who acknowledged the search list
was not operating properly and she would see about getting it fixed. To
date, it still isn’t fixed and I haven’t been told when it might be
fixed. It would be nice to know what bugs or problems we are still seeing
with the website. Perhaps a listing from Bugzilla posted on ODV?
8. Item
11 – Make Interactive Forums Operational. I’d rather see features/functions
of the old website put in place before we do any additional work on making new
features work and I know my members and volunteers within the Atlantic Division
feel the same way.
9. Item
15 – Expanded RSS Audio Feeds. Same is my item 8.
Thank you…
-
Bill N3LLR
From: Kramer, Harold,
WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 9:05 AM
To: arrl-odv
Cc: Patton, David NN1N; Kramer, Harold, WJ1B; Johnson, Debra, K1DMJ;
Hare, Ed W1RFI; Glass, Katie, KB1ULQ; Somma, Maria, AB1FM; Ford, Steve, WB8IMY;
Bloom, Jon, KE3Z; Inderbitzen, Bob, NQ1R; Pitts, Allen W1AGP; Jahnke, Deb,
K1DAJ
Subject: [arrl-odv:19379] Web Udate and Priorities
To: ODV and Department Heads
To bring everyone up to date, I have attached a Word 2003 (to
assure compatiblity) document that outlines the status of the current Web
updates along with assigned prioirities.
Please let me know if you have any questons.
73,
Harold
Harold Kramer, WJ1B
Chief Operating Officer
ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio
225 Main Street
Newington , CT 06111
860 594 0220
www.arrl.org