All: The response to Marty's questions from Steve Ford. Barry J. Shelley, N1VXY Chief Financial Officer ARRL, Inc. Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Droid ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ford, Steve, WB8IMY" <sford@arrl.org> Date: Oct 14, 2016 12:59 PM Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:25861] IN-News October 14 2016 To: "Pereira, Carla" <cpereira@arrl.org>,"Woll, Marty, N6VI" <n6vi@socal.rr.com> Cc: "Gallagher, Tom, NY2RF" <tgallagher@arrl.org>,"Shelley, Barry, N1VXY" <bshelley@arrl.org> Marty 1. We will be issuing an announcement about the transition in mid to late November. The first issue of QST on the PageSuite platform will appear around December 10. 2. PageSuite will maintain archives of Digital QST going back to the beginning (January 2012). Because the new PageSuite platform does not support embedded video, readers will be directed to YouTube to watch Product Review videos, both in regular issues and in the archives. 3. PageSuite is compatible with all the same devices, and adds an app for the Kindle Fire. Unlike Nxtbook, which was Flash based, PageSuite is built on HTML5 so we anticipate fewer problems. 73 . . . Steve Ford, WB8IMY QST Editor ________________________________ From: Pereira, Carla Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 12:02 PM To: Woll, Marty, N6VI Cc: Ford, Steve, WB8IMY Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:25861] IN-News October 14 2016 Dear Marty, I am copying Steve Ford this email, as I don’t have any information on the new platform—I just compile the newsletter with the information reported from each department. It’s my understanding this is in the early stages, and I’m sure we will be updated throughout the process, but Steve may be able to answer some of your questions below. Best, Carla From: Woll, Marty, N6VI Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 11:53 AM To: Pereira, Carla <cpereira@arrl.org>; HQ Staff <hqstaff@arrl.org>; arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:25861] IN-News October 14 2016 Thanks, Carla. With respect to your reference to a new platform for digital QST, I have a few questions, as this is the first I have heard of it. As an aside, I was not thrilled with the Nxtbook platform, so I am not sorry to see it go. 1) How transparent will this change be for our members? If navigation and other tools are changing, will there be some explanatory material going out on the Web and / or in the ARRL Letter? 2) Will there be any change to the way we access the digital content in issues released prior to the changeover? 3) Is the new platform compatible with the same devices as was the Nxtbook platform? On a related note, Could management please reconsider the decision made at the inception of Digital QST not to provide linked PDF articles in the Web site’s Periodical Search function going forward? Some members, I included, find it inconvenient to find a desired article and then have to exit the Periodical Search, navigate to the Digital QST archive and then to the issue and page, and end up with an image with fewer viewing options than are available in PDF. The content is already produced in PDF for the Periodicals on CD-ROM. 73, Marty N6VI