Sometime in the coming year, we will have more than a dream.
Somewhere along the line, it seemed to me that the books and the photos and the living history of the village didn't have to stay quite as fragmented as they are - that if someone - anyone - made a website and put a framework on that site, then perhaps it would grow. Not being very organised or disciplined, I haven't done a huge amount to it - eventually, the weight of time will bring to the site the links, the bulletin board ( or perhaps a list-server - easier to implement and maintain) and then, mayhap, more people, people with more than an incidental relationship with the 'Telechan in the world' than a goy like me, would get involved.
Specificattion of Functionality
The Telechan website
The website will be driven by a SQL database
he public website will hold a limited read-only version of this database
Commercially useful personal details e.g. email & snail address, phone No. etc,
will not be held on the public website database
Commercially useful personal details e.g. email & snail address, phone No. etc,
may be held on users pages, at their discretion. We will accept no responsibility
for such information.
The site will be publicly-viewable
Certain areas of the site will be password protected
The public website will be held on a secure server.
The secure certificate will be gained from Thawte or Verisign
The public website will be a mirror of the website held on
a unix server held on a private lan behind a firewall
All executive actions will be on the server held on the private lan
Data submitted from the public website will be communicated to the server on
the private lan for execution
The server on the private lan will check the contents of the public website
on a regular basis and replace any pages showing inconsistencies
Mailing-lists
The public website will access a listserver held on the host
computer.
This listserver will remain the responsibility of the hosting company
There will be two listserver mailing lists offered to the Telechan family.
Both will be moderated, invitation-only lists.
Telechan-people will be for the family-at-large.
There will be a publicly visible link on the website.
Admission to this list will be via a present list-member
Telechan-committee will be for the get-together committees
only.
It will hold a subset of family members. It will not be publicly visible, nor
will there be links to it on the website.
Admission to this list will necessitate being a recognised ‘get-together committee’
member
Content input
Content-input to the site will be restricted to those persons on the telechan-people mailing list
Content-input may be of two types:
New information for the family: e.g. a birth or death Such information will
be passed to the family database.
Website-content regarding such events must be published seperately Content about
a member of the family,
or about someone closely related to the ongoing history of the family, or about
a specialist topic : e.g. recipes, poetry, etc.
Content may be submitted by any person on the telechan-people mailing list
Content submitted and published will continue to be published only so long as there is no complaint about it
HTML and associated graphics files will be published by HTML
over SMTP
All day-to-day web-page management will be by this same mechanism
Files relating to a given web-page will be held within a single directory on
the server
Users will be provided with instructions as to the use of this publishing method
Users will be given a working email address to post their submissionss to
Submissions will be placed firstly on the privately held server and passed to
the public server at the first available update of the public site
Users will be given a second email address in case of difficulty with their
web-page submissions
Users will be informed with their first submission ( or earlier) that the webmaster/webmistress
cannot provide support for HTML authoring problems
Mail aliasing
Members of the telechan-people mailing list will be eligible for a @telechan.org
mail alias
This alias will point to a valid email address designated by the applicant
No mail addressed to this alias will be held on the Telechan.org hosting computer
Real addresses pointed to by the @telechan.org alias MAY be held on the host
computer, if this is the only practical means of providing the alias
This alias may be offered automatically when a user is placed on the mailing
list
Calender/diary
Access to a family-at-large calender will be available to telechan-people mailing-list
members
This application may be directly addressed by users
This application may necessarily be hosted on the public server
The contents of the calender will not be supervised by the webmaster/mistress
under normal circumstances
Members of the telechan-committee mailing-list will be able to access a similar
calender
This committee calender will not be publicly visible
There will be no links on the site to this calender
Admission to the committee mailing-list will automatically admit users to this
restricted calender
Access to both calenders will be password protected
Committee members will be able to access the public calender without inputting
a further password
