New Updates

Well, work has gotten in the way for the last couple of weeks, but I have clawed my way out of that. After two straight days of slaving in front of the computer, the Site is fairly well up-to-date. And, boy, are there updates. Look at the News section on the Home page for some details, but there are new Contest forms, three Standards which are going to the BOD for final approval, and the Minutes from the Mid-Year meeting of the BOD. If these links don't work, you can find them through the Home page. In addition, the AP Awards have been updated through March of 2009.

So, yes, we've been busy. Region elections have been reflected, as well as other topics. Has anyone checked out the new Calendar? No? Check it out. We are experimenting with Google Calendars and trying to keep things at a Region level, right now.

Have been spending some time trying to see if we can get the AP Awards in an XML format. That way, we can do some sorting which we can't do now. We'll experiment with this on the AP stuff, as well as on thw C&I Warrants. It may be a little more easier on the Warrants, as they are moe straightforward format-wise. We'll see.

Have not done as much work on the Forum and the CMS as I would have hoped. I want to get the CMS done in the next week or two so that the page owners can begin to do a lot of this work theirselves. Plus, I go for a week at the beach next month and on't want ot have to be tinking about updates while I lounge in the sun with an umbrella drink!

What else...? Oh, elections are coming due. Your ballots should all be in the hands of the Election Committee by now. Best of luck to all the candidates. We will know the results in about 2-3 weeks I think.

Also, the Region Presidents and Membership Chairs should all have been notified by now that they have access to the National Membership database. They will be able to see those members in their own Region, as well as download via Excel for their own purposes. Updates will still go through HQ for QA purposes, but within the next couple of months, individual members will be able to update their profiles.

I think those are the high spots, but there have been a bunch of them over the last two weeks. I'll post next week and see how far we get with integrateing the database into the Forum, Site, and Wiki so that one registration will entitle all to the other things.

Happy Mother's Day!