[hbpm] HawkesBay.pm Website?

[George Woolley]

hi jacinta,
thanks for speaking to my concerns.
- george

p.s.since i live in california,
i likely will not be:
* coming to meetings (if there are any) 
* a good possibility for coordinating the group
however, i guess i could try to stir up
some discussion on the list.

On Monday 19 November 2007 22:31, Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> > is anyone else having  a problem accessing the website?
> > does anyone know what's going on?
> >
> > when i looked on perl mongers.
> > i did not find HawkesBay.pm listed.
> > does that seem right?
>
> Every few years or so, the PM Groups Leader (it was Dave Cross, but I think
> he's passed the baton on) seems to get an itch to cull the PM groups that
> appear inactive.  The greatest was in 2002 and another followed the census
> at the end of 2005 (http://www.pm.org/census/2005/).  Since Hawkes Bay
> apparently survived both of those, I don't know why it's lost its status
> now, but its not irrevocable.
>
> The two most important criteria for "active" seems to be
>
> 	* Does the PM group leader respond to emails from the PM GRoups Leader?
> 	* Is the website even slightly/remotely current?
>
> To resurrect the group, we need Daniel Hopkirk to contact support at pm.org
> following the below instructions:
>
> http://groups.pm.org/faq.html#how_do_i_request_a_new_group_or_to_reactivate
>_a_group_that_has_been_inactive
>
> To keep it alive, it would help if the list had more discussion, and if you
> met occasionally (even once every three months) while updating that
> information on your website.  There are some useful hints on running a
> successful PM group available:
>
> 	http://www.pm.org/successful/index.html
>
> If Daniel Hopkirk isn't interested in running the group anymore, he can
> cede that responsibility to anyone he chooses.  Once the group is
> re-recognised (which is important as otherwise the list might also be
> culled), it should have a website and be listed on www.pm.org again.  It's
> also allowable to have more than one person registered (with their own
> WebDAV details) as website maintainers.
>
> All the best,
>
> 	Jacinta