Category:Web team

There are a few reasonable places to go from here:


 * 1) The detailed explanation of Web team responsibilities.
 * 2) The list of general Web team explainer documents.
 * 3) The list of Web team recipes, explaining how to do specific tasks with the tech we have.

Process

 * Active members should idle on #freeculture whenever possible.
 * For statements that need to be recorded, like when you make a change server-side, always send an e-mail to the webteam mailing list. It's important we all have a copy of such things for reference.
 * Active members should be part of our Launchpad bug tracking network! If you are not already a member see Webteam Bug Tracking.

Asheesh Laroia (paulproteus)
Web Team Leader: I run this shop.
 * Contact info: See http://www.asheesh.org/
 * Wants to do: sysadmin tasks, database maintenance
 * I am responsible for making sure the server stays up. That means that if it's down, you talk to me first.  I'll file support tickets with whoever upstream.
 * Can do: Program in Python, hack PHP and Ruby and Perl
 * May learn: anything...?
 * Does not want to do: web design.
 * Time commitment: As little as necessary. See also the three virtues.

Chris Wilkinson (cwilkin)
Member
 * Speciality: Organization, Graphic Design
 * Time Commitment: As much as needed
 * Wants to: Return from being a wandering vagrant to actually accomplishing things again.

Abhay Kumar (aranis)
Mercenary Geek: I'm like an an 'observer state' at the UN. I can be tasked as necessary.
 * Contact
 * Wants to do: growth vision (aka 'brand management', including design and presence), coding tasks.
 * Can do: program in php / ruby
 * May learn: as needed
 * Does not want to do: TBD
 * Time commitment: Few hours a week. I have a full time job plus my few hours a week reserved for Wordpress leaves a few more hours to sleep, eat, etc.

Karen Rustad (mllerustad)
Pixel-stained technopeasant
 * Contact info: User:Karen
 * Wants to do: Graphics, web design, basic maintenance
 * Can do: Draw pretty things, edit content, work with mailing lists, write HTML, write CSS cannibalize other existing code
 * May learn: PHP
 * Does not want to do: Things that are over my head, unless someone can teach me how
 * Time commitment: Couple hours a week. Also dealing with the Core Team.

Nelson Pavlosky (skyfaller)
Liaison with the Board of Directors
 * Contact info: User:Skyfaller
 * Wants to do: General goal-setting, finding/reporting bugs
 * Can do: content editing, distributing passwords and privileges, giving new web team members tours of the website's internals, basic maintenance
 * Does not want to do: any web development or design
 * Time commitment: FreeCulture.org is my life, but I don't want to be involved with the web team, I want to work on other parts of the org. The web team needs to free me up for other jobs.

Pascal Klein (klepas)
Aspired digital pixel junkie (read: graphic designer)
 * Contact info: User:Klepas
 * Wants to do: graphic and web design, general management
 * Can do: Gimping, Inkscaping, some CSS and XHTML
 * May learn: Blendering, Python and/or PHP and more CSS
 * Does not want to do: anything I can't or someone else could do much better.
 * Time commitment: a few hours a week.

Scott Shawcroft (tannewt)
Aspiring free culture guru and artist supporter.
 * Contact info: User:tannewt
 * Wants to do: website programming and general promotion.
 * Can do: PHP, Python, MySQL
 * May learn: Stuff I don't know currently.
 * Doesn't want to do: graphics.
 * Time commitment: a few hours a week.

Matthew Vermeulen (MatthewV)
Maths fanatic
 * Contact info: User:MatthewV
 * Wants to do: Web stuff - site building design etc.
 * Can do: XHTML/CSS Basic Javascript and PHP, MySQL
 * May learn: what I need to know for whatever I'm working on ;)
 * Doesn't want to do: Hmm.. ask me to do something and find out
 * Time commitment: hours during holidays, minutes otherwise

Parker Phinney (pyrak/gameguy43/teh_parkerer)
Freelance Web Developer
 * Contact info: User:gameguy43
 * Wants to do: Simple PHP maintenance / semanticize xhtml and css / organize web team
 * Can do: PHP, SQL, XHTML, CSS, beginning to dabble in JS
 * May learn: JS, especially unobtrusive DOM-utilizing methods
 * Doesn't want to do: invalid html. use messy code.  i like clean
 * Time commitment: this is on the high end of my list of priorities. ping me and i can take care of it, provided i don't have a physics test the next day.

Tony Biondo (tonyb2007/tonyb2008/tonyb486)

 * Contact info: User:tonyb
 * Wants to do: PHP, CSS, Python, Linux/unix administration
 * Can do: PHP, SQL, XHTML, CSS, Python minimal JS
 * May learn: JS
 * Doesn't want to do: No felonys.
 * Time commitment: I'm incredibly bored most of the time and an IRC addict, highlight me on IRC - please!

Sawyer Pangborn (SPangborn)
Graphics/Web aficionado, musician and general geek
 * Contact info: User:spangborn
 * Wants to do: PHP, XHTML, CSS, JS
 * Can do: Java, Bash Scripting, Simple PHP, XHTML/CSS Validation/Coding, Graphics Work
 * May learn: Advanced PHP, SQL, JS
 * Doesn't want to do: I guess we'll find out.
 * Time commitment: A few hours a week, when I'm not busy being a Computer Science major

Courtney Thurston (Cthurs)

 * Contact info: User:Curston
 * Wants to do: General maintenance, anything else needed
 * Can do: Content work, General tasks, Basic JavaScript, HTML
 * May learn: Linux randomness, More JavaScript, Python, Lua, SQL, anything else along the way
 * Doesn't want to do: Remains to be seen. I'm not so adept to graphic design, so I suppose nothing of that nature.
 * Time commitment: Usually online.

Alec Story (astory)
Webteam Manager
 * Contact info: User:Meteorswarm
 * Wants to do: helping!
 * Can do: coding, debugging, emailing, nagging
 * May learn: webinating
 * Doesn't want to do: CSS
 * Time commitment: whatever I've got to spare

Meetings

 * 2005-12-14
 * 2006-01-25
 * 2006-03-22
 * 2006-03-29
 * 2006-04-26
 * 2006-10-18
 * 2006-10-25
 * 2006-12-06
 * 2007-02-28
 * 2007-03-21
 * 2007-09-20
 * 2007-10-07
 * 2009-04-05
 * 2010-11-11
 * 2011-03-06
 * 2011-03-20
 * 2011-04-17
 * 2011-05-01
 * 2011-05-15
 * Webteam/Upcoming

Theoretical members

 * Abhay Kumar (New York University)
 * Andy Scudder (University of Evansville)
 * Antti Vilpponen
 * Aphid Stern (University of California, Santa Cruz)
 * Asheesh Laroia (Johns Hopkins University)
 * Ben Blonder (Swarthmore College)
 * Cameron Parkins (University of Southern California)
 * Chris Butts (Washington University in St. Louis)
 * Desirina Boskovich (Emory University)
 * Downhill Battle
 * Eldo Varghese (University of Florida)
 * Erek Dyskant (Swarthmore College)
 * Eric Bailey (Mounds Park Academy)
 * Firas
 * Gavin Baker (University of Florida)
 * J.C. Jones (University of Florida)
 * Karen Rustad (Claremont Consortium)
 * Matt Lee
 * Miles Skorpen (Swarthmore College)
 * Nelson Pavlosky (Swarthmore College)
 * Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock (Franklin &amp; Marshall College)
 * Rebekah Baglini (Bryn Mawr College)
 * Rob Matthews (Swarthmore College)
 * Sophie Hwang (Cornell University)
 * Sawyer Pangborn (University of Utah)