[MLA] MLA web site

Mon Jan 22 16:57:01 CET 2018

If there is no one else who wants to volunteer as webmaster, I can do it
for now. I can log in and make the uncontroversial changes I've requested
in this thread. I should be able to do this later this week and then we can
go live.

Kevin Gross - AVA Networks

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Robin Reumers <robinreumers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to follow up to see if there is anything else you expect
> from me? I’m not sure what the current status is, or who will be the
> eventual webmaster, but please let me know what else you need from me :)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Robin
>
> On 09 Jan 2018, at 16:46, Kevin Gross <kevin.gross at avanw.com> wrote:
>
> The email we're talking about is initial contact from strangers. Further
> communication would happen through other email addresses. The email address
> we use to forward these initial contacts will not be visible to people who
> contact us. I, or whomever ends up receiving these, will not reply directly
> to people who contact us, we will delete spam and forward legit messages to
> our email reflector. I don't expect we would get frequent initial contacts
> so don't expect a big workload here. I have a similar contact page on my
> own website and I get a few contacts a month and most are spammy.
>
> Let's concentrate on getting minimal acceptable content on the new site so
> we can turn it on. We can add pictures and other fun stuff as a second
> pass. Now that we have the keys, is there someone who wants to volunteer to
> be webmaster?
>
> Kevin Gross - AVA Networks
>
> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 4:50 AM, Ian Shepherd <ian at mastering-media.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> Thanks from me, too.
>>
>> I think we should use a generic email address rather than have one person
>> receive all the submissions - aside from the workload involved, we often
>> have healthy debates (!) here about various issues, and speaking for myself
>> I’m not sure that I would feel confident writing a reply that I could be
>> certain would reflect all our voices accurately on every issue.
>>
>> We could put “about” information on the homepage perhaps, but we do have
>> that great photo that Mary took of almost all of us at the AES - if we
>> added Thomas and Florian we could use that, perhaps, to give a more
>> approachable feel to the site ?
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9 Jan 2018, at 09:18, Robin Reumers <robinreumers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I created an account for all of you as editor:
>> http://music-loudness.eu-central-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/wp-admin
>>
>> Username: mla
>> Password: (l)*50L83cIV0fN21dGRSECY
>>
>> The email on the contact page gets sent to the email address of the
>> admin. I can therefor set this up as "kevin.gross at avanw.com”.
>>
>> As for the About Us page, I’ll leave this up to you to delete it if you
>> all agree.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Robin
>>
>> On 09 Jan 2018, at 01:16, Kevin Gross <kevin.gross at avanw.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your efforts Robin. The site looks great.
>>
>> Our former site did not have an About Us page. We simply used the home
>> page for this information. Unless someone wants to volunteer some content
>> for both pages, I suggest we delete About Us and put all that on the home
>> page.
>>
>> The About Us information is different than we had on our former home page
>> (https://web.archive.org/web/20170201231348/http://www.music
>> -loudness.com/). If others are agreeable, I can combine the two into new
>> updated content for the home page.
>>
>> I'm getting a, "Failed to fetch" error opening the whitepaper. In
>> addition to onsite reader, we should also have a link for simple PDF
>> download.
>>
>> The Links page is empty. We had a bunch of content here on the original
>> site (https://web.archive.org/web/20170111220534/http://music-lou
>> dness.com/index.php/weblinks)
>>
>> I agree that a single login is needed for doing content updates. It is
>> probably best to designate one of us as webmaster.
>>
>> I would be happy to receive Contact page submissions through my email
>> address and forward non-spam submissions to the MLA reflector. I don't
>> think we need mla at gmail.com, just change the email address used behind
>> the scenes by the website as necessary.
>>
>> Kevin Gross - AVA Networks
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Grimm | Eelco <eelco at grimmaudio.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bob and Robin,
>>>
>>> > I'd like to see a link on the word "here" to the white paper in the
>>> About Us page. The title of the paper is not "Tidal Loudness Normalization"
>>> but "Loudness Normalization: The Future of File-Based Playback".
>>>
>>> Yes, those are definitely two different papers. We should distinghuish
>>> between true MLA publications and efforts that are just linked to MLA, like
>>> the change.org petition and my Tidal paper.
>>>
>>> > Need a link for "read his paper". Eelco will tell you if he wants to
>>> have his paper in the MLA repository or to point to the paper at a place he
>>> administers. If it points outside of the site the link should open in a new
>>> tab or window.
>>>
>>> I am fine with putting the paper at the MLA website too.
>>>
>>> > Where does the contact us email go to? If the address is hidden from
>>> the writer (which it should be) then perhaps the best thing would be to
>>> have their letter go to our maillist. What is the return email address that
>>> the site gives when it sends an email? Eelco, who administers the maillist,
>>> would have to authorize that address as a member of the maillist in order
>>> for the list to receive emails sent through the site. Do you have any kind
>>> of anti-spam utility that will reduce garbage emails sent through the site?
>>>
>>> Hmm, I don't know if that is wise Bob. We could indeed be spammed since
>>> the mailing list does not have proper anti-spam filters and our reflector
>>> should always travel through our own filters. It would probably be best to
>>> have contact messages be send to a gmail account, Google is pretty good at
>>> keeping spam out. We could even have an mla at gmail.com account. The
>>> question is who takes responsibility to read it...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Eelco
>>>
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