[MLA] MLA web site
Bob Katz
bobkatz at digido.com
Mon Jan 22 17:26:20 CET 2018
I approve. I unvolunteered from the job of webmaster eons ago.
Bob
On 1/22/18 10:57 AM, Kevin Gross wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>> <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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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/
>>>> <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-loudness.com/index.php/weblinks
>>>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20170111220534/http://music-loudness.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
>>>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <mailto:mla at gmail.com>
>>>> account. The question is who takes responsibility to
>>>> read it...
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Eelco
>>>>
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