[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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