I am hereby opening up the position of Assistant Internet Director (AIDir) for application.

Duties of the AIDir include:

- Responding to issues relating to the IDept's work both on the IDept ship and in the IDept project.
- Uploading files to the STF server
- Updating departmental pages
- IRC Administration
- Responding to queries on the IDept ship and in issue queue
- Assisting maintainers in the upkeep of their content
- Looking after department in the absence of the IDir

Yes. They are often the bane of every XO/CO/GM/FComm and all the other poor folks who have to fill them in.
Yes. They are probably the least exciting part of STF.
No. You can't just shove them under the carpet.
But! They're important and necessary - so why not make that experience a little easier!

Ladies and Gents,

Over the last 48 hours, many of you would have noticed that STF was offline. This was due to WeBBspace causing too much load on the server. In order to be fair to other customers that shared the server, Pair decided to take WeBBspace offline. Unfortunately for us, there was no prior warning - just an email that was sent out when their system blocked access to WeBBspace.

Earlier today, WeBBspace was disabled by STF's web host. Further investigation by Jack Dipper and Larry Garfield determined that our host felt we were drawing too many CPU resources, and so to keep us from overloading the server blocked access to the directory where the code is stored.

Ladies and Gents,

As most of you have no doubt noticed, the WeBB wasn't allowing replies to notes to be posted. This is due to a known bug and is currently being dealt with (see http://www.star-fleet.com/webb/node/144783 for details). We have put in place measures which will allow you to post once again. Whilst this does not fix the issue entirely, we now know the cause and are looking into it :-).

If you have any questions, or are still unable to post, please leave a comment on the link above.

Happy posting!

Jack
2AIDir

With the STF Library back in business, we now need a new Assistant Librarian!

At this point, the ALib is largely a data entry position. You don't need to know Java or XSLT or ant or any of that sort of thing. There are three primary skill sets you will need:

Per recent discussion, the news section has finally had some subtle but important changes!

All members of the cabinet can now post news items, which they can categorize into the appropriate section (by department). All news items will get listed in the "Latest news" block on the left side of the screen.

Then, the Internet Department can take selected news items of special importance and promote those to the front page, giving them extra prominence.

You can also subscribe via RSS to the front page feed or to the news channel for each section. Cool!

With the latest upgrade, there is an important change to the way Ship membership works. You must now actively "subscribe" to a ship before you can post on it. To do so, click the "Subscribe" link right above the Roster on any ship. You must then confirm your subscription.

To remove yourself from a ship, click "Manage subscription" (in the same place) and select unsubscribe. You can also optionally ask the system to send you an email every time a new Post is made on the ship if you wish.

There are a couple of new features this change enables, but COs have a little work to do first. :-)

The Internet Department is pleased to announce a new and shiny bug tracker, integrated directly into WeBBspace!

Visible in the primary links menu at the top of the page, you can now access a list of STF Projects. Right now there's just one, for WeBBspace itself, but we can add an unlimited number. For each project, you can create any number of issues, or tasks, that anyone can follow-up on or work on. We'll likely have one for each department before long.

From now on, all bug reports should be submitted to the WeBBspace project rather than posted in the IDept ship.

WeBBspace will be down for emergency maintenance from approximately 9 pm US Eastern Time to 10 pm US Eastern Time on Wednesday, 21 May. In order to implement some much needed performance improvements to keep our database server running properly, we will need to freeze the site in order to transfer the database to a backup server, run some update routines, and restore them to the live site.