Posted Jan. 14, 2019, 8:30 p.m. by Vice Admiral Thomas (Vice President) (Thomas B)
Posted by Rear Admiral Daniel Lerner (Personnel Director) in STF Yearbook Discussion
I just want to summarize where the Yearbook discussion has been left at, and maybe make one or two comments on what has been said so far.Here’s where I think the consensus was:
1) Agreement to stop actively maintaining the Yearbook (and I infer there is therefore agreement to amend the PDept bylaw to remove the Yearbook section).
2) The PDept should export all (really, all? - see my comments below) the content to be hosted (by STF’s library? - see my comments below).
I want to make sure there is agreement to export everything. Right now, the Yearbook consists of:
- Non-photo images. This is generally when instead of uploading a photo of themselves, the person uploaded an image related to their STF animal nickname, or uploaded some kind of avatar (like a South Park image).
- Images of current members. Some of them are… interesting… and maybe not what people what to be remembered by :P
- Images of former members. This includes members who were in the club for a month or two, members who were in the club for decades, members that just left, and members who passed away (either while a member or after they left).
- Photos from STF-related events
So unless I hear otherwise, I’ll arrange to have everything listed above exported.
In terms of where the pictures should go afterwards, I heard one suggestion of the library. Was that in reference to our actual STF library (which I think Joe needs to weigh in on because (a) he’s the librarian and (b) I’m given to understand the library is not in a position to host images), or was that a reference to our /images folder in STF (which I think TECH should weigh in on)? It’s a lot of images. Also, given the concerns raised earlier in this conversation about not letting the photos on social media, our images file is accessible my anyone (not just members) and has less protections than Facebook (which I raise because some are concerned about the lack of privacy with Facebook). I should probably add that the current Yearbook has less protections than Facebook and is accessible to the public as a whole…
So if I could just get some clarification of where this part of the discussion is headed, that would be very helpful.
-Daniel
Hi Daniel - you did not understand my original suggestion. These images should not go on to be hosted in a viewable way on the website. They should be exported from the current yearbook software. It will be very hard if not impossible for that software in its dated age to selectively export, so yes, it will likely have to be all images unless it can export only specific galleries.
That export will most likely be in a compressed file (.zip, .tar.gz, etc). That is the file that should be on the Library. People will be able to download that file and go through the images as they may want. The Library is not suited to hosting images in the way that the gallery does, and putting them all on the /images folder is a waste of space.
While you are somewhat right that our site offers “less protection” - out site is an individual, low-traffic site, without tagging on these images. It is difficult to search for a person’s name and come up with an image from the gallery, and if hosted as a .zip in the library - impossible. My privacy concerns were less, also, about site security, and more about the intention of the user when uploading them. They chose to upload those images to star-fleet.com, and gave us permission by doing so to display them. They made no such decision for Facebook.
So - to sum up. The images should be exported to a .zip file, and that file should be downloadable from the library (or elsewhere) for archival. No images should be uploaded anywhere else, especially to a url that is not “star-fleet.com”.
Thanks,
-Thomas
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