I may have been delinquent on this. I think I responded but maybe I only
thought I did, or assumed that the meeting was going ahead anyway. I am
planning to attend if we do have a meeting.
Maybe if everyone on this list can respond directly to Roger whether
they are actively planning to attend if a meeting happens, we'll have a
better idea of whether it's worth while.
Doug
Roger Graves wrote:
> Russ,
> I think the discussion archive may be an important historical resource
> for future research, so it should be preserved some way. I can bring
> this up for discussion at the CASDW Annual General Meeting to see if
> that group wants to add it to the CASDW website/space (currently
> hosted by the University of Manitoba; Christina Penner is the person
> responsible for this, so I've copied her on this message). That
> meeting is June 1; is that within your timeframe at UNB?
>
> Failing that, we could look into hosting it here at the U of Alberta.
> We have an applications developer who works with Writing Studies, and
> I'm pretty sure she would be able to do this.
>
> But your message opens up another point of discussion I had been
> meaning to write about this week. Will there be an Inkshed meeting
> this year? At CASDW last year, 18 people crowded into a small room and
> expressed quite a bit of enthusiasm for such a meeting. This winter,
> ten people responded to my email about meeting for a day at the end of
> the CASDW conference for an Inkshed meeting. Two weeks ago, in
> response to an email to get started planning that day, only one of
> those ten people responded. Today, I can't see that there is any point
> in renting a room for an Inkshed meeting at CASDW.
>
> Is this the consensus of the larger group on the CASLL list?
>
> Roger Graves
>
> Roger Graves
> Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~graves1/index.html
>
> On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Russ Hunt wrote:
>
>> Actually, Betsy, I wasn't clear; there are two archives. One is the
>> archive of the CASLL list, which is part of the LISTSERV program
>> running at UNB. It's here:
>>
>> https://listserv.unb.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CASLL
>>
>> That's the one I think we need to do something about fairly soon.
>>
>> The other is the Inkshed Web site, which has all the issues of the
>> Newsletter, running back to September 1982.
>>
>> http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/backs.htm
>>
>> That's on the St. Thomas Web site,and while in the long run I think
>> it should move, too, it will probably be okay for a while.
>>
>> -- Russ
>>
>> On 23 Apr 2010 at 9:03, Betsy Sargent wrote:
>>
>>> Russ, I think the archives and the domain name are both
>>> important. I'm wondering if it might make sense to have CASDW host
>>> the archive (and also claim the domain name as a subgroup--sort of
>>> the way that CCCC is a subgroup of NCTE), if McGill was okay with
>>> that (it seems a natural connection to me, since so many people in
>>> CASDW started with Inkshed).
>>> Those past newsletters are really useful--I send students to various
>>> of those articles online all the time. I use them myself.
>>>
>>> Can you clarify for me if the archive is safe at UNB? You said that
>>> "The existing Inkshed Web site, with its archive of back issues of
>>> the Newsletter, will probably stay up indefinitely at STU"--but you
>>> also suggested that the listserv might be eliminated soon and that
>>> "The only way I know to preserve the archive, though, is to preserve
>>> the listserv." If the archive is in danger, we need to do something
>>> to preserve the inkshed website and past issues of the newsletter,
>>> in my view.
>>>
>>> Best, Betsy
>>>
>>> At 08:27 AM 4/23/2010, you wrote:
>>>> A few years ago I registered inkshed.ca as a domain name. I've
>>> never
>>>> done much with it -- all it does is to bounce browsers to
>>>> http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -- but the registration is about to
>>>> expire. I don't see any point in my renewing it, but I thought
>>> I'd
>>>> post the possibility on CASLL of someone else taking it over, in
>>> case
>>>> anyone has plans for it. There's a week before it expires and
>>> becomes
>>>> publicly available -- I suppose the easy way to claim it if you
>>> want
>>>> it would be to wait till it's free and register it. Of if you want
>>> it
>>>> and think someone's crouched and ready to pounce, let me know and
>>>> we'll arrange a transfer.
>>>>
>>>> The existing Inkshed Web site, with its archive of back issues of
>>> the
>>>> Newsletter, will probably stay up indefinitely at STU, but if
>>> someone
>>>> has a better idea about preserving it it would be movable.
>>>>
>>>> In a similar issue, I've been finding it more and more difficult
>>> to
>>>> maintain the CASLL listserv. It's on the UNB server, and UNB
>>> doesn't
>>>> like to have listowners who aren't on the UNB system. (I'm having
>>> a
>>>> similar issue with the STLHE-L list, which is much bigger and
>>> more
>>>> active.) My guess is that in May they'll ask me to find someone
>>> with
>>>> a UNB account to act as listowner of record.
>>>>
>>>> There's only been one message on CASLL since the flurry about
>>> Inkshed
>>>> 2010 toward the end of February, so it seems to me it's not
>>> serving
>>>> much function -- except that some people might think the CASLL
>>>> archive worth preserving. It goes back to January of 1995, and
>>> there
>>>> might be historical interest in some of the discussions. The only
>>> way
>>>> I know to preserve the archive, though, is to preserve the
>>> listserv.
>>>> That could be done by moving the whole works to another
>>> university
>>>> server running LISTSERV and willing to host it, but I've been
>>> trying
>>>> to set that up with STLHE-L, and finding it pretty complicated.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody have any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> -- Russ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Russ Hunt
>>>> Department of English
>>>> St. Thomas University
>>>> http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/
>>>>
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