Talk:User group meeting & agenda 29 October 2008

Important news item relating to US Genweb links.
Looks like there has been a tiff between Ancestry and US Genweb.

The end result is that many US Genweb links may be changing, and moving to new hosting services, some of this is due to the bylaws of US Genweb and headers/footers, etc. Many links in the wiki may need to be checked, then reset if there are bad ones. The news story is on this bloggers page, it's todays (29 October 2008) entry.

http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/

Much of the article is very very OLD information - it was March 2008 when the exodus took place. I should know because I moved my sites from there to different place. That comment about Wiki format was out of question completely because anyone can ERASE the information quite easily. The USGenWeb Project management team are elected, not appointed and as such they do NOT tell the site coordinators where they are to be. It is up to local coordinators. And out of all that - I have to DISAGREE with the blogger about the statement that The USGenWeb Project hurted itself. You need to see the data had grown considerably at very accelerated pace since moving off. I am ONE of The USGenWeb Project coordinators. dsammy 16:19, 29 October 2008 (UTC)