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SigWeb has been assigned webmastering duties for ACM
and is working various web design projects.
Please email Albert Ko with any 
questions.


Meeting Minutes:

9.16.99 - 3rd meeting 

  We talked more about our webmastering duties
  and redesign for both the ACM and SigWeb pages.
  We will be working next week in introducing 
  the basics of web design including basic HTML 
  layout at the next meeting while working on a 
  few preliminary site designs.
  
  The Perl and Database Integration workshops will
  be moved back to make time for the webmastering 
  project to get underway.  The Perl workshop will be
  held 3 weeks from now and the Database Integration
  presentation will be the week after.  

9.9.99 - 2nd meeting 

  We chose Sandeep Patel as our treasurer to 
  help handle our SORF funding.  Also, we talked
  about future projects and redesigning our pages
  for a new look.  We also talked about various 
  future workshops including a Perl and Database 
  Integration workshop.  

12.01.98 - Web Improvement Workshop

    Dylan Newhouse-Vitt, Steve Mycynek, Albert
  Ko, and Valerie Franek presented on various
  improvement topics, ranging from layout and
  navigation to graphics and compatibility.

    The workshop included a question and answer
  period and was quite informal.  Overall, it 
  seemed to benefit those attending and may be
  followed up with another workshop next 
  semester.

    The examples used at the workshop can be 
  found at the following URL:

    http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigweb/workshop/


11.18.98 - Eighth Meeting

    A few of us met with Steve Mycynek again, to
  further discuss the web improvement workshop.
  We planned out the details of the materials
  we would present.

    We also decided it would be better to meet
  next semester to work on the database project.


11.11.98 - Seventh Meeting

    Steve Mycynek, the coordinator for ACM's 
  promotional workshops, began the meeting off by
  explaining an upcoming web improvement workshop.

    This presentation will involve SIGWeb members
  talking about various web topics, like graphics,
  layout, etc. and will take place the first week
  of September.  We discussed potential topics
  for the workshop, and Steve asked for volunteers.

    After this discussion, we headed to one of the
  lower level labs to learn more about Perl and 
  CGI scripts in general.  Whitney Jackson had a 
  few examples we all looked over and tested out.

    Next week we hope to continue in this 
  direction for our database project.


11.04.98 - Sixth Meeting

    We further discussed the database project, with 
  Whitney Jackson leading the meeting.  He talked 
  about using relational databases and discussed the
  basics of how they work

    Whitney created a page for this project, located
  at:

      http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigweb/fermiproj/

    We'll further discuss this next week, and hope to
  get some work done on it as well.


10.28.98 - Fifth Meeting

    John Criswell presented on Argus Systems'
  Gibraltar, software for secure online business
  transactions.

    John explained various issues related to
  security on the Web in general, as well as
  Argus' specific approach in creating their
  software.


10.21.98 - Fourth Meeting

    We started right off with a presentation by
  Jack Long and Whitney Jackson on databases, from
  the basics to their various uses with the web.

    Jack talked a bit about CGI and scripts in
  relation to databases and accessing them from
  web pages.

    After the presentation we decided to meet for
  our FermiLab database project on the Wednesdays
  when regular meetings aren't scheduled.  Our
  first such meeting will be on November 4th, same
  time, same place.

    This project may become an EOH project, though
  nothing definite has been planned out.


10.14.98 - Third Meeting

    We began the meeting by discussing some project
  ideas for the group, as well as potential
  presentations to have in the future.

    We agreed on two projects that the group would 
  like to pursue:

     (1) An ACM@UIUC t-shirt design competition,
         based on the Web.  We'd like to implement
         voting on the designs, as well as a system
         for ordering the shirts, once they're 
         purchased.  We decided who would want to 
         work on design and layout, CGI, etc.  We'll 
         discuss when to meet on the list.

     (2) A web database project, which we'll further
         learn about and discuss next Wednesday, at 
         an "extra" meeting.

    We plan on having workshops and other 
  presentations, though none of these are definite 
  right now.  Suggestions are welcome of course.


09.30.98 - Second Meeting

    After introductions, Louann Wilcock spoke about 
  the University's Web Technology Group.

    Louann talked about the various projects her 
  department has been involved in, including 
  various distance education programs and IDEA
  Village, an online community.  
 
    She also spoke of their need for web help, both
  in programming and with their help chat.  If 
  you're interested, email her at lwilcock@uiuc.edu.

    For more information about the Web Tech Group,
  check out their web page at:

      http://www.webtech.uiuc.edu/



09.16.98 - First Meeting

	About 30 people attended this meeting, collecting
  in the office and then moving to 3211.  We'll be 
  meeting there for the rest of the semester, unless
  otherwise announced or posted.

    We started the meeting with introductions, talking
  about our majors and web background/knowledge.  We
  seem to have a varied group.

    We talked about possible workshops and topics to 
  cover, including an HTML workshop, a CGI presentation,
  improving existing home pages, web-safe graphics and
  colors, etc.

    I asked for suggestions for projects and a few were
  discussed after the meeting, including future
  presentations.


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