[Helpers] FST links project - overview

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

   Wrote this days ago, but it bounced because I had a big file attached...

At 01:17 PM 4/16/2005, Sandra Davis wrote:
>Hey all, in looking ahead and planning my work load, I thought I'd post
>my thoughts on a single, specific helper-project.

   Holy cow, I love your mind!! Laser!

>  I know it's always
>easier to have a target to focus on than any hugemongous overwhelm
>situation.

   Hell, yeah!

>  Plus when I read the list of stuff that we could help with,
>I start to feel "yesitus" - like saying yes to so many things that no
>one thing gets completely done! =0

  An ongoing problem with me, too.

>So here goes _A_ single project overview below. If we like this, then
>we can get started on Objective #1, yes? Sandra
>
>Project ... #3,456 right? Hehehe...
>
>Title: Off site links on each FST topic
>Scope: To renovate link lists
>
>Overall Objectives:
>1. Establish starting point.
>2. Start permissions cycle.
>3. Assign search topics to individuals.
>4. Perform web search (off-site).
>5. Perform Mystress-web search ('on-site').
>6. Conclusion.
>
>Detail Objectives:
>1.1 Identify dead links and post results.

  That one is easy.  I can do that, generated automatically by Xenu link 
tester and sorted by page and link. I have one ready, diced it to usable 
bits and posted some bits already.
   Download Xenu:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html


>1.2 Identify helper 'sub-team' who'd like to work this project.
>1.3 Get a Mystress green light "yes, on the right track" stuff (just in
>case the work has already been done, someone has already been assigned
>to do so, or priorities have shifted, that sort of thing)

  Yay.

>1.4 Assign individuals or teams to each detail.
>
>2.1 Identify working non-Mystress site links
>2.2 Generate a generic "May we have your permission to mirror" email.
>   (Email would need to be clear that the sender is a helper, and that
>the permission request is for Mystress-site(s) only.)

   The helper can have a fire-serpent.com email address... or even just a 
personality that redirects mail to those involved with the project. Let me 
know what you need, my account has unlimited addresses.

>2.3 Approve the generic text.

   Three versions, now that some old dead links can be found through the
time machine at web.archive.org. Personally, I use many custom sig files 
for a lot of form notes, like how to set up an appointment, or the "please 
snip" reminders I send to some K-list members.

1.) Pages recovered with time travel.
   Hello:
      I am assisting with updating the links pages at www.fire-serpent.com, 
The Fire Serpent Tantra Kundalini Mystery School. A link to your page was 
included in the additional reading/research section of some of the course 
lessons, and it was missed when the page went down. We have recovered your 
page and would like to continue to use it to educate the students by 
mirroring it on our site, in a special reading room library archive 
section. We would be glad to credit you as you request, including a 
javascript spam protected email link.
    Please respond and let us know if we may do this. Thank you!


2.) Links that still work.
   Hello:
      I am assisting with updating the links pages at www.fire-serpent.com, 
The Fire Serpent Tantra Kundalini Mystery School. A link to your page is 
included in the additional reading/research section of some of the course 
lessons. We would like to continue to use it to educate the students by 
mirroring it on our site, in a special reading room library archive 
section. We would be glad to credit you as you request, including a 
javascript spam protected email link.
    Please respond and let us know if we may do this. Thank you!

3.)  Reciprocal links: This is a separate category, annually I do a search 
on my domain, etc. and find out who has linked their site to mine. The 
reciprocal links go on the main links page.

Hello:
    Thankyou for linking to my site.
   I am in the process of assembling a reciprocal links page.

    Blessings, Mystress.
   etc. etc.

   There is a rough draft, anyhow...


>2.4 Review the results of #2.1, so folks don't get multiple requests.

   yup, best to compile a webmaster list, and one person sends the emails.

>2.5 Write to the folks of #2.1.
>2.6 Submit results of permissions received.

    whoever is finding pages to mirror, save a copy of the site on your 
first visit.
file>save as>web page complete saves it to a tidy folder.  Use the url as 
the filename so we can keep them straight,  rename them to something more 
unix-friendly and readable as we get permission to mirror. The mirrored 
pages will go to fire-serpent.org/library. Not yet created...

>3.1 Identify the highest lesson number each helper is on.

  yup, I do not want helping with the page to interfere in your progress on 
the course.

>3.2 Distribute the 59 topics per a) helper interest and b) lesson
>progress. (for example, the sub-team might want to all focus a web
>search on the same lesson for a week for a kind of maximum coverage....
>the sub-team might divy up the load too, so all lessons are getting
>some attention at once....)

   Best to divvy a few lessons each, otherwise many people will be finding 
the same links.
   Remember: We only need a few good ones. 20 is too many, a dozen is good, 
but fewer good ones is perfectly ok.

>3.3 Generate a template for search results (i.e., I envision the
>possibility of submitting our results in a way that is html-ready and
>friendly.)

   Easy:

<br><a href="http://www.putURLhere.com/" target="link_window">This is the 
link title</a> Are there notes to put here?

   Note: code bits won't show up if you have your mail reader set to read 
html. If all you are seeing is the link title and not the code and the url 
then change your settings...


>4.1 Perform 'off-site' web search on assigned topics.
>4.2 Assemble results of web search as an ordered list with the
>following:
>   a. title of FST lesson
>   b. url of relevant link found
>   c. title of linked page
>   d. line or two of what the page is about
>   e. (optional) just for fun, your energy read on the page (what kind
>of a 'hit' you got, else why recommend it?) =)

  Cool! :)

>   f. (optional) if a permissions effort is already started

   Not so far.. but many of the links in the preview have already been 
repaired in the updated version.

>(compare
>your link to the list of #2.1)
>4.3 Forward results of web search to TBA (to be announced, likely
>sub-team leader)

   If folks don't mind the traffic, post results to this list for team 
comparison. This list is setup to allow attachments, so we can share files 
and work in progress.

>5.1 Perform 'on-site' Mystress web search on same assigned topics
>   a. domin8rex.com
>   b. kundalini-teacher.com
>   c. kundalini-gateway.org
>   d. FST tea room archives
>   e. k-list archives

   I can also provide sitemaps to all pages on the site, etc.

    I could post the xenu list of all tea room posts with the subject here, 
if it would make hunting easier. The tea room search engine works well, 
though, much better than the K-list archive search.  The tea room has about 
3000 posts but the K-list is around 32,000... or is it 35,000? Haven't 
counted recently. It will increase a lot when I get the digests converted. 
That will simplify the searching too.

>5.2 Same as #4.2
>5.3 Same as #4.3
>
>6.1 Assemble web search results periodically.
>6.2 Submit results to Mystress.

     Right. I think it would be best if one other person has FTP access, to 
actually upload new files and help me edit the ones I am working on.
   Sachiko, do you have time for stuff like that?

   I am also going to invite Hillary and Richard to join this list. They 
have been helping in the past, and Hillary has the cpanel access info I 
have been trying to find to give to Sachiko! Richard converted the K-list 
digests to individual emails for me, and both of them have a backup copy of 
my sites on CD.

>6.3 ---project end?!--- =)

   I do not forsee the ending coming sooner than a few months, but I am 
thinking of the overall project, the FST update.