We would like to solicit from faculty, staff, graduate students and research staff recommendations and suggestions for the Department's web server. However, we have established certain framework restrictions and space availabilities to which the web server and its content will adhere. These arise from our view of the purpose of our Department's web server and other practical, security, and experiential guidance. These are as follows:

I. Department Web Server Purpose

To present the research, teaching activities, and accomplishments of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.

II. Availability and Restrictions

Content will be confined to the research, teaching activities, and accomplishments of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. No personal content will be allowed. This includes resume, Curriculum Vitae, and pictures of your girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife/children/pets/skateboard…etc.

Faculty will continue to have current 'Faculty' presence and current routes to modify its content through their UNIX home directories. Direct access to the Web Server is restricted to the Webmaster/System Administrator.

Research, teaching-related, and accomplishments content will be presented under identified groups such as is currently designed. Recommendations for additional groups will be accepted subject to approval of Webmaster and Department Head. For example, separate sections for 'Instructors' and 'Research Scientists' are being considered.

There will be no listing of undergrad students. (Groups such as TAMSCAMS may have their own listing, for which they would be responsible for maintaining)

The current Grad Student page will remain on-line. By request, the student's name may be made a link to their personal homepage located on the TAMU Web server or other location of their choice. If a grad student wishes to publish content, it will only be done under the research group/area that he/she belongs to. Responsibility for content of these types of pages is solely the responsibility of the group PI.

File space will be provided for the content of Research and other Groups; made available to UNIX computers by request to the Webmaster/System Administrator. This file space is currently planned to be on the order of 1 Terabyte.

Research Group presence will be as current:
   For each Research Group,
     A. Content is the responsibility of PI.
     B. Content is to be created/modified/updated by PI or group members.
     C. Permissions for content alteration specified by PI, enabled by Webmaster/System Administrator.
     D. No personal content allowed -- links to personal content only available thru links in listing of Grad Students.

Other group presence may be made available upon request and approval of Webmaster and Department Head.

Tilde (~) expansion will not be available. All web content will be local to the web server or the 'group' file space.

Given fixed administrative resources, web content responsibility will not migrate over time to the Webmaster or Systems Administrator. If created content metamorphoses into content that is the responsibility of the Department, this does not imply that maintenance will be the responsibility of the Webmaster or the Systems Administrator; i.e. if you make it, you maintain it, or it goes away.

Given the above, please respond with your ideas and requests to the Webmaster.

Thanks in advance,
Brandon Martin, Webmaster
Neil Smith, UNIX System Administrator