{"id":396,"date":"2019-07-01T01:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T01:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/?p=396"},"modified":"2019-07-09T21:27:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T21:27:51","slug":"content-and-configuration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/2019\/07\/01\/content-and-configuration\/","title":{"rendered":"Content and configuration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’re putting together the next issue of Gardner’s Beacon<\/a><\/strong> and got looking into this old issue. It has to do with ‘hats’ as they relate to roles. And, this implies lots that relate to cognitive issues. We’ll continue on this theme, which deals with whether there is an AI (or is it a chimera?). One sure hears a lot of discussion on this topic, again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well, we are reviewing what was done, to date, since we started our quest for understanding the origins of the U.S. with respect to the people involved. This includes family. But, let’s do the recap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having filled in Dr. Frank\u2019s entire tree<\/a><\/strong> and surveyed all of the material that we could find on the web, or get our hands on, with regard to Thomas Gardner and early New England, we are at the point where we can start to fill in what was left incomplete 100 years ago. One task will be to describe what we want to do, with an accompanying ToDo list. Wishes, even. Of course, priorities will be necessary. Getting prepared to support 400th celebrations will be one major theme. It\u2019s time to tackle documenting the first five or so generations starting with Thomas and Margaret. We need to summarize Cape Ann families. Some, like Conant, Balch, and Woodbury, have made a good start. We can settle issues related to how things went; on reading the literature, there are many stories, some of which conflict. And, that activity will help us look at origins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Briefly,\none can think of content as that which people want to read. For any content,\nthere are configuration issues that pertain to how it is developed and offered.\nThis got a little more complicated with the computer involved. There are two\nhats (despite McLuhan\u2019s take on the matter) that we have to balance. One might\neven talk more hats as technology progresses. Hence, this topic will be a\nrecurring theme for us and the TGS, Inc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides the Thomas Gardner page<\/a><\/strong>, there are several other pages on Wikipedia. One considers the house that was built at Cape Ann the first year using material brought by the crew. John Endicott had this dwelling moved to Salem. Rev. Higginson mentioned the \u2018faire\u2019 thing. John Winthrop was feted there on his arrival. Of course, John Winthrop wasn\u2019t pleased with the area and moved on. Salem became a wallflower? Another page deals with \u2018old planters\u2019 of which there are several types. Dr. Frank and friends started a group (named Old Planters Society) where the scope was those who entered New England prior to 1630 and who were not associated with the Mayflower group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In\nterms of publication, this is the ninth year of Gardner\u2019s Beacon which is our\nnewsletter and which we expect to produce several times a year. The Gardner\nAnnals is our research publication. Volume V of the TGA will publish this year.\nThe first four volumes of the TGA are in print mode with the first eight\nvolumes of Gardner\u2019s Beacon included. One can purchase a set with each print\nversion having two volumes of the TGA. With the coming issue of the TGA, we are\nconsidering printing all five volumes together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have published articles in The Essex Genealogist as well as via our own publication efforts. Some of our work has been suggested as being suitable for publication in the New England Historic Genealogical Society\u2019s Register<\/a><\/strong>, especially information about Margaret. We have printed the first four volumes of the TGA and expect to republish these in one volume that would be suitable for libraries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nhave extended requests for articles. As we look to document early generations,\nwe expect that this information will be written in a form that is suitable for\nan article. The Gardner Annals would present these for public consumption. Of\ncourse, part of our renovate will be introducing eBusyness capabilities. Lots\nof alternatives have been reviewed. I am still of the notion that we can roll\nour own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of which, issues related to configuration will be a constant. In our case, concurrent with the construction of the Wikipedia page, we started a blog to report about things that were found, read, and written about. We already had blogs dealing with economic and engineering concerns so a known process was used. The TGS blog was hosted on Blogger which was bought by Google. About the same time, we started a website, ThomasGardnerSociety.org, using the OfficeLive facility of Microsoft<\/a><\/strong>. One motivation was to enter the \u2018asp\u2019 world and enjoy its benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nall, Office had been incorporated in a lot of busyness and was being oriented\nto web publishing and on-line commerce. Lots of small businesses took the bait\nand built their future on the free offerings of Microsoft. Then, the plug was\npulled. We were told that the direction would now be Office 360.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\na quick review, the need to focus on content resulted in a configuration change\nthat fell back to stable web processes. For one thing, tables were the format.\nThen, menu options were provided via icon with attached links. It worked. However,\nas time went on, and content issues settled down, it was time to reconfigure.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About\nthen, a second blog was started with a focus on technology as there were many\ntopics to address. As a control, we watched another organization that paid a\ndeveloper to start a site for them. This was the 2012 timeframe where we had to\nget the kludged configuration to where content could be more easily managed.\nFor instance, Google announced that it wouldn\u2019t list any site that was not\nmobile friendly. So, that motivated some necessary changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\nmeant, put on the technology hat, again. Several web development systems were\navailable including WordPress. We looked at a few and did several prototypes.\nThis activity was all blogged. Well, the choice was to not use them and go with\nhtml\/css\/js. Turns out that many had made the same decision. Much to discuss\nthere. We helped a couple other groups do a minimal site. Then, moving to\nTGSoc.org allowed us a new look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns\nout that we are making a similar decision, again. Fortunately, those who find\nthis type of stuff interesting have made many updates available some of which\ncould be easily adopted. One choice has been to not do the general cloud but to\nrent server resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ninternet is a mess, quite frankly. Problems abound everywhere one looks. We are\ntrying to avoid potholes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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