Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Hark:Online F&P now in HTML--21st Century Quaker Alphabet soup

Update on the newest version of NPYM Faith and Practice: the version at npym.org is now instead
of a big ugly pdf with minimal navigation is a series of HTML files.That is MUCH easier for for RantWoman who will now finally go read the section of Faith and Practice on membership and releasing people from membership. Yes, you read that right: RantWoman did not think to ask anyone to do waht RantWoman would know how to do to get the requested info to RantWoman and no one thought to see that the info came to RantWoman.

Self-congratulatory digression: the NPYM webkeeper has been doing a great job of many things. RantWoman is proud: a few Annual Sessions ago in connection with another NPYM job transition,, RantWoman realized that webkeeper tasks were needed, realized that other staff were not going to do them, and realized there was room in the budget to do something. RantWoman has taken note of many important somethings that have occurred because of the decision to pay someone to be webkeeper.

Now back to the success of a more accessible online faith and Practice: The NPYM webkeeper, hired because RantWoman detected that the role of webkeeper is important and that important things were not going to happen without budget said he also put in a widget that RantWoman thinks is supposed to read the text aloud. RantWoman tried it the other night on the fly and something did not work; RantWoman has not gotten around to trying it again.

RantWoman will be curious to hear whether others find this mechanical reading helpful. RantWOman predicts not as helpful as a human voice but definitely invites readers to try it out and to opine.

In Light and Faithfulness

RantWoman.

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