DONE.

(Sept 13, 2003: Individual sites for chapter blogs already exist. There is some amount of work involved in copying over the templates. A new chapter owner emails the editor to create the desired website in the blog format. The editor creates the blog. One of the volunteers helps set the templates so the new chapter blog has the same look and feel as other sites. They also give the simple trackback ping URL the new chapter can use to have their new entires displayed on the main site).

It would be cool to give chatpers an expandable way to build up the itbhu.org stylesheet and templates.

Give them a basic stylesheet imported from the main itbhu.org style and allowing a chapter to overlay their own stylesheet as well as specify their logo and background gif's at well known URL locations the top stylesheet refers to.

Make available templates for index, category and entry that supports
simple chapter sites like http://www.itbhu.org/chapters/dept/cse/ -- while chapter sites using this will be blogified giving the advantage of quick launch, basic conformity of look/feel and links, it will also have an "unbloggish" look and feel.

With conventions for categories like "events" and "chapter news" ping back to update the main page, the chapter is lively incorporated in the main site with indirect ability to get their message out to all alumni.

DONE.

(Sept 13, 2003: Any alumni grouping can now become an ITBHU.org and organize itself under a chapter blog, or a website for that chapter. Examples are a specific class, a department, a geographic region or an initiative such as for the institute Library, Technex etc. Each chapter agrees to adhere to the operating guidelines for ITBHU.org as the California Public Benefit Corporation. There shall be NO affiliates of ITBHU.org.)

This goal focuses on an important aspect of the ITBHU.org charter that is being defined in parallel. ITBHU.org strives to be the umbrella organization to unite all such efforts.

Define the relationship with affiliates and provide links and information exchange with them. The relationship will include the process if such affiliates wish to leverage the ITBHU.org web site, its name server, web server and database server resources.

Define the relationship with chapters that may organize quasi-independently under geographical, departmental and class (for example, class of cse98) groupings. Define the process and hooks for the chapters to operate under the ITBHU.org website. They may start with their completely indendent site may gradually embed the ITBHU.org stylesheets and authentication tools.

Provide links to all excisting IT and BHU alumni organizations, sites, and earlier efforts at alumni listing.

We are looking for a volunteer to lead this working with one of the editors.

This is documentation in progress. It also serves as a placeholder for this action item.

The actual document has now moved under the Chapters FAQ.