What's New
on the
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Web site



October 12, 2000: Put up html version of the Sept. Interchange.

October 10, 2000: Put up (1) pdf version of the Sept. Interchange, and (2) html version of the March Interchange.

September 26, 2000: Put in a page with a form for camping program alumni to fill out, at Josh's request. Also put in two announcements regarding the camping program.

September 24, 2000: Put in a link to Frederick Monthly Meeting web site.

September 23, 2000: Updated Schools page, based on a revised list from Annette Breiling and some checks with the FCE web site.

September 22, 2000: Finished the Summer Quaking Post by fixing the header to have clearer lettering. Also put in some more updates to Directory of Meetings pages.

September 18, 2000: Put up changes to the Directory of Meetings, from pages sent to me by Pam Tyng, in response to a mailing from Frank asking for corrections. Also, sometime in the last month, put up a "contact" page, with e-mail addresses.

September 11, 2000: Put up, for the first time, an issue of the Quaking Post, and made some minor adjustments to the RE page.

September 7, 2000: Completed modifications to enhance accessibility for visually impaired users. Checked with Cast's "Bobby" program (http://www.cast.org/bobby/), which ensures that all Priority 1 Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines have been satisfied. All pages (except the YF and YAF pages, which are maintained separately) meet these guidelines.

September 4, 2000 Removed notices of the memorial service for Barry Morley. Revised calendar

August 28, 2000: Updated page for FWCC gathering, and some references to it.

August 25, 2000: Finished revising the Directory of Meetings, O-Z. Joined site to Quaker WebRing.

August 23, 2000: Revisions to the "Contemplative Living for Servant Leadership" course page.

August 20-24, 2000: Added the Calendar page to the menu bar. Revised most of the remaining pages to the new design. Updated the calendar, the notice about Barry Morley's memorial service, and the RE page, and did cleaning up and verification of the html code on most pages. Took first steps to put site on the Quaker WebRing. Sent updates and additions to the list of monthly meetings at http://web.raex.com/~hbh/meeting.htm. (the majority of BYM monthly meetings were missing). Updated other listings of our site.

August 19, 2000: Revised Directory of Meetings for Meetings beginning with G-N. Several pages updated to the new design. Silent retreats page revised.

August 15, 2000: New design for the BYM Web site was installed. Features include (a) better groupings of pages for easier navigation, (b) a new Search capability that allows searching for pages in the BYM site that contain keywords or phrases that you specify, and (c) new menu bar that appears on major pages now (and will go on almost all pages eventually).

August 15, 2000: Revised Directory of Meetings for Meetings beginning with A-F.

August 7, 2000: A page was put up for the Southeast Regional Gathering of FWCC, hosted by BYM. Also, the calendar was revised, and a link to the Regional Gathering page was added. Notified FWCC Section of the Americas about our change of URL, as well as Yahoo (which still had some links to "igc.org/quaker"). Suggested that the Camping Secretary notify the QIC page of the correct URL for the Camping Program.
August 3, 2000: The Web Subcommittee (of the BYM Publications Committee) met at the Annual Sessions (following an interest group meeting), and approved the new design for the BYM web site. Some review by the Publications Committee is needed, and then it will go up. Also, Ann Marie Moriarty offered to review and edit pages for the web site, and she will review the pages with the major changes before they go up.

July 26, 2000: Counter for number of visits added.
July 19, 2000: This News page added. Primary purpose is to let users see what has changed since the last time they visited. Also helps Web Publishing Subcommittee keep track of the site. (Some dates are approximate; dates based on records of e-mail and a fallible memory.)
July 14, 2000: Spiritual Formation information updated.
July 13, 2000: June Representative Meeting Minutes and Guidelines for Released Friends put up on the site.
July 10, 2000: Web page for course "Contemplative Living for Servant Leadership" put up, replacing out-of-date QISL page.
July 9-18, 2000: Notified www.quaker.org of change of URL for BYM web site, notified them of two Friends schools with web sites hosted by BYM, notified them of change of URL for three meetings whose web sites are hosted by BYM, and notified them of 22 meetings in BYM which were not listed in their list of meetings.
July 9, 2000: Revised Young Friends pages installed, featuring many new photographs.
July 7, 2000: Notified FGC, FUM, and FWCC about change of URL for the BYM page. Also notified Yahoo! and MSN directly, and several other portals via Adweb
July 5, 2000: Revised info for Silent Retreats
June 9, 2000: New URL, new host.The URL for the BYM web site is now http://www.bym-rsf.org. (In other words, the "/quaker/" is no longer needed as part of our address.) If users who try the old address, They get a page that gives the new address, and they they are transferred to the new address in about 7 seconds.

The URLs of meetings and schools whose web sites are hosted at the BYM web site have been further simplified (for example, the URL for Gunpowder Monthly Meeting's web site is now
http://www.bym-rsf.org/gmm/ .)

The simplified URLs are partly a result of moving to a new host, Exario. We will be able to use these new URLs even if we move a new host. Our old host IGC, is changing its orientation, and phasing out its web hosting services.


June 1, 2000: Revised March Representative Meeting Minutes replaced original minutes.
May 6, 2000: March Representative Meeting Minutes put up.
April 27, 2000: Major update to Young Friends page installed.
April 23, 2000: Put new Inward Bound brochure up as a web page.
April 14, 2000:First Representative Meeting Minutes (for October 1999) put up on the site.
April 12, 2000: Young Adults page and revised calendar put up.
April 4, 2000: Interchange, new Young Friends pages, and 1999 BYM Epistle put up on the site.
March 2, 2000: Sandy Spring meeting gets its own domain name and moves their site away from the BYM site.

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