If we are going to renew the Bike Board, I don't see why it can't be under morgantownwv.gov. As to meeting, I could be available next week sometime. I'm personally not comfortable meeting in person, so online would be good.
Barry Wendell 7th Ward Councilor
________________________________ From: Jesse Heady jesse@heady.name Sent: Monday, October 5, 2020 6:12 PM To: Drew Gatlin jgatlin@morgantownwv.gov Cc: Bike Board bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com Subject: [Bikeboard] Re: Help! Website + Riverfront Bike Parking - Assessment + Meeting?
Hi Drew,
Regarding the website, although I don’t currently represent an NPO (in context to this ask anyway), I’m willing to help with cost and labor of migrating the domain and hosting as necessary for a year to give time for the board to do what they want to do longer term. It could be transferred anytime at will also.
This may alleviate any concerns but certainly also having NPO or maintaining as a sub-site of city is up to members of the board. There may be others willing to do so as well, I cannot speak for them.
The domain appears to expire Dec 7 so there is still some time to figure out logistics if it is migrated to another registrar. I’m happy to provide assistance as well if needed in the process, regardless of managing technical aspects directly.
Sincerely, Jesse
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 4:49 PM Drew Gatlin <jgatlin@morgantownwv.govmailto:jgatlin@morgantownwv.gov> wrote: Hello BikeMorgantown!
A few things:
First, I need the help of your expert minds! We need to perform a comprehensive assessment of the bike parking along the Morgantown Riverfront. A decent amount of inventorying has already been performed using RackSpotter.com. However, this did not include the following, which we need:
1. Comments on each of the existing bicycle parking locations * Is it enough? * Is the rack design satisfactory? * It necessary, or is it chronically underutilized? 2. Identification of areas that lack any current bike parking and need installation of new parking
Please let me know if you would like to be part of this project, and if so, how you would like to be involved. Final expected product would be: a map and/or document ID'ing all existing locations and needed locations with the above information. You could probably do this entirely in RackSpotter, but we don't have easy access to the database to manipulate the presentation of the data.
Second, www.bikemorgantown.comhttp://www.bikemorgantown.com is up for renewal. You have a few options:
1. Ask the city to pay to renew the domain 2. Abandon the domain and incorporate the content onto the morgantownwv.govhttp://morgantownwv.gov website 3. Allow the domain to lapse entirely 4. Request that the city transfer the domain to some separate entity (would need to be a nonprofit, I think)
Some considerations for the website:
1. If you wish to have the city pay to renew the domain, you need to articulate why maintaining the website is a "need" - we continue to be in a spending freeze 2. In 2018, the board drafted a new website for BikeMorgantown but never pulled the trigger: https://bikemorgantown.wixsite.com/home 3. During that time, they unpublished most existing content from www.bikemorgantown.comhttp://www.bikemorgantown.com/ 4. If we kept the existing domain, we would need to map the new content to it. 5. If transferred to pages within morgantownwv.govhttp://morgantownwv.gov, it's likely that we will need to build several sub-pages.
Third, we have a few people interested in joining the bike board. We should meet. Can someone throw out a day/time as a suggestion? I would prefer by the end of next week.
Hope you're all well! Drew
J. Drew Gatlin
Staff Engineer
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Morgantown, WV 26505
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