In 1995 the Section Chair, Robert Mason, and other officers decided that the Section should have a home page as part of the home page effort just getting started at ASA. Ramón V. León was appointed chair of a committee to create this home page. The committee consisted of Ramón, Tom and Eileen Boardman, and Innis Sande.
Ramón proceeded to create a draft home page for the rest of the committee to react to. He followed the template then being suggested by the ASA home page committee. Tom and Eileen Boardman provided considerable comments on the organization and some of the initial content. Their comments lead to the present organization of the Q&P home page.
When the committee started working on the Q&P home page, we thought the Section home page would act as a newsletter that could be easily updated. Consistent with this newsletter paradigm, in 1996 responsibilities were divided along technical and content lines. Ramón was appointed head of the Q&P home page committee and webmaster responsible for technology while Tom and Eileen Boardman were named co-editors responsible for content.
As time passed it became clear that the newsletter analogy for the Q&P home page was inadequate. The Q&P web site was acting primarily as a "location" to "place" all the documentation being generated by the Section officers and committee members. In fact, the Q&P home page has become the "place" to find - among other things - the minutes of the last Q&P officers' meeting or conference call or to see a photograph of a Section officer and find his or her e-mail.
To reflect the "central-filing-system" function that the Q&P home page is fulfilling responsibility for the Q&P home page was changed to one in which the webmaster has responsibility for the overall organization and content while multiple editors have responsibility for different parts of the home page. So far the following editor have been named: William Parr is the "Q&P Links" editor. We are still looking for editors for other sections of the Q&P home page. There is also room for editors who want to volunteer around their ideas as to what should go into the home page.