Here are the draft guidelines that Pamela Moore (Arch Street) and Philip Jones (Chestnut Hill) drew up in response to the request of the Quarterly Meeting. Please send comments and suggestions for improvement to or .
Philadelphia Quarter has adopted the following guidelines for publishing information to its Web page:
The primary objectives of this Web site are:
to provide members of Philadelphia Quarter of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends with interactive access to information about the Society of Friends, especially in Philadelphia Quarter;
to provide those outside Philadelphia Quarter access to information about the activities of the member meetings and institutions within Philadelphia Quarter.
Use of the Web site may include, but is not limited to, the following types of information:
Activities of monthly meetings within the Quarter
Quaker-related activities of members of the monthly meetings
A calendar of activities of broad interest in all of the monthly meetings
Member meetings are responsible for posting updated information in the Philadelphia Quarter Friends calendar in Yahoo Groups.
If a listed event should be deleted (e.g., it is cancelled or postponed), the Web contact from the Meeting involved is responsible to modify the posting in the calendar.
Information about, and links to, the institutions under the care of the Quarter
Links to Web-based information and resources within and outside PQM that are or might be of interest to Friends (e.g., PYM, www.quaker.org, WILPF)
The PQM Web site uses graphics and photos in moderation. When graphics appear, they are always tagged with alternate text to facilitate access by users with special needs.
Inappropriate use of the PQM Web site may include but is not limited to the following types of uses:
Any post for commercial purposes or for personal profit.
Any post involving copyright and licensing violations. Note that creative works (text, music, pictures, graphics, etc.) are automatically protected by copyright. "Public Domain" or "Freeware" is a status of a work that is not protected by copyright. Unless the originator of the work states the items are being placed in the "public domain" or grants permission for their display on this Web site, such works are not posted.
Any post that constitutes plagiarism.
Any post that makes libelous or slanderous statements.
Any material that could be considered defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, offensive, or illegal language, or in any way antithetical to the testimonies, principles and practices of the Religious Society of Friends.
Information that breaches confidentiality (personal contact information such as home addresses, phone numbers, beeper numbers, etc)
Waste of computing resources or unfair monopolization of resources to the exclusion of others.
This page last updated 21 January 2005.