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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Are we required to resubscribe to the list via the web interface
or will current memberships remain in place? – To be honest I have little
interest in blogging (or bloggers) however am keen to remain on this list. May
I also reiterate that (hopefully) voting does not become a prerequisite for membership
of the IGC (or for that matter, any other NGO) - or if this is contemplated
that mechanisms exist for members wishing to abstain without losing membership
rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> governance-request@lists.cpsr.org
[mailto:governance-request@lists.cpsr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Malcolm<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 8 January 2011 9:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> governance@lists.cpsr.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [governance] Phase 2 of improvements to the IGC Web site<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Phase 2 of the improvements that I've been undertaking to
the IGC Web site are complete. These include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>A single interface for subscribing to the list
and registering on the Web site, which also adds your details to an IGC
membership database (subject to eligibility). I have fixed the LDAP
errors that some people encountered when registering, and made that the
correct information is now listed for everyone.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>Everyone now has the ability to create <a
href="http://www.igcaucus.org/blog">personal blog posts</a> directly
on the IGC Web site. The latest headlines from these are listed on
the front page. To post to your blog, just log in to the site and
then click "Create content" in the left hand column, then
"Blog entry".<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>There is a new <a
href="http://www.igcaucus.org/wiki">Resources page</a> which is
editable as a wiki. You can also upload documents there.
Instructions are given on that page.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>Click on the name of any contributor to the site
(when you are logged in), and you can see their profile, including their
organisation and Web site (if provided). Later, the list of members will
also be hyperlinked to member profiles.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>There is a <a
href="http://www.igcaucus.org/privacy">privacy policy</a>. Please check
this out to make sure that it is OK. If you have any changes to suggest,
please post them to the list.<o:p></o:p></li>
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mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>Besides the Twitter feed that I added last time,
headlines from external Internet governance blogs are now also included in
a column on the front page.<o:p></o:p></li>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'>I've moved the list of recent IGC statements to
the centre column of the Web site, to more clearly indicate that the
centre contains official resources and the right column contains feeds
from the broader community.<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal>There's a lot more that could be done, but that will do for
now. <span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Some help is
needed:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>First and most importantly, we need a deputy Web
administrator, who can share the load of building and maintaining our Web
and database software, and take over from me when I'm unavailable.
Some knowledge of Web content management software (Drupal and/or
Wordpress) is desirable, and knowledge of databases (SQL and/or LDAP) and
languages (HTML and PHP or Perl) would be beneficial too.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>The Twitter and blog feeds could use with more
diversity. At the moment Twitter is just sourced from posts tagged
"#igf". If you have a Twitter list that would be a better
source of relevant posts than this, let me know. Also, if you have
an Internet governance blog that should be added to the feeds we are
aggregating (a list of which is at <a
href="http://igf-online.net/gregarius">http://igf-online.net/gregarius</a>),
let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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