<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Thank you so much Jeremy. This is a big undertaking</span></div><div><span>shaila </span></div><div> </div><style><!--filtered {font-family:"Comic Sans MS";panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";}filtered {margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}div.Section1 {}--></style><style><!--filtered {font-family:"Comic Sans MS";panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";}filtered {margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}div.Section1 {}--></style><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"></span></span><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;"><b style=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">The journey begins sooner than you anticipate !</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;"><b style=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">..................... the renaissance of composure
!<br></span></b></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroap.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> governance@lists.cpsr.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 2, 2011 5:02 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [governance] Third (and final for now) phase of improvements to IGC website<br></font><br><div id="yiv1838683443">
I have just finished another major revamp of the IGC's website,
incorporating almost all of the suggestions that members had made.
We now have:<br>
<ul>
<li>A calendar of events, which integrates with the one from the
IGF Community site at <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1838683443moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://igf-online.net">http://igf-online.net</a> that has existed
since 2007. All IGF events are already added: see
<a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1838683443moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.igcaucus.org/calendar/2011-09">http://www.igcaucus.org/calendar/2011-09</a>.<br>
</li>
<li>A new, modern theme (the old one was the Drupal default,
making our site look like thousands of others).<br>
</li>
<li>Much nicer lists of members, with full names instead of
usernames (see <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1838683443moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.igcaucus.org/list-members">http://www.igcaucus.org/list-members</a>).<br>
</li>
<li>Additional profile fields, including a long free text
description, and space to add your social networking and instant
messaging contact addresses. Most of these synchronise with our
membership database, making the data available to other IGC Web
applications.<br>
</li>
<li>Resources added by members can now be free-tagged, and will be
listed chronologically and by tag on the resources page (see
<a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1838683443moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.igcaucus.org/resources">http://www.igcaucus.org/resources</a>).</li>
</ul>
There are only two outstanding items that I am aware of:<br>
<ul>
<li>I haven't made the site multilingual, because this is
something that I can't do myself: it would require volunteers to
translate the existing content into each other language. But in
the future if such volunteers step forward, it will be possible.</li>
<li>I can't implement the planned single password on the mailing
list site (<a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1838683443moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://lists.cpsr.org/">http://lists.cpsr.org/</a>) and the IGC site
(<a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1838683443moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.igcaucus.org">http://www.igcaucus.org</a>) without help from the CPSR people,
whom I've only recently contacted about this and am waiting to
hear back from.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Enjoy the improvements!<br>
<br>
<div class="yiv1838683443moz-signature">-- <br>
<div style="margin-bottom:12pt;"><b><span style="color:black;">Dr
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