<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Again, the greatest congratulations - and thanks - to Jeremy. The IGF Community Site represents, in simple words, an extraordinary amount of work. And, especially, it took really serious talent, to create.<div><br></div><div>Thanks, Jeremy. A major contribution to the community.</div><div><br></div><div>David<br><div><br><div><div>On Oct 4, 2012, at 2:36 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Some of you may remember the IGF Community Site at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://igf-online.net">http://igf-online.net</a>, which since 2007 has been the only volunteer-run community portal for IGF participants. It continues to offer facilities that don't exist on the official website, and which are freely available for anyone to use.<br> <br> Its most useful facility is a page for each and every IGF event, which contains a link to a dedicated chatroom and wiki page for the event, lists the hashtags to be used on other social media sites (with a one-click Twitter search), and provides the ability for participants to leave links and comments.<br> <br> In addition there is a subscribable calendar, a community wiki, community blog, feed aggregation, chat server, and a multilingual, embeddable menu bar that links all the official and community IGF resources together. All the software used to provide this is 100% free and open source.<br> <br> Here is a quick walkthrough which highlights the features of the site:<br> <ol> <li>Begin at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://igf-online.net/">http://igf-online.net/</a>. The menu bar that runs across the top links you to all the official and community resources you need for IGF 2012. If it's not in your preferred language, try switching to French, Spanish or Russian from the Language menu.</li> <li>Click "Calendar", which will take you to the IGF week by default. If you like, switch from "Week" to "Day" view using the controls on the right hand side. You can subscribe to the calendar in software such as iCal, Google Calendar or Sunbird using the "Subscribe" link.</li> <li>Click on any event displayed in the calendar, then click again on the link in the small window that opens up, to load up a blog page for that event. As you'll see, listed here are the official workshop description, links to the wiki and chat pages for the event, and its hashtags.</li> <li>You can contribute information about the event (such as a report, feedback, or questions) by simply replying to the event blog post, or by editing the linked wiki page. (If you want to be sure the event organisers see what you write, drop them an email pointing them to it too.)</li> <li>In either case, you'll need to log in to the blog or wiki before posting to it. The easiest way to do that is with an OpenID. If you have a Google or Yahoo account, you already have an OpenID! If not, there are many places to sign up for one - see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openid.net/get-an-openid">http://openid.net/get-an-openid</a>.</li> <li>If you have a blog of your own, drop me a link to it - I'll add it to the aggregated RSS feed which is available under the "Feeds" link from the "Info/Wiki" menu bar. If you don't have one, blog on the Community Site itself! Just click "+ New" at the top of the page once logged in.</li> </ol> I hope that this has given you a flavour for just how useful this resource can be - and it will only become more useful as more people begin to use it. So please also blog, tweet, link to and tell as many people as you can about the IGF Community Site. Hope to see your contributions there soon!<br> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br><p style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><b>Dr Jeremy Malcolm<br> Senior Policy Officer<br> Consumers International | the global campaigning voice for consumers</b><br> Office for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East<br> Lot 5-1 Wisma WIM, 7 Jalan Abang Haji Openg, TTDI, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br> Tel: +60 3 7726 1599</p><p style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><b>Your rights, our mission – download CI's Strategy 2015:</b> <a href="http://consint.info/RightsMission">http://consint.info/RightsMission</a></p><p style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">@Consumers_Int | <a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org">www.consumersinternational.org</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/consumersinternational">www.facebook.com/consumersinternational</a></p><p style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#999999">Read our <a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org/email-confidentiality" target="_blank">email confidentiality notice</a>. Don't print this email unless necessary.</p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>