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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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<p style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><b>Dr Jeremy Malcolm<br>
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