[governance] New IGF community site

[Jeremy Malcolm]

A new Web site for the IGF community has just been launched at 
http://igf-online.net/ by the Online Collaboration Dynamic Coalition 
(ODCD), a bottom-up multi-stakeholder working group of the IGF.

The new site already hosts a number of useful resources including a 
community blog, wiki, calendar, chat and needs feeds, most of which were 
selected for their capacity to support multilingual usage.  It also 
features a specially-designed menu running along the top of most pages 
of the site, that links in external Web sites including the 
Secretariat's official Web site and that of the Rio hosts.

This new site for the Rio meeting and beyond supersedes last year's site 
(which, beset by hosting troubles, is currently inaccessible), and 
thanks to a sponsor's generosity now provides the IGF community with a 
dedicated server on which a large variety of online tools can be hosted 
without the limitations of a standard Web hosting service.

Members of the IGF community, including dynamic coalitions, are 
encouraged to begin using the new site now.  By registering (or logging 
in with your existing OpenID) you can begin posting on the community 
blog, adding events to the calendar, and entering information on the 
wiki.  Hosting of other content will be accommodated on request.

Volunteers are needed to help with translating the site's content into 
other languages, designing a complementary set of themes, and spreading 
the word.  Please contact me or the Online Collaboration Dynamic 
Coalition if you would like to help, have any trouble using the site, or 
have any new ideas for it.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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