Remote participation plans Re: [OCDC] Re: [governance] Do

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 03/06/2008, at 2:09 AM, Brenden Kuerbis wrote:

> It does, as best it can with the meager resources it has, but IMO it's
> in the wrong format. One way to make it more useful would be to
> utilize RSS more.  The Secretariat advertises a feed on the home page
> (http://intgovforum.org/igf_rss_feed.xml), but the last entry is
> December 8, 2007. Is there another feed(s) that isn't broken?

No there isn't a non-broken official feed.  There is a meta-feed of  
unofficial IGF-related resources at http://igf-online.net/gregarius  
that aspires to completeness, but could do with more source feeds.

> E.g., it sure would be nice to have an IGF events feed
> so I could create a widget that could be placed on someone's blog or
> website. Or it sure would be great if I had an IGF transcript feed so
> I could easily create audio files for podcasting.

Exactly, and even if these were not provided in RSS format, it would  
be sufficient that they were provided in some other open format such  
as a Web service that others could repurpose in the manner you  
describe.  (Brenden, please consider contributing to the early draft  
requirements document at http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/IGF_Virtual_Community 
, which I think you will find to be on your wavelength.)

I won't forward my off-list conversation with Chengetai Masango  
without permission, but the problem we run into is the Secretariat is  
willing to devote no resources to this.  The Rio meeting, for those  
privileged enough to make it, came with a seven-figure price tag, but  
for the majority of Internet users who cannot make it out of their  
home country, any investment above $0 is too much to justify.

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