[governance] A really useful resource for those at the IGF

[Jeremy Malcolm]

One of the suggestions made at the September consultation, by Mr  
Narani of India, was that there should be a downloadable calendar of  
events that people can load into their calendar software of choice.

In fact, a little-known fact is that this already exists.  It is a  
resource that was initiated by the Online Collaboration Dynamic  
Coalition back in 2007.  Although the OCDC is no longer active (for  
annoying but not relevant reasons), I have been continuing to update  
the IGF Community Site that it developed at http://igf-online.net,  
including the calendar.

You can access the calendar either on the Web here:

   http://igf-online.net/phpicalendar/

or (even better) import this open-standard iCalendar file into your  
own calendar software, such as iCal, Sunbird, Lightning, Google  
Calendar, Evolution and others:

   http://igf-online.net/?ec3_ical

Other things that you can do with the IGF Community Site at http://igf-online.net 
  include:

* Register on the Wordpress blog at http://igf-online.net and post  
blog entries in a central location that may be better-known and  
indexed than your personal blog;

* Alternatively, make sure that your personal blog is aggregated in  
the IGF blog aggregator at http://igf-online.net/gregarius;

* Use the wiki at http://wiki.igf-online.net/ - although mostly empty,  
this is still quietly used by a few including the Privacy Dynamic  
Coalition (see http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/Privacy);

* Join an IRC chat forum (#igf on chat.freenode.net - there's a Web  
interface for it on the site);

* All pages at http://igf-online.net share a common multilingual link  
bar across the top, that links to all the known official and  
unofficial online resources for the IGF.

-- 
JEREMY MALCOLM
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