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

[Ahmed Swapan Mahmud]

HI Jeremy

Thank you very much.

See you in Sharm.

Regards, Ahmed

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> 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  Although the OCDC is no longer active (for annoying but not relevant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.
>
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