[governance] Phase 1 of improvements to the IGC Web site

[Marilia Maciel]

Dear Jeremy,

Congratulations for the enhancements! And thank you very much.


Three suggestions and one concern follow below:

- On the "membership" section, it would be interesting to know a little more
about IGC members, where they are from, their organization, etc. This is
very important to our outreach strategy. We need to know who we are, so we
can evaluate who is missing. It would be easier to map the regions in which
our presence is strong and the ones we need to reinforce it, and to find
members that could help with outreach in their countries. A basic
questionnaire could be created, so the information about each member would
be uniform. New members could answer the questionnaire when they sign in to
the list. Current members would have to be asked to reply the questionnaire.

- It would be interesting to have an easy way to access to videos that are
important to IGC in an organized manner. Videos are an increasingly
important way to convey messages and to "tell our story" to future members.
There is good material in youtube already, while other videos (from IGF for
instance) need to be edited. If IGC members could contribute to this
resource pool of videos, it would be easier to make it grow. But we need to
have some way to classify them, so they can be retrieved more easily.

- It would also be interesting to have a "resource" section, of relevant
texts and documents made available by the members. But we need to archive
them in a coherent manner as well.

Now one concern. Although I think it is very useful to find our posts to the
IGC list  in IGC website and although and I agree that IGC discussions
should be transparent, I am worried that some strategic discussions we carry
out here on the list would be accessible by anybody. I don´t know, but maybe
our members will start to think twice before saying something, and we may
lose in some degree the frankness that has characterized the discussions on
the list.

I tend to believe that the content of e-mails sent to the list should only
be accessible to members, after they log in on the platform, but I would
very much like to hear other thoughts about it. Maybe when the blog section
is ready our members can choose what they want to post to the world and what
is internal conversation.


Happy holidays!


Marilia



On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> Phase 1 of the improvements that I've been undertaking to the IGC Web site
> are complete.  These include:
>
>
>    - Summary of posts to the governance list, recent Twitter posts, and
>    our most recent statements, appear on the front page.
>    - The Limesurvey polling software, and digress.it commenting software,
>    have both been moved to our own Web space, and links provided from our main
>    Web site (under "Statements").
>    - Coordinators no longer need to edit the "Statements" page to post
>    links to recent statements - if the "Statement" content type is used, they
>    appear listed there automatically in chronological order.
>    - Content has been re-organised, more logically, I think.
>    - Coordinators can edit in rich text.
>    - There is a search function.
>    - The back end has been upgraded to the latest stable version.
>
>
> Phase 2 of the improvements will be to add more interactivity to the site -
> blog space, wiki functionality, and hopefully to integrate Web site logins
> with the mailing list.
>
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