[governance] Third (and final for now) phase of improvements to IGC website

[Deirdre Williams]

Thank you Jeremy :-)
Deirdre

On 2 August 2011 08:02, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> **
> I have just finished another major revamp of the IGC's website,
> incorporating almost all of the suggestions that members had made.  We now
> have:
>
>    - A calendar of events, which integrates with the one from the IGF
>    Community site at http://igf-online.net that has existed since 2007.
>    All IGF events are already added: see
>    http://www.igcaucus.org/calendar/2011-09.
>     - A new, modern theme (the old one was the Drupal default, making our
>    site look like thousands of others).
>     - Much nicer lists of members, with full names instead of usernames
>    (see http://www.igcaucus.org/list-members).
>     - Additional profile fields, including a long free text description,
>    and space to add your social networking and instant messaging contact
>    addresses.  Most of these synchronise with our membership database, making
>    the data available to other IGC Web applications.
>     - Resources added by members can now be free-tagged, and will be
>    listed chronologically and by tag on the resources page (see
>    http://www.igcaucus.org/resources).
>
> There are only two outstanding items that I am aware of:
>
>    - I haven't made the site multilingual, because this is something that
>    I can't do myself: it would require volunteers to translate the existing
>    content into each other language.  But in the future if such volunteers step
>    forward, it will be possible.
>    - I can't implement the planned single password on the mailing list
>    site (http://lists.cpsr.org/) and the IGC site (http://www.igcaucus.org)
>    without help from the CPSR people, whom I've only recently contacted about
>    this and am waiting to hear back from.
>
> Enjoy the improvements!
>
> --
>
> *Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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