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

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear Jeremy

Looks good. Are IGC members now happy with having a formal membership
list? I am sorry if I was not able to follow that discussion.

IGC members might be interested to know that the APC servers (where the
IGC site is hosted) are looked after by GreenNet -
http://www.gn.apc.org/ - an APC member and an ethical internet service
provider based in London.

Thanks also to Sarah Escandor-Tomas, APC's techie based in the
Philippines who has provided Jeremy with support when he needed it - not
that he needs much :)

Anriette

On 02/08/11 14:02, Jeremy Malcolm 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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