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

Wed Aug 3 13:20:47 EDT 2011

Thank You Jeremy, APC, GreenNet and Sarah Escandor-Tomas and others who
helped in revamping the website. :) :) :)

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>wrote:

> 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
> > Project Coordinator*
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