[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Tijani BEN JEMAA]

Jeremy,

 

I registered as you asked, and now, I received the username and the
password. I noticed 3 anomalies:

*         Under “organization”, there is a name that I don’t know, and that
is not the name of my organization

*         Under “Home page”, there is an URL which is my organization one

*         Under “History”, it’s mentioned that I’m member since 10 hours or
so. Does it mean that I’m now considered a new member of the IGC?

 

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De : governance-request at lists.cpsr.org
[mailto:governance-request at lists.cpsr.org] De la part de Jeremy Malcolm
Envoyé : mardi 4 janvier 2011 02:35
À : governance at lists.cpsr.org
Cc : Roland Perry
Objet : Re: [governance] New membership database: choose your own username

 

On 03/01/2011, at 8:15 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

 

> On 02/01/2011, at 10:40 PM, Roland Perry wrote:

> 

>> Having registered and validated (an extra step not mentioned above) it
then says the account has to be "authorised". Which is perhaps why...

 

I've just noticed I'm missing some emails (my work email address has been
down), in which people are expressing a couple of concerns that I need to
address.

 

First, there is no change to the criteria for IGC membership.  The
requirement for registration applications to be approved by an administrator
is inherent in the software that we are using.  There is no discretion on my
part to refuse applications (perhaps except for obvious spam registrations,
of which there have been none so far).  If it's a big concern, probably we
could amend the software to remove the requirement for administrator's
approval.

 

Second, the list has not moved.  But the list does not have all the
facilities we need for a membership database, and neither does our Web site.
So what I've done is to create an LDAP database on a third server
(igf-online.net) which the other two servers (lists.cprs.org and
www.igcaucus.org) use to access the list of IGC members.  Ideally, we would
have our own dedicated server which would host all these facilities... but
we have no funding, so we are reliant on the generosity of sponsors.

 

I'm happy to address any other concerns as they come up.

 

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Jeremy Malcolm

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Consumers International

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