[governance] Phase 2 of improvements to the IGC Web site

[Don Cameron]

Are we required to resubscribe to the list via the web interface or will
current memberships remain in place? - To be honest I have little interest
in blogging  (or bloggers) however am keen to remain on this list. May I
also reiterate that (hopefully) voting does not become a prerequisite for
membership of the IGC (or for that matter,  any other NGO) - or if this is
contemplated that mechanisms exist for members wishing to abstain without
losing membership rights.

 

Don 

 

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Subject: [governance] Phase 2 of improvements to the IGC Web site

 

Phase 2 of the improvements that I've been undertaking to the IGC Web site
are complete.  These include:

 

*	A single interface for subscribing to the list and registering on
the Web site, which also adds your details to an IGC membership database
(subject to eligibility).  I have fixed the LDAP errors that some people
encountered when registering, and made that the correct information is now
listed for everyone.
*	Everyone now has the ability to create personal blog posts
<http://www.igcaucus.org/blog>  directly on the IGC Web site.  The latest
headlines from these are listed on the front page.  To post to your blog,
just log in to the site and then click "Create content" in the left hand
column, then "Blog entry".
*	There is a new Resources page <http://www.igcaucus.org/wiki>  which
is editable as a wiki.  You can also upload documents there.  Instructions
are given on that page.
*	Click on the name of any contributor to the site (when you are
logged in), and you can see their profile, including their organisation and
Web site (if provided). Later, the list of members will also be hyperlinked
to member profiles.
*	There is a privacy policy <http://www.igcaucus.org/privacy> . Please
check this out to make sure that it is OK. If you have any changes to
suggest, please post them to the list.
*	Besides the Twitter feed that I added last time, headlines from
external Internet governance blogs are now also included in a column on the
front page.

*	I've moved the list of recent IGC statements to the centre column of
the Web site, to more clearly indicate that the centre contains official
resources and the right column contains feeds from the broader community.

 

There's a lot more that could be done, but that will do for now. Some help
is needed:

 

*	First and most importantly, we need a deputy Web administrator, who
can share the load of building and maintaining our Web and database
software, and take over from me when I'm unavailable.  Some knowledge of Web
content management software (Drupal and/or Wordpress) is desirable, and
knowledge of databases (SQL and/or LDAP) and languages (HTML and PHP or
Perl) would be beneficial too.
*	The Twitter and blog feeds could use with more diversity. At the
moment Twitter is just sourced from posts tagged "#igf".  If you have a
Twitter list that would be a better source of relevant posts than this, let
me know.  Also, if you have an Internet governance blog that should be added
to the feeds we are aggregating (a list of which is at
http://igf-online.net/gregarius), let me know.

 

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