[governance] IGF Community Site updated for Baku

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Some of you may remember the IGF Community Site at
http://igf-online.net, which since 2007 has been the only volunteer-run
community portal for IGF participants.  It continues to offer facilities
that don't exist on the official website, and which are freely available
for anyone to use.

Its most useful facility is a page for each and every IGF event, which
contains a link to a dedicated chatroom and wiki page for the event,
lists the hashtags to be used on other social media sites (with a
one-click Twitter search), and provides the ability for participants to
leave links and comments.

In addition there is a subscribable calendar, a community wiki,
community blog, feed aggregation, chat server, and a multilingual,
embeddable menu bar that links all the official and community IGF
resources together.  All the software used to provide this is 100% free
and open source.

Here is a quick walkthrough which highlights the features of the site:

 1. Begin at http://igf-online.net/.  The menu bar that runs across the
    top links you to all the official and community resources you need
    for IGF 2012.  If it's not in your preferred language, try switching
    to French, Spanish or Russian from the Language menu.
 2. Click "Calendar", which will take you to the IGF week by default. 
    If you like, switch from "Week" to "Day" view using the controls on
    the right hand side.  You can subscribe to the calendar in software
    such as iCal, Google Calendar or Sunbird using the "Subscribe" link.
 3. Click on any event displayed in the calendar, then click again on
    the link in the small window that opens up, to load up a blog page
    for that event.  As you'll see, listed here are the official
    workshop description, links to the wiki and chat pages for the
    event, and its hashtags.
 4. You can contribute information about the event (such as a report,
    feedback, or questions) by simply replying to the event blog post,
    or by editing the linked wiki page.  (If you want to be sure the
    event organisers see what you write, drop them an email pointing
    them to it too.)
 5. In either case, you'll need to log in to the blog or wiki before
    posting to it.  The easiest way to do that is with an OpenID.  If
    you have a Google or Yahoo account, you already have an OpenID!  If
    not, there are many places to sign up for one - see
    http://openid.net/get-an-openid.
 6. If you have a blog of your own, drop me a link to it - I'll add it
    to the aggregated RSS feed which is available under the "Feeds" link
    from the "Info/Wiki" menu bar.  If you don't have one, blog on the
    Community Site itself!  Just click "+ New" at the top of the page
    once logged in.

I hope that this has given you a flavour for just how useful this
resource can be - and it will only become more useful as more people
begin to use it.  So please also blog, tweet, link to and tell as many
people as you can about the IGF Community Site.  Hope to see your
contributions there soon!

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*Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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