[governance] IGF Community Site updated for Baku

[David Allen]

Again, the greatest congratulations - and thanks - to Jeremy.  The IGF  
Community Site represents, in simple words, an extraordinary amount of  
work.  And, especially, it took really serious talent, to create.

Thanks, Jeremy.  A major contribution to the community.

David

On Oct 4, 2012, at 2:36 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> 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:
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.)
> 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 
> .
> 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!
>
> -- 
> Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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