[governance] IGF Community Site updated for Baku

[Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google]

This is excellent! Keep up the great work Jeremy!

Rgds,

Tracy

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> 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:
>
>    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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