[governance] Draft Project Plan for Website Restoration/ Was IGC Website (Way Forward)

Fri Jul 19 16:38:09 EDT 2019

Ok.

Here is the suggested site map for the first stage:
1. About Us
2. IGC Charter
3. Join Us

As to the host, I can get a company to host us for free for one year.

Farzaneh

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:20 PM Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> 1.The website is independent of elections.
> 2.On a practical note, it would be good to have a technical co-lead,
> suggest Imran Ahmed.
> 3.Perhaps, Farzaneh, you can draft a site map and invite us to comment.
> 4.In the meantime, there should be a plan for content management which is
> where you will need both Technical and Content. To this end, I suggest we
> rope in Avri who volunteered to assist if called upon on the 19th July,
> 2019.
>
>
>
> Best Wishes,
> Sala
>
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, 6:13 pm farzaneh badii, <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Sala for being proactive.
>>
>> What I had in mind, for the sake of separating issues of website revival
>> and elections, was to bring IGC website back in stages. Of course we need
>> to have the members listed at some point on the website  but the revival of
>> the website should be kept separately and not dependent on elections etc
>> because otherwise we will be delayed.
>>
>> My suggestion would be (and as it is obvious I have no technical
>> knowledge whatsoever)
>>
>> For the moment,  restore the about us page ( disregard the sub-pages at
>> this stage), restore the IGC charter page, put a mailing list link and a
>> join us page up.
>>
>> When the About us, charter page, and join us page is ready, we are ready
>> we can go live. This I believe is relatively straight forward and can be
>> done quickly. unless you think there might be technical issues.
>>
>> Then we go to the second stage of gathering the most updated members'
>> list and create the other pages, gather archives etc.
>>
>> As to design and site map, I think we should just go with a simple design
>> that provides an accessible page for us so that people know who we are! I
>> think our old website design was good.
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20170115142628/http://igcaucus.org/about
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Farzaneh
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:28 AM ian.peter at ianpeter.com <
>> ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sala,
>>>
>>> earlier on Farzeneh suggested the concept of developing the new website
>>> in stages - I would like to see how she envisages this happening before
>>> commiting to any timetable. Perhaps a simple path forward like importing
>>> existing (still relevant) content and outline to a new basic site, and then
>>> looking at enhancements?  In any case I would like to see how Farzeneh
>>> suggests we proceed.
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> ------ Original Message ------
>>> From: "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
>>> To: "governance" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
>>> Sent: 19/07/2019 6:18:09 PM
>>> Subject: [governance] Draft Project Plan for Website Restoration/ Was
>>> IGC Website (Way Forward)
>>>
>>> Dear All.
>>>
>>> I have enclosed a Draft Project Plan to kickstart the process and be
>>> good for you all to see if the dates are doable. This is starting today and
>>> getting it ready by end of August with the view of observing for migration
>>> issues in September, 2019. For details, see Excel spreadsheet that is
>>> attached.
>>>
>>> For a bird's eye view:
>>>
>>> [image: Screen Shot 2019-07-19 at 8.15.21 PM.png]
>>>
>>> followed by Migration and website maintenance.
>>>
>>> [image: Screen Shot 2019-07-19 at 8.16.38 PM.png]
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Sala
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 6:39 PM Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
>>> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> We need to get cracking. Bruna, let us know if you have any further
>>>> comments. As you can see, you have support of people stepping up to help.
>>>> We need some more volunteers and be good to have some people who specialise
>>>> in graphics or are naturally artistic. I think we can start and people can
>>>> continue to volunteer and we just slide them in whilst working. Bruna can
>>>> oversee the work and a Website Project lead, report back to Bruna and the
>>>> community.
>>>>
>>>> If there are no pressing objections to the work, then we can start.
>>>>
>>>> *Suggested Timeline: 2 weeks*
>>>>
>>>> *Website Development Team*
>>>>
>>>> *Confirmed*
>>>>
>>>>    - Imran Ahmed Shah (technical)
>>>>    - Tapani Tarvainen  (technical)
>>>>    - Farzaneh Badii (technical)
>>>>    - Ian Peter  (content)
>>>>    - Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro (content)
>>>>
>>>> *Yet To Be Confirmed from suggestions*
>>>>
>>>>    - Avri Doria
>>>>    - Akinremi Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Confirmed Sponsor for Web Hosting:* Jeremy Malcolm
>>>>
>>>> *Suggested General Strategy*
>>>>
>>>>    - To create a Project Timeline
>>>>    - To develop a Site Map
>>>>    - To find archived information for the purposes of restoring these
>>>>    on the site
>>>>    - Develop a Technical Team and a Content Team
>>>>    - Once this is ready, can invite all former coordinators and
>>>>    members to comment
>>>>    - Launch the website
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> Sala
>>>>
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