[governance] Go Live - IGC New Website Launch Announcement

[Norbert Bollow]

Great thanks to all who are involved in this!

Greetings,
Norbert


On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:40:27 +0000 (UTC)
"Imran Ahmed Shah" (via governance Mailing List)
<governance at lists.riseup.net> wrote:

> Dear IGC Members,
> 
> As you know, we were discussing about the immediate requirement of
> revival of the IGC website. There are volunteers from within the IGC
> (made up of technical and non-technical persons, some of whom are
> past coordinators) who have been working on restoration of the
> website during last few days. Jeremy Malcom has sponsored five years
> of hosting and I (under singed) Developed the Website. Contents are
> obtained from https://web.archive.org. This is a soft launch with
> soft edits on content to make them relevant. Broken links are
> removed. Comments are welcome. We believe that the website has to be
> maintained regularly, with periodic offsite-backups. Tapani Tarvainen
> is arranging offsite-backups. This dedicated team of volunteers
> consisting of Akinremi Peter Taiwo, Avri Doria, Farzaneh Badii, Ian
> Peter, Imran Ahmed Shah, Jeremy Malcolm, Salanieta T.
> Tamanikaiwaimaro and Tapani Tarvainen. Our Team leads for the
> restoration are Farzaneh and Imran.
> 
> We wanted to do a quick launch and work on bringing back the
> archives, mailing list and others over the time. The website
> https://IGCaucus.org has been revived with the minimal necessary
> requirements and now this Working Group of volunteers is working for
> its enhancement and completion. We also need to be able to place time
> triggers to differentiate between new members and old ones. This is
> archived information.
> 
> As you can see on the website, the membership list is not yet
> published. This is due to the fact that we need to work on an updated
> list of members, differentiate those who voted in the last elections
> and who have been members for over 2 months. This would need us to
> get involved with the matters related to elections which we think
> should be done in coordination with IGC coordinator and perhaps a
> group of volunteers who would like to help with organizing the
> elections.
> 
> The website is now open for comments. Please let us know your
> comments and suggestions.
> 
> 
> on behalf of
> [IGC Working Group for the Revival of Website]
> 
> Imran Ahmed Shah
> [President: IGF Pakistan, Youth IGF Pakistan, Urdu Internet Society]
>