[governance] Go Live - IGC New Website Launch Announcement

[Sheetal Kumar]

Congratulations! It's great to see the website back up!

Looking forward to getting more information about the members, including
current members and the process for vetting new members if there is one.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 13:33, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> 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]
> >
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