[governance] Go Live - IGC New Website Launch Announcement

Thu Jul 25 09:46:33 EDT 2019

Thanks Bruna, I think an on-boarding page is an excellent idea. Happy to
work with you on this if that helps,

Best

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 14:38, Bruna Martins dos Santos <
governance at lists.riseup.net> wrote:

> Thank you so so much to all involved on this! Its absolutely thrilling to
> see the IGC website back to work!
> Adding to Arsène's point about membership approval, I would also have a
> concern on the website and IGC being GDPR compliant when listing the
> members names - we should give people the option of being listed, or not!
>
> Also, maybe we can add a - newcomers/onboarding - page, thinking of the
> BestBits or any other new member who end up joining our list. It would be
> important to have a more consistent place with the history of IGC and CS
> coordination and so on.. I can start collecting material on this, if
> everyone agrees.
>
> Best Regards,
> Bruna Santos
>
>
> Le jeu. 25 juil. 2019 à 09:54, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Thanks Arsène, for your comments and concerns.
>>
>> >Is there a process of approving (vetting or so) new members before they
>> can be added to the mailing list?
>>
>> Membership subscription is just added on the membership page, as
>> alternative to the previously referred page of registration. Assuming that
>> the subscription request will go through approval. If it is not activated,
>> may be arranged through the List administrator.
>> Thanking you for pointing out, I have removed it for a while until the
>> User Registration Page is developed and uploaded.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Imran Ahmed Shah
>>
>> On Thursday, 25 July 2019, 17:25:20 GMT+5, Arsène Tungali <
>> arsenebaguma at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Good job, team! Thank you very much for bringing our website back online.
>>
>> Is there a process of approving (vetting or so) new members before
>> they can be added to the mailing list? I do remember in the past Co co
>> were the ones approving new member's requests, I am hoping we can keep
>> it that way. It is said on this link
>> (https://igcaucus.org/membership/) that anyone who sends an email to
>> governance-subscribe at lists.riseup.net will be subscribed.
>>
>> Did you set it up so that this request goes to the Co-cos first? And
>> then have them approve the request before the member is added to the
>> mailing list?
>>
>> Just thinking out loud so will appreciate any leads on this to confirm
>> my thinking.
>>
>>
>> 2019-07-25 13:40 UTC+02:00, Imran Ahmed Shah <governance at lists.riseup.net
>> >:
>> > 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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>> >
>>
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>>
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