<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info" target="_blank">ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:22:07AM -0500, Brenden Kuerbis (<a href="mailto:bkuerbis@internetgovernance.org">bkuerbis@internetgovernance.org</a>) wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <<br>
> <a href="mailto:ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info">ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Six weeks is a short time. I think we should be able to have<br>
> > _something_ up by then, but whether we're able to migrate<br>
> > everything we want from Ning so fast, I wouldn't bet on it.<br>
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> I think you'll be surprised how little actual content there is on<br>
> the Ning site. Plus Ning makes it fairly painless to export what<br>
> data we want to keep.<br>
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OK, if you say so. I have no experience of exporting stuff out of Ning.<br>
Static pages should of course be easy but anything more structured<br>
and dynamic may be harder.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Ning has an archive utility which allows you to selectively download data for each feature (e.g., Members, Blogs, etc.). This includes a json file and the associated media files (jpgs, pdfs, etc.). I'm downloading the content as we speak.<br>
<br>I've seen a Ning to WP import tool as well. <br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> IMO, we can migrate the essential info in advance of Beijing (e.g.,<br>
> blog posts, charter, officers), setup some static pages for each<br>
> group (e.g., e-Team) and do the rest as we can.<br>
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Sounds good.<br>
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Does Ning make it easy to change the URL - say,<br>
leaving the Ning site as <a href="http://old.ncuc.org" target="_blank">old.ncuc.org</a> for a while?<br></blockquote><div><br>I think we're stuck with <a href="http://ncuc.ning.com">ncuc.ning.com</a> (<a href="http://ncuc.org">ncuc.org</a> points to that URL). I guess we could keep the old site up and note that it is "old", but I think this will invite confusion.<br>
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(If not I guess we can simply make a static mirror of it.<br>
Might be good idea just for historical reasons anyway.)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br> I just assume build the new site, update the domain name, cut over and vanquish the old one to the dustbin!<br><br> <br>-- B<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> I think it'll be important to show publicly we've been working on<br>
> this (in addition to sharing w/the Constituency all the work being<br>
> done behind the scenes).<br>
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Yes.<br>
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> > Yes. On thing in particular I'd like to fix, like right now,<br>
> > is the charter page linked from the Resources tab:<br>
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> Done.<br>
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Great, thanks! Now it at least doesn't stick out like a sore thumb<br>
to any potential new member. :-)<br>
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> > Who's got the privileges to edit that - Brenden, Wilson?<br>
> > (I don't think I do - at least I don't know how.)<br>
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> I've given you admin privileges as well.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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> > We'll need to go over the Ning site anyway in preparation of<br>
> > the migration<br>
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> AFAICT, the only possibly labor intensive part is if/how we migrate<br>
> the member pages.<br>
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That was my initial guess, too. But as for "if", I would be very<br>
reluctant to abandon them.<br>
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Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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