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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I can help out with these additional tasks if need be, since I am not going to Beijing.</div><div><br></div><div>Kim</div><div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 10:53:02 +0300<br>> From: ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info<br>> To: e-team@lists.ncuc.org<br>> Subject: Re: [NCUC E-team] Website revisions by Constituency Day?<br>> <br>> On Apr 03 14:24, William Drake (william.drake@uzh.ch) wrote:<br>> <br>> > if whatever web presence we will have as of Constituency Day could<br>> > have an accurate listing of members and replace the old Groups that<br>> > are all dead with the Teams which are somewhat variably alive, that<br>> > would be very cool.<br>> <br>> > I'm wondering if someone with more bandwidth and tech facility than<br>> > me (Tapani and Ed I understand you'll be flying together? ;-)<br>> <br>> So it seems, but I suspect bandwidth from the plane may be somewhat<br>> limited. :-)<br>> <br>> How bad is the bandwidth situation in Beijing?<br>> <br>> > Here's my short list of top priorities.<br>> <br>> I'm seriously busy today and leaving for Beijing tomorrow.<br>> I don't expect to get much done before that, but I will try<br>> to do some final fixes to membership data (remove Olga and Sarah<br>> at least) and fire up the ncuc-discuss list.<br>> <br>> I don't know how much I'll be able to do while in Beijing<br>> (not much if VPS and ssh are totally blocked, I fear,<br>> but I'll try to set up a few alternatives).<br>> <br>> > Front Page.<br>> <br>> Brenden & Wilson,<br>> <br>> What's the status with Wordpress?<br>> Can you get it to somewhat presentable shape in time?<br>> <br>> Otherwise, we still need to deal with Ning, and again it's<br>> up to you two for now.<br>> <br>> > Membership Roster. http://ncuc.org/page/membership-roster This<br>> > somehow is now under Governance rather than Participate. Might be<br>> > good to put it back? More importantly, is there any way we could get<br>> > something more recent than "Last updated 14 November 2012" up there?<br>> <br>> Best data we have is on the new site, it could be imported to Ning<br>> or linked to from there (though then some prettyfication would be nice):<br>> http://ncuc1.ncuc.org/members/<br>> <br>> If you want more data on the members you can use the phppgadmin<br>> viewer account, or let me know what you want and I can create<br>> similar ugly reports (or csv files) easily enough.<br>> <br>> > Member Teams (what I'd call them, anyway)<br>> > http://ncuc.org/page/working-teams. This now under Participate<br>> > rather than Governance, which would make more sense to me, but<br>> > anyway:<br>> <br>> > *The first thing that jumps out at me is that in some cases the<br>> > lists of team members are shorter than the actual lists of team list<br>> > subscribers. There's no need to underplay the level of member<br>> > engagement...<br>> <br>> > *Second thing: while some teams have been slow to get going,<br>> > eventually each will have content, activities to report. So why not<br>> > create separate pages for each team, linked to this main page?<br>> > Each could have a one sentence descriptor for now at the top saying<br>> > what the team's about, the list of participants, the link to the<br>> > mailing list, and then any docs/records of activity.<br>> <br>> As a starting point, how about just a link to the mailing list?<br>> Participants can be found there as well (although only as email<br>> addresses rather than names, ugly).<br>> <br>> > *Since there's been no mail yet but we will try to start in the next<br>> > quarter, Tapani would it be possible to rename the team and list<br>> > Bylaws Revision rather than Charter?<br>> <br>> Renaming the charter mailing list you mean? Sure.<br>> For technical reasons there should be no space though, so<br>> it'd have to be either "bylaws" or "bylaws-revision" or similar.<br>> Would "bylaws" be OK? It'd be usable later for interpretation<br>> debates &c after revision is (at least temporarily) done.<br>> <br>> > I'm not sure how I screwed that up<br>> <br>> Maybe because "charter" is what used to be in the Ning site...<br>> (seems to have gone now, presumably thanks to Brenden).<br>> <br>> > *With the old Interest Group pages participants with personal member<br>> > pages would show up in the groups. Is that no longer possible?<br>> <br>> It should be possible once we get the new (Wordpress-based) site<br>> up to speed, but probably not before Beijing.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Tapani Tarvainen<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> E-team mailing list<br>> E-team@lists.ncuc.org<br>> http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e-team<br></div></div> </div></body>
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