<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:07 AM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><div><snip><br> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I'm guessing any web revamp will take quite some time, so we ought to focus on refreshing the info on the existing one. That'd be a good achievement to present in Beijing if possible. Replace the interest groups with teams, update the member list, etc.</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>I cannot speak for the entire e-Team, but why spend _any_ energy improving a site that should be decommissioned ASAP? If the EC will simply approve the VPS expenditure, I believe we could have the following implemented very quickly:<br>
<br>Content management platform [My suggestion: install an instance of Word Press, point <a href="http://ncuc.org">ncuc.org</a> to it, and use this as the public facing website for NCUC.]<br><br>Constituent relationship management platform [My suggestion: install CiviCRM <<a href="http://civicrm.org/go/features">http://civicrm.org/go/features</a>> and dump the member list (after cleaning) into it, making it the "official" membership registry going forward] <br>
<br>Email listserv platform [I believe we've already agreed to install Mailman]<br><br><br>We integrate these three components as we proceed, but I believe getting them up an running is a relatively small amount of work.<br>
<br>- B<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></div><div>BD</div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>