[NCUC E-team] Website revisions by Constituency Day?

[Kim Pham]

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