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

[William Drake]

Groovy, please do!

On Apr 4, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Kim Pham <k.pham at outlook.com> wrote:

> 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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