[NCUC E-team] Ning migration

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:22:07AM -0500, Brenden Kuerbis (bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <
> ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:

> > Six weeks is a short time. I think we should be able to have
> > _something_ up by then, but whether we're able to migrate
> > everything we want from Ning so fast, I wouldn't bet on it.

> I think you'll be surprised how little actual content there is on
> the Ning site. Plus Ning makes it fairly painless to export what
> data we want to keep.

OK, if you say so. I have no experience of exporting stuff out of Ning.
Static pages should of course be easy but anything more structured
and dynamic may be harder.

> IMO, we can migrate the essential info in advance of Beijing (e.g.,
> blog posts, charter, officers), setup some static pages for each
> group (e.g., e-Team) and do the rest as we can.

Sounds good.

Does Ning make it easy to change the URL - say,
leaving the Ning site as old.ncuc.org for a while?
(If not I guess we can simply make a static mirror of it.
Might be good idea just for historical reasons anyway.)

> I think it'll be important to show publicly we've been working on
> this (in addition to sharing w/the Constituency all the work being
> done behind the scenes).

Yes.

> > Yes. On thing in particular I'd like to fix, like right now,
> > is the charter page linked from the Resources tab:

> Done.

Great, thanks! Now it at least doesn't stick out like a sore thumb
to any potential new member. :-)

> > Who's got the privileges to edit that - Brenden, Wilson?
> > (I don't think I do - at least I don't know how.)

> I've given you admin privileges as well.

Thanks.

> > We'll need to go over the Ning site anyway in preparation of
> > the migration

> AFAICT, the only possibly labor intensive part is if/how we migrate
> the member pages.

That was my initial guess, too. But as for "if", I would be very
reluctant to abandon them.

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Tapani Tarvainen