[NCUC E-team] VPS

[Joly MacFie]

The workaround has to be to use confluence until the website is
happening. But it might be an idea to kill the ning and put up a brief
'about' page with a couple of links to salient pages on confluence.

j

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Edward Morris
<edward.morris at alumni.usc.edu> wrote:
>
> Stepwise refinement works for me.
> Lets not spend forever getting it right and pretty.
> Never works anyway.
>
>
> I totally disagree with this approach.
>
> As Tapani pointed out, we seem to be using a platform that was selected as a
> fast and easy temporary solution in 2003. I don't want to make the same
> mistake.
>
> Then, again, I take a more optimistic viewpoint in that I like getting
> things right and I find when I do so things do work.
>
> As for pretty: yes, guilty. Image matters. When you have a professional
> image people take you seriously. Perhaps unfair, but reality.  People want
> to join, people want to help, other groups are more willing to work with you
> when you appear to have a professional appearance.  When you have a
> cluttered website, a reputation of being disagreeable, you wind up, as I
> did, with a GAC member questioning my decision to become more involved in
> the NCSG by asking whether our members shower. Metaphorical, sure. I told
> him sometimes we even use soap. I'm not sure he believed me.
>
> I could give a flying leap about next week's meeting in Los Angeles in terms
> of building an e-presence. I agree with Wilson's suggestion during our
> meeting yesterday that subgroups be formed to explore all possibilities
> regarding platform issues. I agree with Brenden's suggestion that we need to
> sort out exactly we want, cost it, put it on paper and present it
> appropriately for approval. A professional approach for a revitalized
> constituency.
>
> We need to build our e-presence, not for the next week, but for the next
> decade. Do it right now and then we can focus more on representing our
> constituents in ICANN, and less on introspection and institutional
> development. That would be a good thing.
>
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