[NCUC E-team] Website (member pages)

[William Drake]

On Jul 5, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:

> 
> I'm a bit skeptical of its value; you may have noticed
> there's very little on the old member pages.
> NCUC simply isn't big enough to form a social network
> site by itself.
> But some kind of member pages could be useful.

i sort of disagree.  I think the lack of usage had to do with a) the general disuse of the website---there really wasn't anything new there often., so it looked perfunctory, an after thought, and b) the lack of constituency level activity generally, as all policy discussion moved to ncsg-discuss etc.  IF we reboot a PC or some other process for aggregating member views on stuff before they become positions that we taken take into NCSG for SG adoption and promulgation, then UC becomes a more vibrant space for connecting with people with shared interests, ideas etc.  I do think people like this social function—In Diplo GigaNet, and other spaces that have member pages, and members can form links based on shared interests, people seem to value it and make the effort to at least have functioning page on themselves.  So rather than give up at the front end, I'd say let's see if we change the context this incents people to make more use of the thing.  If we announce hey new website go hang out your shingle there, that in itself will encourage a lot of folks, and make being a member less anonymous.
> 
> They would be especially useful if they could be synchronized
> with the member database, i.e., every member would automatically
> have a page with their basic info which they could update
> as needed and add things like photos or comments &c.
> No way that'll happen in time for Durban, though.

right but they could add their own, ja?
> 
> What comes to transferring old member pages, well, since
> we haven't yet even decided what plugin or whatever we'd
> use for such, it's a bit hard to predict timeframe either.
> But I'll wait to see what Brenden had in mind for the
> purpose, the migration may turn out not be hard at all.
> 
>> PS: any thoughts on the below, or can we go forward with it?
> 
> Looks good to me. Now that I'm at a real keyboard again
> rather than trying to type on a phone, I'll try to do
> something about that.

great thanks.  note RObin sent a link on SF vids, I've not looked.
> 
>> On Jul 1, 2013, at 9:56 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> Copying in Robin and Joly.  We're building http://new.ncuc.org/events/past-conferences-and-workshops.  Questions to you both below.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 1, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 29 10:19, William Drake (william.drake at uzh.ch) wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Past conf links mentioned yesterday, dug them up for 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> NCUC Policy Conference: ICANN & Internet Governance: Security & Freedom in a Connected World. Friday, 12 October 2012, Toronto
>>>>> 
>>>>> NCUC at ICANN: Internet Governance and the Global Public Interest, 11 March 2011, San Francisco 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Added those. Are they documented somewhere?
>>>> For now I just put in Youtube links.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for this Tapani.  But I really do think we should have a) the event titles with date & place, and separate links to b) the programs with speaker lists (e.g. the Amiando links I sent), c) videos, and d) for stuff done within formal ICANN programs, the transcripts.  Re: videos, there are multiple and varying per event sources available.  I believe the YouTube stuff you linked was shot and posted by Glen McKnight, who I understand may also be shooting our African School workshop in Durban.   Joly has stuff on the ISOC NYC site.  The Amiando sites seem to have selective links to some panels.  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So how about listing like this:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Workshop on,  "One World, One Internet?  New gTLDs & Competition in A Changing Global Environment," 10 April 2013, Beijing [at ICANN 46]
>>> Program 
>>> Video
>>> Transcript
>>> 
>>> Conference on, " ICANN and Internet Governance: Security and Freedom in a Connected World," 12 October 2012, Toronto [at ICANN 45]
>>> Program
>>> Video  [I'd use the listing Joly put up at ISOC NYC, it's complete better organized than what you get straight from YouTube]
>>> 
>>> Conference on, "NCUC @ ICANN: Internet Governance and the Global Public Interest," 11 March 2011, San Francisco [at ICANN 40]
>>> 
>>> Program
>>> Video  [Tapani, the link you had was to just 9 minutes of stuff Dee Dee posted to You Tube. I suspect the complete video archive exists somewhere.  Joly, all I can find on your site is http://isoc-ny.org/p2/1841 which links to the Amiando, which has no video; do you happen to have those somewhere?  Or Robin do you know if the vids are somewhere Google's not find for me?]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Also: I only know of these three events since I've only been in NCUC since 2009.  Did you folks do any events prior to that we should be listing?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Bill
> 
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William J. Drake
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  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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