[NCUC E-team] When to go public with new site?

Wilson Abigaba wilson at isoc.ug
Fri Jul 12 17:32:18 CEST 2013


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <
tapani.tarvainen at effi.org> wrote:

> Ack. Let's see what we can manage. (One day offline, a small deluge of
> messages waiting...)
>
> Wilson, I trust we'll find an hour or two to work on this together in
> Durban.
>

Sure, the whole of tomorrow (especially starting early afternoon) and
Sunday are fine with me.


>  Brenden, any progress or ideas on this?
>
> Tapani
> (at Joburg airport after only 29 hours of travel so far...)
>

hmmm.. traveling from mars?


>
> William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> kirjoitti:
>>
>>  Ok so let's not show stop but we can point out that adding pages will
>> be an option, if it will.
>>
>> Joly I sent info on the Wednesday session to ncuc-discuss a few days back.
>>
>> Greetings from an intense night meeting at the African School on IG.
>>
>> BD
>>
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I'd even say the current member pages in Ning are more
>> of an embarrasment than anything else. Most of them have
>> no content whatsoever, and only a handful have anything
>> more than a profile photo. And we can always leave them in
>> place under "icann-ncuc.ning.com" and link there, if you want.
>>
>> I understood Brenden was planning to try some
>> member page plugin. If we can get one up and the
>> pages migrated quickly, I'm happy with that.
>> But I wouldn't make it a showstopper at this point.
>>
>> Tapani
>>
>> On Jul 09 04:43, Joly MacFie (joly at punkcast.com) wrote:
>>
>> I think in some cases less is more. Espe! cially if the current site is
>> out
>>
>> of date. I'd say go for it.
>>
>> In an earlier mail I questioned the inclusion of the NCUC Policy
>> Conference
>> in the NCSG google calendar. This was because I'd had no other notice so
>> thought it had been again displaced.
>>
>> Glenn McKnight just informed me he will be streaming it - I presume
>> through
>> the ISOC new livestream channel though I am yet to see a slot reserved,
>> but
>> the server is free. That might be something to feature I guess, embedding
>> is possible.
>>
>> Is there a url for further info on this event?
>>
>> j
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
>> wrote:
>>
>> but still no members pages?  So what we show them will be less than what
>> they had before?
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info>
>> wrote:
>>
>> What do you all think, when should we move the URL www.ncuc.org
>> from Ning to the new site?
>>
>> I'd been thinking of doing it just in time for Constituency Day,
>> but it might actually make sense to do it earlier but without
>> much fanfare, maybe just a blog entry about it, leaving
>> "official" opening and festivities for CD.
>>
>> Why? Because I see little point in directing people to the old site
>> anymore, in particular as we'd like (or we should) blog about events
>> in Durban it'd be better to put them to the new site directly.
>> Otherwise we have to duplicate all messages on both sites (either in
>> real time or by migrating them to the new one one by one).
>>
>> It is already better than the old site, almost good enough to go
>> public, IMHO - I just fixed the links in the slideshow, there's very!
>> little really broken left (mainly the Policy link at bottom center).
>>
>>
>
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