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

[Brenden Kuerbis]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:37 AM, 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.
>
> Brenden, any progress or ideas on this?


Sorry. There is a WP plugin for migrating the data, but I have not had
time this week to look at it.

But I generally concur with the opinion that the member profile data
we had was pretty poor quality (I believe Wilson has a copy of it so
you can review data file). Moreover, there was not much use of member
pages on the (to be) old site. IMO, importing old profile data into
the new site should not be a show stopper.

In fact, I would suggest engaging the membership for ideas about what
additional features would draw them to the new site before expending
serious effort.   Tapani (?) mentioned this, but one simple idea would
be to provide links to org and individual member websites on the
membership page. Ideally, it is populated by data collected during the
application, checkin process. I'm afraid relying on folks to populate
afterward hasn't worked.  Also, some sort of reliable, easy to use,
meeting and document authoring tool (like Google Hangout and the ether
pad) integrated into the website would be useful I think for fostering
interaction outside of ICANN events.  There may be other avenues we're
simply not considering for increasing social interaction among
members, lets ask them.


>
> Tapani
> (at Joburg airport after only 29 hours of travel so far...)
>
> 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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