[NCUC E-team] SIGs

[William Drake]

Hi

On Jan 16, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Brenden Kuerbis <bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org> wrote:

> Comment inline.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:59 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Of relevance for any interested ET folks:
>>> 
>>> http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-ec/2014-January/001050.html
>>> 
>>> and related threads.
>> 
>> 
>> from that msg
>> 
>> The biggest loss in my mind in the transition from the ning was the deletion
>> of the social networking function that allowed members to create pages
> 
> Maybe something like this <http://1net.org/supporters> would be
> adequate? It would take care of the "here's me" part. Importantly, it
> would be self-initiated, and never look dusty, as it has nothing more
> than a picture and link to their own content (which I assume people
> have more incentive to maintain).

Self-initiated is good, but someone presumably has to check that the people putting stuff up are actually NCUC members and not posting questionable stuff.   I agree that posting links to own materials elsewhere is better than having stuff be posted and forgotten on the site.
> 
> 
>> and
>> create/join groups.
> 
> At this stage, I'd agree with Joly. I.e., create group specific
> mailing lists as requested

Like we do now for teams.  Not sure listservs inspire interaction and group identity the same way a social net does, so they may never take off.  And it requires someone like you guys administering, yes that’s obviously an option.

Thanks

Bill
> and archive them so members can access
> them.  Eventually, if there is demand, maybe we provide other
> communication tools and archiving.
> 
> -- B
> 
>> You’ll note for example the recent thread on
>> ncuc-discuss about Interest Groups, in which several African colleagues said
>> they’d like to join an IG on IG4D.  We have no means now to just create
>> groups for people who want to work together on issues, and no way for
>> members to say “here’s me.”  I don’t know if there’s anything that can be
>> done about that, but would like to hear from folks who are site enabled.
>> And if the answer is nothing, then alternatives to consider…
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Surely it would not to be hard to kick up a mailman list and a homepage on
>> the site. SIG admins could get "contributor" rights on the WordPress and
>> perhaps a category?
>> 
>> Another way might be just to set up p2 wordpresses for the individual
>> groups.
>> 
>> j
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  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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