[NCUC E-team] E-team Digest, Vol 30, Issue 5

Sat Aug 22 12:23:01 CEST 2015

Many thanks,

Maryam Bakoshi
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Re: Suggestion for website update (Brenden Kuerbis)
>   2. Re: Suggestion for website update (Tapani Tarvainen)
>   3. BuddyPress (Maryam Bakoshi)
>   4. Re: BuddyPress (Tapani Tarvainen)
>   5. Re: Suggestion for website update (William Drake)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 08:10:38 -0400
> From: Brenden Kuerbis <bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org>
> To: William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com>
> Cc: e-Team <e-team at lists.ncuc.org>
> Subject: Re: [NCUC E-team] Suggestion for website update
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>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 7:39 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi James
>> 
>> Thanks for doing this, interesting.  To be honest though I?m less
>> aesthetically bored with the existing site than you are (although I wish
>> people would provide more content),
> 
> 
> One problem with the existing site - we don't take advantage even when
> people provide great content. E.g., the "Members Blog" is not a blog,
> rather a static page with links to pdf files. Each article should be an
> actual blog post, that can be indexed, create a RSS feed, republished, etc.
> 
I will work to change the PDF files into html and make it an actual post.
> 
>> and the volunteers who developed it not long ago might feel funny about us
>> changing it already.  Maybe revisit next year?
> 
> Personally, I thought the prototype James worked up is great, with more
> images and less text. And to my point above, it actually uses the content
> created by folks in several places, e.g., on the home page and
> http://188.166.85.226/news-and-media/blog/
> 
> IMO, if James is willing, I'd say revamp the site!
> 
Yes, I agree. I am willing to work with James to revamp the site, both content wise and functionality. 
> -- B
> 
> 
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> On Aug 21, 2015, at 1:14 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> I don?t see much interest in this unfortunately so I?ll come back and
>> revisit it later in the year to see if there is more response, I?ll be
>> taking down the development site listed below on Sunday so if anyone has
>> any further feedback before I put it on a shelf to be looked at later
>> please let me know.
>> 
>> 
>> -James
>> 
>> 
>> On 12 Aug 2015, at 13:06, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> I was working on some side projects over the weekend that meant I was
>> doing a lot of tinkering with Wordpress, and in a bout of late night
>> insomnia I thought I would float the idea of a potential new look for the
>> NCUC site.
>> I spent a few hours throwing together a very rough mockup for the e-team
>> to have a look at and consider.
>> 
>> http://188.166.85.226/
>> 
>> This is by no means a complete site and would need some more work on
>> copying across all of the content that is on the current site. My rough
>> goals were to bring a modern clean look to the site and possibly drive some
>> more members in who might find us online.
>> If people are interested please let me know and I will flesh out the site
>> so that the e-team can consider it as a full proposal, I?ve brought it to
>> you guys now as an early mockup before I put too much time into it so that
>> I can get some feedback on whether people are interesting in having a look
>> at this project or not.
>> 
>> I?m perfectly happy to do the heavy lifting on this one if people want me
>> to go ahead with it.
>> Thought and feedback welcomed and accepted.
>> 
>> -James Gannon
>> 
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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
>> william.drake at uzh.ch (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
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>> *Internet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap *http://goo.gl/sRR01q
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:28:17 +0300
> From: Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info>
> To: e-team at lists.ncuc.org
> Subject: Re: [NCUC E-team] Suggestion for website update
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>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 08:10:38AM -0400, Brenden Kuerbis (bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:
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>> One problem with the existing site - we don't take advantage even when
>> people provide great content. E.g., the "Members Blog" is not a blog,
>> rather a static page with links to pdf files. Each article should be an
>> actual blog post, that can be indexed, create a RSS feed, republished, etc.
> 
> Yes. There's a lot that could and should be improved in the
> functionality of the site, much more urgently than changing
> the looks.
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:36:39 +0000
> From: Maryam Bakoshi <maryam.bakoshi at icann.org>
> To: "e-team at lists.ncuc.org" <e-team at lists.ncuc.org>
> Subject: [NCUC E-team] BuddyPress
> Message-ID: <D1FCD9E5.F5B4%maryam.bakoshi at icann.org>
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> Dear All,
> 
> Couple of months ago, in my meeting with Bill, he suggested we add a functionality to the NCUC website that allows members interact on a ?social? platform.
> I began to research this idea and came across BuddyPress; BuddyPress helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.
> I have played around with BuddyPress and it seems to me, that it would be a good fit for Bill?s idea.
> I have installed the plugin on the NCUC website, but I am holding off doing anything until I get approval/suggestions.
> Please, I would really appreciate your input.
> To learn more about BuddyPress, please visit https://buddypress.org.
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> --
> Maryam Bakoshi
> Secretariat ?Support - NCSG, NCUC, NPOC
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:17:59 +0300
> From: Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info>
> To: e-team at lists.ncuc.org
> Subject: Re: [NCUC E-team] BuddyPress
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>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:36:39PM +0000, Maryam Bakoshi (maryam.bakoshi at icann.org) wrote:
>> 
>> Couple of months ago, in my meeting with Bill, he suggested we add a functionality to the NCUC website that allows members interact on a ?social? platform.
>> I began to research this idea and came across BuddyPress; BuddyPress helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.
>> I have played around with BuddyPress and it seems to me, that it would be a good fit for Bill?s idea.
>> I have installed the plugin on the NCUC website, but I am holding off doing anything until I get approval/suggestions.
>> Please, I would really appreciate your input.
>> To learn more about BuddyPress, please visit https://buddypress.org.
> 
> At first look it looks very promising to me.
> 
> Ideally though we'd like to link its members directly to existing
> NCUC member database. I'll try to find time next week to see how
> hard that would be to do.
> 
Thank you, Tapani. Linking members directly from the database would be great. 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:06:03 +0200
> From: William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
> To: Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO>
> Cc: e-Team <e-team at lists.ncuc.org>
> Subject: Re: [NCUC E-team] Suggestion for website update
> Message-ID: <2ED5560E-62BE-44D1-91B6-C1C68B08D0F5 at uzh.ch>
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> Hi
> 
>> On Aug 21, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 08:10:38AM -0400, Brenden Kuerbis (bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:
>> 
>>> One problem with the existing site - we don't take advantage even when
>>> people provide great content. E.g., the "Members Blog" is not a blog,
>>> rather a static page with links to pdf files. Each article should be an
>>> actual blog post, that can be indexed, create a RSS feed, republished, etc.
>> 
>> Yes. There's a lot that could and should be improved in the
>> functionality of the site, much more urgently than changing
>> the looks.
> 
> 
> I guess that?s my view, functionality and content need collective attention more than whether the background is white or blue. If someone thinks the blog isn?t as it should be, why not just fix it?  If the document library is thin, why not find and add docs? And so on?embarking on a redo of the whole site now on top of everything else in the air right now just seems like misplaced priorities to me.  But if this is really something people want to spend time on, nothing gets broken functionally, no content we worked to put up gets lost, Maryam?s in the loop and comfortable with any changes, etc., then hey knock yourselves out and we can show a prototype to people and see if they?re happy.   
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Bill
> 
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