[NCUC E-team] FW: Web site refeshing

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:56:30PM +0000, Maryam Bakoshi (maryam.bakoshi at icann.org) wrote:

> Yes, it also occurred to me that as the membership list is
> automatically generated by a php script, it would require some
> re-writing to achieve this.

Yes, but there's nothing particularly hard about that.

> From: William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com<mailto:wjdrake at gmail.com>>

> Thanks, I didn't realize it'd be complicated to put their URLs.

If I understood correctly that all you want is the website (URL) of
organizational members shown (and clickable) in the member list,
it would not be very complicated.

It would require some cleaning in the database, as websites
aren't saved consistently (some have http:// in them, some don't,
for example), and some experimenting to make it look good
in the table (especially since not all members have websites
in the database), but it shouldn't take more than a couple of hours.

Unfortunately I may have even that to spare until the end of next
week or so (I'll be traveling and mostly offline from tomorrow
until 28th), but it should be easily doable by Singapore.

> On 20 Jan 2015, at 11:37, Milan, Stefania <Stefania.Milan at EUI.eu<mailto:Stefania.Milan at EUI.eu>> wrote:

> - alternatively, we can explore the option of re-installing NING.

I'm not quite sure what'd be the point in that...
I see Brenden has already said what I had in mind:

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 09:36:08AM -0500, Brenden Kuerbis (bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:

> No time for a detailed reply, but I think it would be a mistake to use
> Ning. I understand the allure of using a turnkey platform like Ning which
> we used for several years. But I think we made a conscious choice to move
> away from proprietary platforms for NCUC's internal data management.
> Potentially splitting member and other NCUC-organizational data between two
> platforms (WP and Ning) is a recipe for headaches and more work. That said,
> there is value in using things like Facebook for publicity and we should
> take advantage of that.
> 
> I believe we can accomplish the specific things mentioned below with
> various Wordpress plugins, or even with simple webpage based forms and the
> existing database. My suggestion would be for the EC to work up a simple
> list of functionality to be implemented, accomplish tasks which can be done
> easily internally (e.g., using the phpPgAdmin web interface to update
> member database with Organization/Individual website addresses), and seek
> out a volunteer or even hire someone with the requisite skills to
> accomplish the rest. It really isn't too much work to update scripts and
> build forms that interact with the database.

Exactly.

Also, I'm going to work on NCSG member database and application process
and trying to integrate it with NCUC (in particular get rid of the need
to enter member data manually into NCUC database - getting it from NCSG db
should be completely automatic), and I really don't want even to think
how that'd work with Ning.

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Tapani Tarvainen