[Membership-affairs] Welcome to the Noncommercial Users Constituency of ICANN

[William Drake]

I took some of that text from the brochure, which will also be on the site, so re-use might be a little awkward?  for now, why not just go with the About stuff from the extant site, we'll revise and fill in missing pages later.  Let's work with what we have on hand, no?  There's no more time for woodcrafting now.

http://new.ncuc.org/events/past-conferences-and-workshops/ still needs the stuff I'd sent previously…

http://new.ncuc.org/events/forthcoming-events/ needs to refresh because I added the EC meeting and moved and revised the other two on Confluence so they'd all be together.  Please point to the links that are off https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+@+ICANN+47%2C+Durban+South+Africa+July+2013

Rushing, thanks

B




On Jul 8, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO> wrote:

> On Jul 06 11:22, Rafik Dammak (rafik.dammak at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> good welcome mail to the new members, it summarises our objectives, how to
>> be involved etc. it can be useful to have as content in our website with an
>> "about us page".
> 
> Sounds good. In new.ncuc.org we have top-level menu entry "About",
> it would fit there but it'd need a different (sub)title than
> "about us" - suggestions?
> 
>> to involve members effectively , we need to know their area of interests
>> and background and engage them when needed as experts for example someone
>> interested by development issues may be interested in the revival of JAS WG
>> while an academic can be hooked with a topic of governance
>> and accountability , a kind of information we can add to the database,
>> maybe a topic for discussion between e-team and membership affairs  and we
>> move step by step (and prioritise) an action plan will be helpful .
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
>> we had also some discussion about civicrm and dave offered to help. I am
>> not advising an inflation of tools but thinking about integrated set of
>> tools that we can use frequently :
> 
>> wordpress(website for organisational memory,
> 
> Check.
> 
>> project management?,
> 
> Yes. We had discussion about this early on, but didn't reach
> a decision on the tool to use.
> 
>> ncuc calendar,
> 
> Many nice calendar plugins for Wordpress.
> The hard part is getting people to populate it with events.
> 
>> decisions, statements)
> 
> Collecting all past stuff from wherever is no small task,
> but we could start putting new ones up consistently from
> now on.
> 
>> + civicrm (+database for members management, engagement,
>> following-up)
> 
> We have a member database now but it's a quick hack
> with minimal functionality.
> CiviCRM sounds nice but the only one among us with
> any real experience in it is Dave.
> 
>> + etherpad(for statement drafting, collaborative work etc)
> 
> We already have etherpad, even if it's a bit hidden
> and lacks authentication, cf. http://pad.ncuc.org/.
> 
>> while I am cautious about using social network features , to be effective
>> it needs some critical mass, I think wordpress has such feature or plugin
>> and that needs investigation how to handle the migration from the ning to
>> there
> 
> Yes. Given how little stuff there is in Ning I don't see the migration
> all that hard, but selecting and configuring a suitable plugin is needed.
> Brenden said he had ideas about that, but I don't expect to be ready
> with that before Durban (less than a week to go).
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
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William J. Drake
International Fellow & Lecturer
  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
william.drake at uzh.ch  
www.williamdrake.org
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