[chapter-delegates] Dumb question

[Baker Fred]

Please don't take this as either an offer or an announcement - it is a 
question.

A few weeks ago, Ramon Morales said

> I suggest we develop and implement a worldwide virtual community where 
> blogging, instant messaging and discussion groups are set up for our 
> use internally. Such a communications infrastructure will have a major 
> impact on our ability to work together and support each other.

I'm curious whether the following would be of interest and/or value to 
the chapters.

We could very simply offer each chapter a domain name of the form

	chapter-name.isoc.org

and a way to put names in it like www.*, blog.*, and so on.

The names would each point to one of two things, at the chapter's 
discretion: either a machine operated by the chapter, or a machine 
managed by ISOC Reston/Geneva. In the latter case, right now the 
machine www.isoc.org is physically located on the US east coast; we 
could make that a tripartite mirrored service with machines in 
colocation services in Europe, perhaps at RIPE, and in Asia-Pac, 
perhaps in Sydney, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. The machines themselves might 
be relatively low cost Linux machines with large disk drives running

	Apache		web services; give every chapter a web page that they manage
                    and a gigabyte of space perhaps.
				http://www.apache.org/

	WordPress		open source, free, available for Windows, Mac, or Linux;
                    basically PHP + MySQL, so should run under Apache. A 
designated
                    chapter member could manage it for the chapter.
				http://wordpress.org/

	Jabber		Instant Messaging software. Make sure the implementation is 
configured
				to support SSL.
				http://www.jabber.org/

	Majordomo		mail relay
				http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/

A web page I found interesting in poking at this problem: 
http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/. It occurs to me that similar 
thoughts might apply to ISOC itself - get a discussion going in a blog, 
and get it into a the search engines. It might raise awareness.

Would a service of that type of interesting?