[chapter-delegates] Dumb question

[Gene Gaines]

Baker,

I think your suggestions )below) very much in the right
direction.

Enabling and motivating people to take part in an organization
requires more than a vote, it also takes having a voice, being
heard, being able to benefit, and being able to contribute.

Your suggestion is good.  We also need to involve, bring into
this discussion, many more people than the few not participating
in this list.

The use of open source will be a powerful, welcome message to
almost every ISOC chapter in the world.

Thank you.  Let's see what people think, I await comments.

Gene
gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com

On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 6:43:58 AM, Baker wrote:

> 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?


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