[chapter-delegates] Dumb question

[David McAuley]

Fred thank you. Like Gene, I think you pose a very good question.

Yesterday, some of the chapter delegates and Jim and I took part in a
synchronous communications get together through Yahoo Messenger - it was
arranged by Andreu Vea and it worked out quite well. It was a test and in my
opinion showed some real promise. I see this morning that Irwan was unable
to get into it and we need to consider that and see if it poses a problem.
So your question and the discussion coming out of it and initiatives like
Andreu's should help a great deal in enhancing communications. I understand
you may partake in a Yahoo Messenger event like this on the 29th of March
regarding the warning system idea you and Brian posted and I will check with
Brian to see if he can be involved as well.

Thank you for the question.
David 

David McAuley
Membership Director
Internet Society
703-326-9880, ext 104
703-963-5887 (mobile)
mcauley at isoc.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Baker Fred [mailto:fred at cisco.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:44 AM
To: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
Cc: David McAuley
Subject: [chapter-delegates] Dumb question

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?=