[chapter-delegates] Dumb question

[Rajnesh D. Singh]

I think Fred's suggestion is great. A lot of positives should come out
of it.

> We could very simply offer each chapter a domain name of the form
>         chapter-name.isoc.org

I particularly like this idea and the setup of an IM system and look
forward to some
action being taken towards implementation of all these in the very near
future.

Rajnesh Singh
rajnesh at patarapacific.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Gaines [mailto:gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:20 PM
To: Baker Fred
Cc: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org; David McAuley
Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] Dumb question


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.

> 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/
> Would a service of that type of interesting?