Fred,RE: [chapter-delegates] Dumb question

[Ramon Morales]

Fred:
Fantastic!!! I believe that creating these services would greatly enhance
our communication and build a common fabric for us to use to build a
community of knowledge among the chapters. Such a community of knowledge
would allow us the opportunity to build on each others experiences and allow
for healthy positive support that could translate into better organized
chapters, coordinated actions and campaigns, building new chapters rapidly
etc...

Wow!!! I am excited about the possibilities. Count us in to support and
build upon your vision concretely.
Ramon Morales
Chairman
Internet Society of Puerto Rico

-----Original Message-----
From: Baker Fred [mailto:fred at cisco.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:44 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?