[chapter-delegates] Dumb question

[Rosa Delgado]

Fred,

It is a good idea, I'd imagine that a number of "active chapters" could
start with this initiative and others will join later on. Every effort
towards the establishment of good communications between ISOC HQ and
chapter is good to me, as explained during the BoT meeting in
Mineapolis.  

I could not take part this time in the project launched by Andreu Vea, a
get together through Yahoo Messenger, which is also in the same
direction that your proposal. Thus, more lively communications among
chapters and ISOC HQ, may convince some dormant chapters to join.   

I like the idea of having "a chapter-name.isoc.org .. and a way to put
names in it like www.*, blog.*, and so on". This could be an idea for
standardize chapter names... It would be much cleaner ... as today
chapters have all kind of different domain names...  

Thanks/Rosa

-----Original Message-----
From: Baker Fred [mailto:fred at cisco.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:44
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?