[Chapter-delegates] Online demonstration of new ISOC Chapter Portal (Beta version) - Wednesday, September 9th

[Lincoln McNey]

Dear Chapter Delegates, Chapter Steering Committee, and AMS PoCs:

The “alpha version” of the new ISOC Chapter portal was demonstrated  
July 21st to members of the Chapter Steering Committee (CSC ), and all  
those who had previously indicated an interest in the portal.  Thanks  
once again to everyone who provided feedback during and after that  
session.

  We have now incorporated many changes suggested, and would like to  
extend an invitation to the CSC, the AMS Point of Contacts, and to  
members of the Chapter delegates mailing list to review the Beta  
version of the portal.

This Beta version of the portal will have many enhancements, several  
driven directly by the feedback from the last session, including:

  1)  Better look and feel overall (including updated terminology to  
more closely match ISOC processes)

  2)  Sign-up for Chapter membership more prominent earlier in the  
sign-up workflow

  3)  More member types available in the system

  4)  Ability for zero-value memberships to automatically renew

In order to accommodate the greatest number of participants globally,  
this time around we will be hosting two separate sessions:

September 9th:  UTC 11:30 and the second at UTC 20:00

With these two scheduled demos we are hoping that everyone will have  
the opportunity to choose a suitable time.

About the Chapter Portal

ISOC is still in the process of implementing a new Association  
Management System  (AMS). The software package called Aptify will be  
the central data holding and management platform for all data on ISOC  
Chapters, their members, ISOC individual members, organizational  
members, and events.

The ISOC Chapter Portal will be the interface through which chapters  
will interact with the new system.  The portal to be demonstrated on  
September 9th is still the "Phase II" Chapter portal - it is intended  
as a replacement for the Q/GoMembers portal currently deployed, but it  
is NOT the open-source platform portal that is the ultimate goal for  
the long-term AMS project. (The Phase III open-source version will  
replace the Phase II version in 2010.)  Therefore, there may be limits  
to what feedback & requirements gathered from this session can be  
incorporated into this portal to be launched on October 15th.

As before, please reply to this email if you are interested (and which  
session is best for you), and I will send out a Webex invitation to  
each participant.  Webex is screen-sharing software that supports most  
browsers & operating systems, including many open-source:  http://support.webex.com/support/system-requirements.html 
  .  We will also provide local toll-free voice.conference numbers to  
most countries for this session, via our ISOC conferencing service.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you --

Lincoln McNey



Lincoln McNey
Sr. Manager, Systems Solutions
The Internet Society
+41.7986.33390
mcney at isoc.org





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