[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-ZA new website

[Alan Levin]

Hi everyone,

I do apologise for my quietness over the last few years. There are a few reasons that I won't go into yet, but I must say that this is one of my favorite lists. I can't imagine ever unsubscribing (so if I suddenly disappear you will know that it was not my choice :P)

Thank you Joly for picking up on our website, how did you spot it?

Thank you all for your kind words... we really did not spend any time on the design of the wordpress template, the main efforts were in importing all our content. Wordpress really met our needs well.  I do hope to improve the design, any inputs welcome. 

For those of you that visited you will have noticed that we have some aggressive plans for the year. We have improved relationships with the South African Parliament and we now have competition in Telecoms (over 400 licensees) which really changes the ISOC-ZA raison-detre. We are also still trying to work with ISOC global and still seem to be struggling. 

On 07 Mar 2010, at 8:50 AM, Rudi Vansnick wrote:
> I thought this was online, but as the website changed new portal) I do not know where it resides now.

This is where I received the attached vector image. 

> Op 6/03/2010 19:27, Joly MacFie schreef:
>> The identity guidelines mention the existence of a "Internet Society
>> Identity Materials CD"
>> Anyone seen one of these?
>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to have all the materials available online, too?

I was very excited to see all the materials online (about a year ago) on the same page that I collected the attached vector image files (I had been asking for them since 2002). I looked at the guidelines for chapter banners but I was not building a chapter banner and the vector graphics were the attached do not easily facilitate the creation of the proposed 'chapter banner' (and I'd never seen it used). In all honesty the chapter banner is quite ugly (IMHO). WRT the words 'chapter', we considered it but preferred using just South Africa and nothing was mentioned in the guidelines about this. I did not set the font, I just used the vector graphic and edited and exported as png, seemed very simple and very useful. 

Regards opinions of the chapters on standardisation vs imagination, I think there are good arguments both ways.  We consider ourselves a chapter that (operates like a cctld), we are part of ISOC worldwide and we are accountable to our members.  As such I recommend to Greg that you consult with the chapters in the development of any proposed identity standards for the chapters and I look forward to your email. 

Warm regards

Alan



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Alan Levin
Internet Society of South Africa


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