[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-ZA new website

[Eduardo Diaz]

Alan:

Greg consulted with all chapters before moving ahead with the final design.
He can explain you the process better.

Regards.

Eduardo Diaz
ISOC - Puerto Rico

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Alan Levin <alan at isoc.org.za> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> --
> Alan Levin
> Internet Society of South Africa
>
>
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