[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Friendly reminder - Request for help - very short survey : communications needs and priorities

[Veni Markovski]

+1

On 2/7/2012 06:54, Klaus Birkenbihl wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> a form is always good for the reader and for the one who fills it.
> Less work on both sides. The disadvantage is that the space for
> answers is limited. And this is definitely the case with your
> questionnaire. So there are quite some tools that we already have in
> place and never would buy from ISOC. Others - like Elenas
> collaboration platform cover some of the tools you mention and should
> rather not be duplicated.
>
> So just clicking prio 1 to 8 doesn't tell you much. Here my position
> (not speaking for ISOC.DE but assuming it is mostly shared by ISOC.DE
> board).
>
> *ID service*.: Would be nice to have. Frankly I doubt that ISOC can
> provide it in a decent way. I mean for all members in AMS? How do you
> know they exist and how could you prove their identity?
>
> *Email forwarding*: We provide it from ISOC.DE domain
>
> *Newsgroup:* I didn't here much of a request. Elena's forum might
> cover some of it.
>
> *Webhosting:* exists, financial support would be accepted.
>
> *Domain Names:* We have ISOC.DE, we are rather not interested in
> InternetSociety.DE which is grabbed. If somebody fights to get it back
> and pays it - we would accept to run it as an alias of ISOC.DE.
>
> *IM Forum:* rather not interested
>
> *Chapter membership portal:* After all I've seen so far I'd rather
> prefer to administer our membership with our own tools. Some decent
> mechanism to synchronize with AMS would better would be appreciated -
> but since we have a viable solution it is not urgent.
>
> *Topic based Mailinglist:* Would be really useful. But we should
> discuss how this overlaps with the forum.
>
> *Remote Conferencing:* We do this by now with Skype (audio and chat
> for minute taking) and it works OK for us. I heavily used W3C's Zakim
> before - a lot of additional functions wrt conference management,
> minute taking ... nice to have IMHO but having a good IM function +
> phone over IP is sufficient.
>
> *Issue tracking:* I mentioned this before. If we seriously intend to
> manage issues (not only technical ones) we require some means to track
> them. For technical issues mantis would be a good start.
>
> Best, Klaus
>
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