[Chapter-delegates] Tracking issues/improvements for ISOC Website

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

Dear All,

as you know I suggested to have an issue tracker as part of the
collaboration Web site. And I said I would be happy to feed and
administer one related to the ISOC Website. At least for technical
issues ISOC has a tool already in place:

https://mantis.tools.isoc.org/
see: New updates to the ISOC Chapter Portal / 2010-08-27 10:49 -0400
and: Latest enhancements to the ISOC AMS Chapter Portal (Review
Applicants page) 2011-05-06 09:08 -0400

It is obviously not heavily used (9 issues in 1+year) - and many of us
(like me) may have even overseen it when it was announced - nor is it
up-to-date, but it has all the potential to track technical issues. In
order to make progress (not much seen up to now) with
documentation/fixing the issues of http://www.internetsociety.org/ I
suggest to create a new Project "Internetsociety.org Website".

I'm aware that in order to be useful some requirements have to be
fulfilled:

  * project administration (defining Categories, eliminate spam,
    delete spamming accounts). I don't expect this to be very
    demanding and would volunteer to do this for at least 6 months to
    give it a start.

  * people have to use it - those who report issues and those who fix
    them. So if somebody reports an issue to webfeedback at isoc.org
    <mailto:webfeedback at isoc.org> he should be invited to
    https://mantis.tools.isoc.org/ and his issue should be transferred
    to the tracker.

Bug- or issue trackers are widely used to cooperate between developers
and users of technical systems. We should not be shy to use them to
fix our (insert an adjective you like) Internet presence. Wrt the ISOC
Website I would use some tracking anyhow to remember things I reported
already (my poor brain starts forgetting).

So please, to get a start - could IT - or whoever is responsible please:

  * start a project "Internetsociety.org Website" on Mantis
  * somebody step in as administrator (or authorize me as project
    administrator

This would get the ball rolling - and we could start to get people on
board.

Am I moving too fast? Actually I don't think so. Observing what has
happened to the site for 1.5 months now: it started low at didn't gain
much height up to now.

Best, Klaus

PS.: Bonus track ...
I sent 71 (not all!) pages of http://www.internetsociety.org/ through
the HTML validator. Only 8 didn't pass. This is not an excellent ratio
but is not so bad either. For those in charge here are those that had
errors:
http://www.internetsociety.org/events/chapter-events is Invalid, Errors:9
http://www.internetsociety.org/events/events-calendar is Invalid, Errors:7
http://www.internetsociety.org/events/global-inet-2012 is Invalid,
Errors:2
http://www.internetsociety.org/events/past-events is Invalid, Errors:17
http://www.internetsociety.org/get-involved/spread-word is Invalid,
Errors:2
http://www.internetsociety.org/news/world-ipv6-launch-solidifies-global-support-new-internet-protocol
is Invalid, Errors:1
http://www.internetsociety.org/rss is Invalid, Errors:2
http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/contact-us is Invalid, Errors:1


-- 
Klaus Birkenbihl
Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
http://www.isoc.de/

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