[Chapter-delegates] Results of chapter survey to create new set of chapter website tools

[Christian de Larrinaga]

Apologies Alexander for not responding to the survey. I missed it
completely.

open source Web, messaging, are pretty standard features already. Adding
something for events, video conferencing etc are not such big issues for
us to support locally  but open source projects are not as well placed
as far as I can tell particularly on the vc side of things.  Encouraging
a robust code base and a community service provider might be worth
considering.

The other thing that works well for us is to offer webcasting and access
to recordings. Here work Joly has done is exemplary and very helpful to
showing a useful role for a chapter in the local community.

The main challenge for information flows is with ISOC itself and the
dead end as an information service that AMS represents. A secondary ISOC
issue would be to get them to at least double the support for chapter
comms web services etc.

Having said that it is worth reviewing all of the comms facilities
periodically and it is something I've been wanting to do sometime this
year but will need to engage the whole chapter probably via our next
survey before the chapter can give a definitive response.

A couple of other things you don't mention.

Some kind of campaign management could be useful. That keeps track of
what people support and have supported and can invite them to sign up
for petitions and other issues. A form of cms for causes. Whether one of
the existing cause orgs would offer a branded access to their platform I
don't know but it might be one route to look at.

Integration with a billing and accounting service such as Xero and
Stripe etc is in my mind too. We don't currently charge for things as a
chapter but anything that reduces the bookeeping and handle the accounts
preparation and reporting as a service would be worth a deeper look. I
don't know of any open source ready to ship services to build on there.
But I would be interested to learn of any.

Others from the chapter might have something to say (cc'd)

thanks


Christian
ISOC UK England




Alexander Blom wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> In March of this year, we sent all of you a mail regarding the need
> for a suite of open source tools and shared facilities to help every
> ISOC chapter live up to its full potential. The mail also invited you
> to participate in a survey.
>
> 22 chapters responded, which we thought was pretty good, and you can
> find the results of the survey on our website
> <https://isoc.nl/isoc/results-chapter-survey/>. As you will see, some
> reactions were positive, some contributed a few interesting ideas, and
> a few were more skeptic.5 chapters expressed their willingness to be
> involved further in the project.
>
> We then discussed the results of the survey with ISOC.ORG
> <http://ISOC.ORG> with the result that they agreed to financially
> support the following goals for phase 1:
>
>
>
> 1. Assemble a number of open source tools accomodating:
>
>   * a conveniently editable, accessible, responsive website
>   * a collaborative real-time editor for documents
>   * secure web conferencing facility with IM capabilities for online
>     meetings
>
> 2. Create accessible and attractive ISOC chapter templates for
> desktop/mobile browser/tablet at least suitable for this projects'
> open source tools, with room for posts, background articles and
> chapter information
>
> 3. Design acessible and attractive ISOC chapter templates for news letters
>
> The designs will be coordinated with the rebranding project at ISOC.org.
>
>
> In our opinion this reflects many of the wishes expressed in the
> survey, and thus is a very good start of the project. However, we can
> only go ahead if we can demonstrate a clear show of interest from all
> of you and therefore the question to you is: do you want this project
> to go forward?
>
> /_If so, please reply to this mail with your chapters' name and a
> definite “YES”._/
>
> Thanks for your support in advance, and let us know if you have any
> questions or want to be more involved.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> On behalf of Internet Society Netherlands,
>
> Alexander Blom and Michiel Leenaars
>
>
>
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Christian de Larrinaga