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

[Richard Hill]

Regarding bullets 2 and 3 under point 1 below, I quote from the IGF 2015 Output Document: Best Practice Forum (BPF) on Strengthening Multistakeholder Participation Mechanisms, section C:

 

● For drafting there is Etherpad, which is free and open source and can be self-hosted (http://etherpad.org). For meetings, the free and open source and self-hostable alternative is Jitmeet (https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiMeet) 

● Riseup pads (https://pad.riseup.net/) are a good alternative, but disappear after 30 days of inactivity. 

● For audio conferences it was suggested to look at Mumble: http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page 

● And for editing Wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki 

● For drafting, ZohoDocs and OnlyOffice were suggested 

● For meeting plus document collaboration, Team Viewer13 was suggested.

 

Personally, I have used Etherpad, Wiki, and Mumble and they all work well.  It seems to me that Wiki is an excellent collaborative real-time editor for documents, and Mumble is an acceptable web conferencing facility.

 

However, I find that Zoom, which are not free, is a much better web conferencing facility.  In my view, ISOC should help to make Zoom available to chapters directly (rather than by having to go through ISOC staff as is the case today), either by coming up with a way to let chapters have accounts, or by subsidizing the cost for chapters to acquire accounts.

 

For document editing, Wiki might be overkill in most situations. While Etherpad is OK, I find that Box is much better. Again, Box is not free and the same comment above regarding Zoom applies to Box: I think that ISOC should help to make Box available directly to chapters.

 

Best,

Richard

 

From: Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Blom
Sent: mardi, 7. juin 2016 23:45
To: Chapter Delegates
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Results of chapter survey to create new set of chapter website tools

 

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 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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