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

[Leah Symekher]

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Leah Symekher
SFBay ISOC Chapter


On 6/9/16 9:36 AM, Eduardo Diaz wrote:
> I think that moving into open source tools is a great idea and the 
> project should move forward. However,as you can read in other emails 
> there are already many ideas and comments as to what type of tools to 
> use. The next step should be for you to tell the chapters your 
> recommended tools and let us comment on them as to the coms and pros 
> before deciding on anything. After all we are going to end using these.
>
> By the way, is this project going to take care of fixing (or 
> replacing)the "connect" platform. The current one does not "connect" 
> at all, specially if you are reading it in a mobile phone.
>
> -ed
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:44 PM Alexander Blom 
> <alexander.blom at budgetphone.nl <mailto:alexander.blom at budgetphone.nl>> 
> 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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