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

[Alexander Blom]

Hello all,

First of all, a big thank you to all the chapters that expressed their
support for the project. It was enough to convince isoc.org that the
project should continue, and we are now discussing financial support for it.

Second, many chapters joined in an interesting discussion on what
commercial and open source tools to use for what purpose and which ones to
stay away from. We have taken note of all the tools that were mentioned and
we will get back to them once we are at that stage.

Thirdly, many feel that the final selection of the different tools should
be done by chapters. We could not agree more, and we will provide
opportunities to participate and to vote every step of the way.

Thanks again, and if you have any questions at this stage, let us know.


Kind regards,

On behalf of Internet Society Netherlands,

Alexander Blom and Michiel Leenaars


2016-06-14 18:24 GMT+02:00 Leah Symekher <leahs at isc.org>:

> +1
>
> 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> 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 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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