[At-Large] ALAC websites

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

This is a longer subject, worthy of a more complete response, but here
are a few main points:

* Each regional website allows the entire community in that region to
update the content. The Staff do most of the maintenance of the pages
related to meetings, and we do upload documents of course.

* There are some main pages of some sites which have not been updated
much it is true - alac.icann.org has a lot of out-of-date content on
the front page, though various sections are up-to-date.

* I spent a good deal of time with Kieren and Marc (webmaster) at
Lisbon, and we do have a plan for a very considerable upgrade /
replacement of alac.icann.org with a new microsite, at-large.icann.org
- containing a new look, replacement for out-of-date text, the
facility to have forums which post bidirectionally from regional
discussion email lists, and allow blogs too - once the plan is firmed
up I will provide more detail of course and we have set a target of
San Juan to have the first, preview version, available for comments by
the community.

* As you may know, I am including in our budget a provision for a
full-time member of staff to act as Secretariat to the regions. This
new person will, among other things, be charged with helping make the
regional websites much more topical and (for example) ensuring that
they contain more information about the community - each ALS, their
activities, etc.

* We do need a lot more information about ICANN and its processes in a
user-friendly format. Kieren and I are planning to make a list of
pages from www.icann.org which need to be re-presented in this way,
and find a couple of tech / ICANN-savvy journalists who can write them
up in a news-style format, allowing a reader to understand the
structures and processes much more readily.

On 25/04/07, Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm in the middle of a discussion with the Board in which I'm trying to
> raise the priority of the "post-Registerfly" theme in respect to other
> things that others see as more important. So I wanted to point (again)
> the Board at our resolution on the matter, and...
>
> ...I realized that we have two websites, the ICANN-managed one and the
> ALAC-managed one, both of which do not seem to have been updated since
> December at least for what pertains to our releases, so there is no way
> that I can point anyone to our resolution, except by pointing to the
> wiki (which is not where you'd expect to find a final release, and where
> it's hard to find things anyway).
>
> All in all, while I am aware of the issues about hiring a content
> manager, we should get this done asap - and/or we should get a
> reasonable timeshare of ICANN's webmaster so that at least the official
> documents approved by the ALAC get published promptly on alac.icann.org.
>
> Ciao,
> --
> vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu   <--------
> -------->  finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/  <--------
>
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