[NA-Discuss] icannalac website (was limericks)

[Jean Armour Polly]

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>JP:
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>Have though about upgrading the site to Joomla? Nobody mentioned the
>existence of this site until now.
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>Eduardo Diaz
>ISOCPR

Yes and it still could be done. I currently run a fairly large Joomla 
site at my full-time job. At the time the icannalac site was being 
developed, Mambo was the only one with good translation tools, which 
were very important to the committee. The site launched in spring of 
2006. By Dec 2006 my term was over. I wrote a fair amount of 
documentation on how to do everything I had been doing, but no one 
had time to take over.

The forum section of the site is actually another tool called 
VBulletin. It uses a capcha system so that bots can't apply for 
accounts. When any posts are made to the fora, several ALAC committee 
members get email notification. These emails contain the post, so you 
can see that it's spam and know that you should be doing something 
about it. It only takes a couple minutes.

It's unfortunate that ALS's and RALOs are just now hearing about 
icannalac. Maybe if more people knew about it, they would step 
forward to help manage it.

I didn't mind doing the work for the site, deleting spam, keeping up 
the calendar, and posting stories, and didn't mind setting up the 
vote-now.com voting tool although each vote took roughly an hour to 
set up depending on how many ALS's were being voted on. When I left 
ALAC, Izumi was nominating me for the ALAC Hall of Fame, but really I 
considered it fair trade for the wonderful trips ICANN took me on 
over my 2 year stint.

It's just too much for me to spend so much time on it as a volunteer, 
without being a member of ALAC. It would be wonderful to see the site 
taken over by several committed individuals. My husband is still 
under contract to do the technical side, build in new functionality, 
etc. But even that could change.

Having an independent voice is very important.

JP