Hello, please find my comments below: On 19/02/2017 20:20, Joly MacFie wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com <mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com>> wrote:
Maybe exploring the ISOC connect tool
I am currently participating in a review of ISOC Connect as to whether it should be continue or be replaced. There has been a fair amount of grumbling,, especially from the old guard, however one thing I have already learned is that, as far as ISOC goes, while some Chapters in Africa do use it as their primary avenue of communication, it's main and important function is to provide shallow water for new joiners to get their feet wet, get an idea of the community, and a sense of belonging. A newbie playground. The idea being that the keen ones may graduate to traditional vectors such wg's, email lists, wiki's etc
The list of problems that ISOC Connect brings is long - the biggest problem being the inability for cleanly forward a message from the system to proper email. It contains all sorts of links etc. And you also have to log in to read its archives. I remind you that the vast majority of At-Large mailing lists are publicly archived with no need for a password to consult them.
There are also other functional nitpicks that are never fixed. Part of the problem is that it is a hosted platform (think a glorified Xing) and thus no real change can happen unless it is put through on the whole platform. OTOH this is possibly less maintenance than a standalone such as the FOSS Buddypress.
To some extent the lack of action on At-Large email lists attests to the success of the Adobe Connect + Confluence combo, but this may lend itself to elitism. I think, like ISOC, At-Large could look at driving wider participation.
We have a working group whose sole task is to look at the new technologies - the Technology Task Force. https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ The questions we are addressing are age-old and have been raised in the first At-Large Review *plus* in the ATLAS II Statement where all of our ALS representatives came to London and discussed that very problem. This gave rise to recommendation 26 - a policy management process system. https://community.icann.org/x/WJZCAw We have also made a request this year for financing to do into the first stage of this project: http://bit.ly/2kZCnH0 The TTF also performed various testing of tools: https://community.icann.org/x/QaM0Aw https://community.icann.org/x/O1R-Ag Kindest regards, Olivier