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