Re: [ICANN-EU] Any interest in an alternative interface to the ICANN Q&A Forum?

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Hear, Hear.
All the more than @large members with a PIN problem ar like
non @large.
Jefsey

At 10:18 11/09/00, you wrote:
>Andrew,
>
>I think you are thinking in the right direction, because openness is a
>good thing.
>
>One thing I am concerned of is that we should be careful to make
>"official" tools that makes it easy for non-At-Large-members to
>distribute information to At-Large-members. In general this is no
>problem, but there is and will allways be a few people or organizations
>that may misuse this channel and destroy constructive discussions.
>
>Best regards,
>--
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>
>
>
>Andrew Bloch wrote:
> >
> > Use the power of the Internet -- let's not restrict ourselves by the 
> ancient
> > limitations that ICANN imposes on us.
> >
> > As most of you probably know by now, ICANN has set up a question and answer
> > forum for members (only) to ask questions of nominees
> >  http://members.icann.org/qa.html ).  Unfortunately, there are a few
> > features missing that could be useful, and I've started thinking about
> > creating an alternative interface to make up for the shortcomings.   I 
> could
> > create a mirror of all the questions and answers on ICANN's official site
> > and provide some advanced features.
> >
> > Here are some of the features I'm considering:
> >
> > 1.  Allow users (members and non-members) to post comments in response to
> > the nominees' answers.
> >
> > 2.  Forward new answers to interested users by email, so they don't have to
> > visit the website frequently.
> >
> > 3.  A compact table showing which candidates have answered which questions.
> >
> > 4.  A clearinghouse or other method for activated members to volunteer to
> > ask questions on behalf of non-activated members or members from other
> > regions.  (Under ICANN rules, active members can only submit questions to
> > nominees in their own region.)
> >
> > Before I start working on this, I wanted to measure people's interest
> > (because I have a lot of other things that I should be doing with my time
> > ;).  Please take a few seconds and send me your comments (to me only, 
> unless
> > you really think it's important enough to distract 100 people).
> >
> > Would you use any or all of these features?
> >
> > Can you think of other features you'd like?
> >
> > Which features are most important, if there isn't enough time to implement
> > them all?
> >
> > *** If you are a candidate, would you try to read and/or respond to users
> > comments?
> >
> > Do you think a significant portion of at-large members will find this
> > useful?
> >
> > This would be most useful if as many members as possible know of its
> > existence and use it.  Would you help promote it via any contacts you have
> > with appropriate websites, email lists, etc.?
> >
> > If a lot of people do use it, we will probably need to run it on another
> > server, perhaps mirrored locally to each region.  Do you have access to a
> > web server that could handle the possible traffic?  (preferably a unix box
> > plus perl with the cgi and lwp libraries).
> >
> > I have other projects that I should be working on.  Are you a web developer
> > that could do this faster and/or better than me, with time to get this 
> going
> > in the next 24-48 hours?  Do you have any scripts that would be very 
> useful?
> > Or, should we instead involve a site like http://www.slashdot.org that
> > already handles user comments and can support the bandwidth?
> >
> > Thanks for your responses,
> >
> > Andy Bloch