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

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Andrew Bloch wrote:
>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.

So create a open ML. Yes!

>3.  A compact table showing which candidates have answered which questions.

Have a look at the ML visualisation tools used by Hanno. Might be a mostly
automatic job.

>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.)

How does this correspond to 1)?

>Would you use any or all of these features?

No.

>Can you think of other features you'd like?

Threading. Scoring (my slrn does it for me)

>Which features are most important, if there isn't enough time to implement
>them all?

Let it be a mailing list.

>Do you think a significant portion of at-large members will find this
>useful?

Yes.

>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.?

Yes.

>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).

Yes.

>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?

Hanno?