[wsfii-discuss] WSFII.org website in pity full state!

Sun Jun 3 12:06:06 UTC 2007

Sorry Fred  ;-)

We did some work in Wordpress for a new layout for the WSFII-site for I 
guess more than half a year ago. You can see the rough draft here 
http://wsfii.diirwb.net/ (the calendar will be at the now empyspaced 
left side) . I think we can have it running rather quickly (today or a 
few days). As far as I remember the processes at that time got stuck 
because of problems with uploading with the webdav interface. These 
problems have been solved now.

Lots of regardss, Klavs

Fred Pook skrev:
> Hi All,
>
> Ashish is right before we start to talk about all kinds of
> political/organizational issues, WSFII should at least do what is in
> its name 'Free Information Infrastructures".  And our main
> infrastructure (our website) is a mess and way behind. There are tons
> of free tools out there to build a automated web portal but it seems
> that WSFII.org can't even update a calender.
> I have dedicated all my time the last 2 years to WSFII and i never
> asked for any payment for that time, in fact it has cost me thousands
> of euro's. This year I don't have the funds and income anymore, so I
> have to dedicate my time and energy towards generating my own income
> again. I don't see any income coming from the WSFII process so ...
> Let somebody else please take care of WSFII and its website or
> otherwise just close it. Closing the website will look stronger than
> having a silly out of date amateur website.
>
> Thanks Fred
>
>
>
>
> On 6/3/07, Assoc of Public ICT Tools Access Prov <list at apiap.org> wrote:
>> Maybe  before that get  a group  of people take charge of the website
>> http://wsfii.org/ .
>>  WSFII site can atleast:
>>  #  aggregate the information & development  in the CWN arena &
>>  #  Get  as many activist/ enthusiast  blog on the site .
>>
>>  Choosing your facilitators will be easy .
>>
>>  Ashish
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/3/07, Vickram Crishna <v1clist at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> > --- Jeff Buderer <jeff at onevillagefoundation.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > We need a structure in place within the wsfii
>> > > network to manage or at
>> > > least facilitate the process.
>> > >
>> >
>> > With all due respect to the way things have been done
>> > in other circumstances, one facet of wsfii is
>> > precisely the steering clear of 'organisation' that
>> > has its own baggage.
>> >
>> > If there is confusion, it is only because everyone is
>> > not totally with it on the process. If the process is
>> > not clear enough, then either we should automate a
>> > 'rules' mail that goes out to the list once a month,
>> > or we should express our doubts about the process.
>> >
>> > I think that a working group for a particular 'event',
>> > such as the gathering in Ghana, should take charge to
>> > coordinate things. This should be as open a process as
>> > possible, to avoid the kind of stuff that went wrong
>> > in Dharamsala (for example, many travelers requesting
>> > visas for India put down 'conference' as the reason
>> > for travel, not knowing this raises a red flag with
>> > our penpushers, who either delayed or refused some
>> > requests. We should have had an advisory telling
>> > people to select 'tourism' or something).
>> >
>> >
>> > Vickram
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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