+1 to replacing the "Contact" link by "Around the World" or Worldwide or Locations or OpenID Worldwide(+1), ?
Yesmore contact info is already available on the OpenID Foundation page. For the time being, everyone has built this on their own, But of course +1 and it is on the agenda, but we need a little time for that; I would like to include that in the project of the Local Chapter Kit. Among other things, this Kit gives the accredited Local Chapter the possibility to use the same CMS as OpenID.nets (for the moment only WP ). The advice is also given to have all latest important OIDF posts translated. To be able to handle all such questions, I think that it could become useful in a while to create a new Mailing List, dedicated to the Local Chapters, to allow them to help each other -Snorri De : David Recordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 31 octobre 2008 18:17 À : Snorri Cc : [email protected]; Scott Kveton; Mike Jones Objet : Re: "OpenID Worldwide" - Can we add a link on the 'OpenID.net' home? Importance : Haute I'd support replacing the "Contact" link with "Around the World" or something like that. I think the contact link is actually a little deceiving given that it is contact info for the Foundation whereas OpenID.net is designed to be more generally about the project. Not a pre-req to this, but it would also be nice to further build out the chapters page to look a bit nicer, maybe provide an excerpt of the latest blog post from each chapter, etc. --David On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Snorri wrote: Dear Members of the Board, As you know, I am convinced that the key to OpenIDs development throughout the world is the amount and quality of support we bring to the Local Communities. Putting Local Chapters and Communities in place is a major part of my current activities for OpenID. Since the creation of the OIDF Local Chapter Policywhich saw the light of day thanks to Mike Joneswe have been able to put in place eight (8) Local Chapters (among them 2 new onesthey came in this week; OpenID Morocco and OpenID Turkey), to which 6 or 7 others (Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Korea, Denmark, Thailand, Malaysia ) may be added in the coming weeks. I may add that I have as a personal objective to reach the bar of the 50 Local Chapters in 2009. This being considered, it would seem not normal that the page http://openid.net/foundation/chapters/ be almost hidden at the bottom of thehttp://openid.net/foundation/ page, in other words, practically invisible. To pursue our progression, we need more visibility; for example, by placing, directly on the Home (at the top and to the right), an OpenID Worldwide link (this term of worldwide is more clear than Local Chapters," a term more reserved to internal designation and legal documents). The advantages I see to this are threefold: (a) Allowing visitors coming to OpenID.net from the rest of the world to go further, and to be able to come in direct contact, and to receive assistance from, the Community in their own countryin their own language, (b) Give a motivation to new members of the OpenID Community to start a Local Chapter in their country if none exists there yet, (c) Broadcast a true international image to the Foundation and to prove that OpenID is truly a global phenomenon. Do you agree to this? If so, please give me you agreement by mail and I will make the modification on OpenID.net. Thank you, -Snorri
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