[VOIPSEC] voipsa blog - invitation to contribute and guidelines for contributors

Fri May 26 09:28:34 CDT 2006

Gary and other VOIPSEC readers

To follow up on what Dave said, we have launched the "Voice of VOIPSA" at
http://www.voipsa.org/blog/ as yet another way to expand the conversation 
around VoIP security issues.

We would welcome any contributors! 

Dave, Jonathan and I have started writing, entries mostly so that we could 

figure out and tweak the Wordpress back-end and get things ready to go for 

others to contribute. [1]

We are now ready and would welcome anyone who wants to regularly 
contribute
postings like:

  - Short mentions of breaking news items with relevant links 
  - Longer opinion pieces about VoIP security issues 
  - Tutorial pieces educating folks about a particular aspect of VoIP 
security 
  - Pointers to other articles/blogs/podcasts that contain information 
about 
      VoIP security 

Note that you do NOT have to be your organization's representative to 
VOIPSA
in order to contribute to the blog.  In fact, we are actually open to 
having
contributors from organizations who are not VOIPSA members. We recognize 
that
there may be some people out there with much to contribute for whom it may 
or
may not make sense for their organization to join VOIPSA - and we also 
realize
there are individuals (i.e. security researchers, consultants, etc.) who 
may not 
have a specific organization that could join VOIPSA. One of the end goals 
of 
VOIPSA is to foster an ongoing dialogue about VoIP security issues - the 
threats 
as well as the solutions.  We are looking for people willing to help in 
that goal.

Once we give you the ability to post articles, we will not be editing or
moderating what you post.  We ask only that you agree to these guidelines:

1. No product pitches

   The weblog is for general VoIP security discussion, not promotion of 
   your individual products or services.

2. The weblog is not a press-release distribution vehicle

   Links to press releases are okay, but with context and preferably by a 
   third-party (i.e. someone else, not you, links to your news releases. 
You
   link to other people's news releases, etc.)

3. Copyright on your text is yours, but by posting on VOIPSA's weblog you 
   give VOIPSA permission to redistribute your content as deemed 
appropriate

   For example, we might decide to let a company take the blog RSS feed
   and reformat it for cell phone display.

4. We want to avoid "collisions" of multiple articles on the same topic

   Contributors are asked to check the main weblog (force a browser 
refresh) 
   before writing and again before hitting the final "Publish" button. If 
   someone else has already posted on the same topic, contributors are 
asked 
   to post their views as a comment to the existing article. [2]

5. Of course, all articles must be your text (or appropriately quoted/
   attributed).

Assuming you are okay with those guidelines, we would love your 
contributions.

Note that we are looking for people willing to contribute with some 
regularity.
It could be a weekly posting... every other week... every day... every 
couple of days... even once a month.  We don't really care how often... 
it's just that if we give you a contributor account we would like you to 
commit to actually using it every so often.  Also note that you can easily 

get to a list of posts contributed by a given author by clicking on the 
link for the contributor's name on the right-side menu.  Your name will be
added there.

If you don't want to regularly contribute but do have an article that you
would like to post, feel free to contact me (dan.york at voipsa.org) and we
can see about one of us posting it as a "guest article" or something like
that.

Anyway, that is the deal and if any of you out there would like to 
contribute
to the weblog, please do drop me a note to "dan.york at voipsa.org" and we 
can
look at getting you set up.[3]

Regards,
Dan

[1] If there are any Wordpress gurus out there who want to dress up our 
weblog a bit (for instance, with a snazzy graphic on top or with 
contributor
pictures next to their articles) drop me a note.  As you can probably 
tell,
we're just using the default templates.

[2] Comments unfortunately *are* moderated because of the incredibly
annoying blog comment spammers out there.  At some point we'll set up a 
"captcha" tool or something that allows us to remove moderation.

[3] Note that Monday is a holiday here in the USA and I'm offline.

-- 
Dan York, CISSP
Dir of IP Technology, Office of the CTO
Mitel Corp.     http://www.mitel.com
dan_york at mitel.com +1-613-592-2122
PGP key (F7E3C3B4) available for 
secure communication

"David Endler" <david.endler at voipsa.org>
Sent by: Voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org
05/25/2006 10:19 PM

        To:     "gary madsen" <gmads.seclists at gmail.com>, <Voipsec at voipsa.org>
        cc: 
        Subject:        Re: [VOIPSEC] voipsa blog

Hi Gary,

We've been slowly building up some blog postings before opening it up to 
the 
outside world. The timing of your note is perfect though. Dan York, our 
newest VOIPSA exec, is in the process of signing people up and 
distributing 
the general content guidelines. Anyone interested in contributing to the 
blog should drop Dan a note at dan.york at voipsa.org with a very brief bio. 
Thanks,

-dave

David Endler
VOIPSA Chairman
http://www.voipsa.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gary madsen" <gmads.seclists at gmail.com>
To: <Voipsec at voipsa.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: [VOIPSEC] voipsa blog

>I see that VOIPSA now has a blog "voice of voipsa": 
>http://www.voipsa.org/blog
>
> Can anyone sign on to author or is this an invite only thing?
>
> Cheers,
> Gary
>
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