You are here: Home → 2007p
Log in


Forgot your password?
New user?
 

The ESF-FSE process site

On the ESF-FSE process site organisations who participate in the European Social Forums can prepare and manage activities and proposals for initiatives. Activities and proposals can then be submitted to social forums events or other decision processes.
This process site is part of a wider project on the memory of the European Social Forums and how to use it for new activities.

Site member

The greater part of the process site functionality is accessible only to logged-in site members. We thus invite you to register as a site member. At any given time, a site member can act only as a participant into an organisation.

Register as site member

To register, fill the registration form accessible through the 'join' link on the site home page. The compulsory fields are indicated with the  sign. Choose your user name (also called login) in the 'User name' field. You will receive your password in an email sent to the email address that you have indicated. Please keep this message that will make it possible for you to find back your user name and password if you have forgotten it. In principle, you should receive the message with the password very shortly after submitting your registration. If after a few hours, you still haven't received it, it could be that is has been filtered by an anti-spam filter. Please then contact website-en-us@wsfprocess.net to get advice on how to remedy that situation.

Log in the site

To log in, just fill you user name and password in the page accessible from the 'Log in' link or directly in the small 'portlet' on the left side of the home page.

Change your password and manage your personal information

You can access this functionality by clicking on the 'preferences'.

Finding back your password when you remember your user name

Click on 'forgotten password' on the home page.

What if you also forgot your user name?

Contact website-en-us@wsfprocess.net mentioning the email address you registered with. Do not re-register under another user name as the access and use rights that you need to use various parts of the site are attributed to a given user name.
back to top / leave help

Organisation

An organisation represents an existing entity (association, union, etc.)
It has a dedicated workspace where its participants can manage documents relevant to the organisation, collaborate on working documents for instance through comments, email lists, etc. When organisations wish to prepare activities with other organisations, that is done through creating a group that has its own workspace. (see Group).

Register as an organisation participant

Collaborative work using the site is only possible for participants into organisations and groups. To become a participant into an organisation you must:
  • Ask to participate into the organisation, or
  • Be invited to join as a participant into the organisation, or
  • Register a new organisation (when you are authorized to do so)
Participation status:
There are 3 states for participants into an organisation:
  • Pending. This temporary status results from:
    • Either a demand to become a participant issued by a site member. In this case the participant will become 'active' after administrator approval.
    • Or an invitation by the organisation admninistrator. In this case the participant will become 'active' as soon as s/he has accepted the invitation.
  • Active. This is the ordinary status for a participant into an organisation. An active participant can view the list of all participants in the organisation.
  • Administrator for the organisation. This is the status of the site member who first registered the organisation. S/he can do administration tasks such as:
    • Invite a site member (who then becomes a 'pending' participant)
    • 'Activate' pending participants who have asked to participate in the organisation.
    • Turn an active participant into an administrator.

Acces and Edit the organisation profile and contents

Organisation contents
Documents, folders, files, images and links created in the organisation workspace.
Organisation working mode
Only active participants and administrators can access and edit the organisation contents. It is also dependent on the chosen working mode for the organisation. There are two types of organisations:
  • In 'centralised' organisations only administrators can edit contents. Active participants can access contents and comment them. (see 'Comment contents in an organisation workspace' below)
  • In 'decentralised' organisations, active participants can edit contents as well as administrators.
Only administrators can swith from one working mode to another.
Comment contents in an organisation workspace
The possibility for active participants and administrators to add comments to contents is defined on a per document basis. Depending on the working mode chosen for the organisation, those participants who have the rights to edit documents can also decide to open them for comments. Only administrators can delete comments.
Search for organisations
You may search for an organisation using its name, its working mode, its activity field or any combination fo these criteria. You can also use the full-text search interface of the site (see Full-text search in the site)
Register an organisation
You can register an organisation if it has authorised you to do so. You will then be the first administrator for this organisation.

Mailing list

Participants of an organisation can communicate through the organisation mailing list. Each organisation has one. It is dispayed as a tab of the organisation. To learn more about the use ot mailing list see mailing-list.
back to top / leave help

Group

A group brings together participants from one or several organisations. Its aim is to prepare activities (for instance in view of a social forum). Functionality for a group workspace are similar to those of an organisation workspace.
Note: Participants within a group always act as representatives of an organisation. For instance one can not participate into a group before becoming an active participant into an organisation. In case you belong to several organisations, you will be asked to indicate the organisation you are representing in the group in order to access the group workspace. see also Organisation
back to top / leave help

Activity

Presentation

An activity is a special kind of content for an organisation or group. It represents an action put forward by the participants, for instance a workshop or cultural event within a social forum. In the site, an activity corresponds to a folder associated to information describing it (name, type, domain of activity, etc). In this folder preparation documents can be imported, created, worked upon or commented. This folder is a subfolder of an organisation or group workspace.

Submit the activity to a specific event

To submit an activity to a particular event (like Athens' 2006 European Social Forum), you must first enter some information about how the activity is meant to take place in the event. To do so pick the right event in the 'add content' drop down box. You will then be able to fill in specific information related to that particular event. After this is done, you can use the 'state' drop down to submit this content to the event. Event managers will then get in touch to continue the submission process.
back to top / leave help

Proposal

A proposal is a special kind of content for an organisation or group. It represents a concrete proposal (campaign, action or alternative policy measure) that is put forward by the participants. In the site, a proposal corresponds to a folder associated to information describing it (name, type, range, etc). In this folder preparation documents can be imported, created, worked upon or commented. This folder is a subfolder of an organisation or group workspace.
back to top / leave help

Multilingual content

Organisations, groups, activities and proposals

To describe the organisations, groups, activities and proposals, you can use one of the 8 languages of the site but we suggest you also translate them into at least one language used on an international level.

Translate content

To create a translation of your content or an organisation or group: first create the original content and then use the top right dropdown 'translate into' to create another version of the content in another language.

Content

You can use any language to create documents, files etc. Whenever you create a translation of a content, the translation is shown as a new content next to the original document. The original content is the "master" content. Any operation such as changing the state or cutting and pasting should be done on the master content and not on the translations content. Translations can only be deleted.
back to top / leave help

Full-text search in the site

This functionality is accessible from the 'search' field found in the up right corner of all pages in the site. Using this functionality, one can only access documents for which one has access rights: even if other pages can be retrieved, they can not be displayed. Note that full-text search are language-dependent. A query for 'farmers' will not return documents with 'campesinos'. Only queries using the special search mechanisms based on predefined keywords can work across languages.

Examples

  • farm retrieves all contents in which the farm word appears but not those with 'farmer' or 'farmers'.
  • farm* retrieves all contents in which words starting by 'farm' appear, for instance farmer or farmers.
  • farmer GMO retrieves all contents in which both the words farmer and GMO appear.
back to top / leave help
actions