1. International Forum of Meteorological Societies IFMS
The IFMS website
Proposal of the IFMS-GM1 Working Group
and current status
Dominique Marbouty (EMS)
Handzettel – rot für nein, grün für ja 1

2. Background
IFMS-GM1 set up a working group to develop the logical structure and the content of an IFMS web site
Composition of the WG:
Fritz Neuwirth, European Meteorological Society, chair
Walter Dabbert, American Meteorological Society
Paul Hardaker, Royal Meteorological Society
Emmanuel Rohinton, Glasgow CaledonianUniversity
Mark D. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin
Hans Volkert, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
AMS offered to implement and maintain the website
A structure was agreed and distributed on 6 August 2010
Part of it have been implemented. Current status is analysed hereafter 2

3. Map of the website, as proposed by the WG
Home
About IFMS
Member Meteorological Societies
News
Organisation
Throughout the document the following convention is used:
Green = done, updated
Orange = partially done
Red = not done, empty 3

4. Map of the website – About IFMS
Purpose and objective
Short history, reasons for establishment of IFMS
Basic document, term of reference
Steering Committee (1)
Committees
Inventory of Meteorological Societies around the world
Inventory of related Societies
(1) The area exists but is not linked from here 4

5. Map of the website – Members (1/2)
Member Meteorological Societies
Short profile of the relevant society
Established since
Purpose, objectives
Number of members
Main activity
Publications
Reports
Online resources
Contact persons
Link to homepage
Only a list of member societies,
with no specific information
about each of them 5

6. Map of the website – Members (2/2)
Societies related to Meteorology
Short profile of the relevant society
Established since
Purpose, objectives
Number of members
Main activity
Publications
Reports
Online resources
Contact persons
Link to homepage 6

7. Map of the website - News
News from member societies
News from international relevant meteorological organisations
Conference calendar
Jobs
Titles only, nothing under each title 7

8. Map of the website - Organisation
Planning meeting
Global meetings
IFMS-GM1
IFMS-GM2
Steering Committee
Steering committee members
Steering committee description
Membership request 8

9. Thank you for your attention
Discussion
Do we want to develop the website ?
How can we ensure this development happens ?
Should we limit our ambition to what will be feasible ?
Should it be mainly a collection of links, except for IFMS organisation itself ?
Thank you for your attention 9

10. IFMS website - Conclusions
Remove outdated or empty areas
Collect list of all met societies
Collect relevant info about societies (template, in English)
Update website accordingly: basic info + link (AMS) 10 10

11. IFMS website – propose (11 Nov 2011, e-mail)
'Home' page: - is fine 'About' page: - I would suggest to remove the links to 'Short History' and 'Reasons for establishment of IFMS' as this is in fact addressed in the text 'Purpose and Objective' - Under 'Basic Documents' I would add a link to a page to be created to 'IFMS Charter'. This page would simply replicate the corresponding text that appears on the Home page - I would remove the link 'Committees' as there is no other committee than the Steering Committee - I would also add a link to a page 'Membership Request'  to be created (see below) 11 11

12. 'Members' page - this will be updated with Lan's input
'Members' page - this will be updated with Lan's input. Each Member Society's name should be a link to a page where the basic information for that MS is provided, including a link to the MS's homepage - I would also add a link on the left of that page to 'Membership Request' 'News' page - I would simply remove the whole page altogether, including the mention of it on the top band for the whole website as we recognised in Xiamen that we probably cannot maintain such a page 'Organization' page - The part 'Membership Request' needs to be completed. It should include 1) A short text describing the conditions for membership: I suppose the text in the charter is fine (membership in the Forum will be voluntary and open to all national and regional meteorological and closely related professional/scientific societies) 2) the information to be provided when applying for membership (i.e. the template information to be provided by each member society) 3) where to apply. I would suggest that application be sent to the chair of the steering committee

13. Template for member societies
_____________________________________________________ Name of the society:      (in full) Acronym:                          (if relevant) Country or region: Established since:           (year) Number of members:      (individuals, corporate/associate members) Website:                            (a link will be provided from the IFMS website) Contact:                             (name, function, , address) Purpose and objective:    (a few sentences/words describing                                             the goals and activities of the society) Publications                      (journals, newsletter) _____________________________________________________