<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">On João’s helpful suggestions, some initial reactions:<br class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 27, 2015, at 3:07 PM, João Carlos Rebello Caribé <<a href="mailto:caribe@entropia.blog.br" class="">caribe@entropia.blog.br</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; "><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">a) Keep online record on the status update of NCUC subjects, also the description of subject. </div></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Substantive policy work is done at the SG level in the GNSO context. Rafik and before him Robin have been putting material on Confluence <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home</a>, as NCSG has no independent website. What might make sense is to make some definitive decisions on how to organize and update the relevant NCSG pages and then put links to these from the NCUC site?</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><div class=""><div class="">b) Build one FAQ (Frequently Answered Questions) - easy and simple</div></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div class="">I think this is a good idea, while there is a good bit of info on the site now it’s probably not aggregated and optimized effectively for newbies. Best done in Membership Affairs Team (MAT) with strong EC participation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><div class=""><div class="">c) Tutorial team - Create one group of veterans that can and wanna to help and guide newcomers.</div></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Also MAT</div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><div class=""><div class="">d) Develop one newcomers guide - who, when, where, what and Acronyms survival guide ( <a href="http://quizlet.com/subject/ICANN/" class="">http://quizlet.com/subject/ICANN/</a> ) </div></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>There’s some such stuff already done by staff for At Large that could probably be repurposed, MAT should look at the site. </div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><div class=""><div class="">e) Capacity Building through of <a href="http://learn.icann.org/" class="">http://learn.icann.org</a> </div></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Encouraging people to use that and linking from <a href="http://ncuc.org" class="">ncuc.org</a> would seem right.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><div class=""><div class="">2) Online Tutorials and articles, writing by the members ( the beginnings of social networks principle)</div></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I wish we could entice people to write even short bits for the website, but calls for inputs have led nowhere before. If the MAT gets active maybe we can try again more effectively.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><div class=""><div class="">3) Creation of mailing list animators group - group of persons that was focused on keep alive some hot topics, enhancing the newcomer's participation (saying something like: good point, adding value to this discussion, or in other cases giving the links for FAQ and/or Tutorials).</div></div></span></div></blockquote></div><div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>Interesting idea, if people will contribute the time, which need not be much. Again, MAT seems the place to discuss.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>