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Thanks, Cedric!<div><br></div><div>The <a href="http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/page/charter-1">NCUC Charter</a> contains more specific info about duties of Executive Committee Members and GNSO Counsel Representatives.</div><div> <a href="http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/page/charter-1">http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/page/charter-1</a></div><div><br></div><div>For the Executive Committee (EC), I estimate that it takes 5-10 hours of volunteer time per week, and the term is one year. EC members should help with membership and conduct outreach to their own geographical regions, approve budgets, ballots, handle appeals, appoint representatives to the Nominating Committee, PIR Committee, and similar other duties.</div><div><br></div><div>The GNSO Council Representative is generally more work than EC - both in the time commitment and expected output. GNSO Councilors volunteer from 10-20 hours per week (some weeks less, and during ICANN mtg weeks, much more). The term is for TWO years for GNSO Council.</div><div><br></div><div>ICANN has finally agreed to provide constituencies with a minimal level of travel support so we can bring 3 people to ICANN meetings. NCUC's policy is to use that support to bring our 3 GNSO Councilors to the meeting (if they don't already have their travel costs covered from somewhere else, like a university or NGO). If a councilor doesn't travel or need funding from NCUC, we can allocate that travel funding slot to another member who needs to be at the meeting and has no other means of getting there, like an EC member or a member active in a GNSO working group that will be the hot topic at the ICANN meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing I'd for us to do more of in the next year, is fund raising so we can bring more members to ICANN meetings. It is very frustrating for the commercial constituencies and ICANN staff to complain about "how small NCUC is" in attendance numbers at these ICANN meetings. Of course it costs $2-4k to bring a body to these meetings and as there is no economic interest supporting our participation (by definition), we don't get the same kind of numbers in person at ICANN meetings that we have who participate in the mailing list and within the constituency otherwise. So our lack of physical presence at ICANN meetings continues to perpetuate the myth that NCUC is "small", even though we have 154 noncommercial organizations and individuals as members.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know if you have any more questions on this. Considering our incredible membership growth in the last year, we should have quite a few fine candidates from all regions and in all positions.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 6, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Cedric Laurant wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Hi Milton, Robin and others,</div><div><br></div><div>Could you tell how much of a commitment it represents (hours/week), for how long? (one or two years or less?) and if there is any financial expense to be foreseen (e.g., travel for meetings) or are they reimbursed by ICANN?</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry if someone else has already made you those questions before. It might be useful to explain what such a commitment concretely means.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Cedric</div><div>---</div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080">Let me also emphasize that people should not be bashful about nominating themselves, or at least expressing interest on the list.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080">In many cultural and political contexts, self-nomination is not considered to be so good, and of course it is better if 5 or 6 people want you to be the Council rep not just yourself. But this is a large group now and frankly most of us have no idea who is willing and able to devote time to this thing. And it does take a lot of time and commitment to serve on the Council. So if you are interested I at least would appreciate it if you let the rest of us know.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080">--MM (speaking entirely for myself)</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><hr size="2"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="-1"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Non-Commercial User Constituency [<a href="mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>]<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On Behalf Of</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Robin Gross<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:08 AM</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="-1"><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Nominations procedures?</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Thanks, Norbert.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Multiple nominations are no problem at all. </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Nominations should be send to the main NCUC list.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Robin</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">On Sep 6, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Norbert Klein wrote:</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"><br><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Thanks for the "NCUC Elections 2009 - Nominations Now Open" info, it said</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">which positions are to be filled, but I missed to see whether we can send</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">one or multiple nominations, and where to send the nominations. We do not</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">have much time - I hope for further instructions soon.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Norbert Klein</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font size="-2" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font size="-2" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font size="-2" color="#000000">IP JUSTICE</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font size="-2" color="#000000">Robin Gross, Executive Director</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font size="-2" color="#000000">1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font size="-2" color="#000000">p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font size="-2" color="#000000">w:</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ipjustice.org"><font size="-2" color="#000000">http://www.ipjustice.org</font></a><font size="-2" color="#000000"> e: </font><a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org"><font size="-2" color="#000000">robin@ipjustice.org</font></a></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font size="-2" color="#000000"><br><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><x-sigsep><pre>--
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