<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;">Hello<br>
<br><div><div>Since most everyone subscribed to this list is also subscribed to NCSG-discuss, you will have seen Rafik’s welcome message to new NCSG members. 9 of the new individual members also elected to join NCUC, which our EC has now approved, and Stefi has added them to this mail list. So we welcome</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jeremy Malcolm<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Malaysia</div><div><div>Raitme Citterio<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Venezuela</div><div>Sherly Haristya<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Singapore</div><div>Sandra Braman<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>USA</div><div>Seun Ojedeji<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Nigeria</div><div>Lea Kaspar<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>UK</div><div>Philip Adar<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Kenya</div><div>WISDOM KWASI DONKOR<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ghana</div><div>Chirag Gupta<span class="" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>USA</div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div><div>Greetings to all, great to have you on board. Please feel free to introduce yourself to colleagues here and share any particular interests and activities related to NCUC, ICANN, etc. </div><div><br></div><div>Just a reminder, the ncsg-discuss list is for stakeholder group-wide discussions on GNSO issues and processes, while this ncuc-discuss list is for the constituency only and focuses on our internal views and positions on these and other ICANN/Internet governance, as well as our intra-organizational development. </div><div><br></div><div>You’re joining at a particularly frenzied moment in ICANNland, and many of us are still recovering from the ICANN Singapore meeting, where NCUC organized a very successful and well attended cross-community conference <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/">http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/</a> [videos at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/NCUCtv/videos">https://www.youtube.com/user/NCUCtv/videos</a> and transcripts forthcoming at <a href="http://singapore49.icann.org/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig]">http://singapore49.icann.org/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig]</a> as well as a busy Constituency Day meeting <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Singapore+meeting+2014-03-25">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Singapore+meeting+2014-03-25</a> that included a visit from Larry Strickling and Fiona Alexander from the US government to discuss the IANA transition [audio and transcript at <a href="http://singapore49.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-ncuc]">http://singapore49.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-ncuc]</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Like many other civil society networks, we are now organizing for the NETmundial conference in Sao Paulo 23-24 April <a href="http://netmundial.br">http://netmundial.br</a>. As I noted yesterday, probably before you were added to the list, </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ICANN staff are asking who from NCUC (& other groupings) will be at <a href="http://netmundial.br">http://netmundial.br</a> in Sao Paulo 23-24 April, in the event there’s critical mass to organize any sort of pre- or post-meeting events. <br><br>At the same time, we might want to connect ourselves—while the weeks’s schedule is packed with civil society and academic meetings on the days before and after NM, who knows, maybe we could at least organize a caipirinha together. At a minimum we could establish a chat space for electronic blabbing.<br><br>I know of a number of people who are going and others who've said they wanted to if travel support materialized, but I don’t know the final tally. I’d put up a page on the Confluence wiki (as At Large and probably some other groups have done), but people might not all have accounts. So instead, here’s a simple Doodle<br><br><a href="http://doodle.com/3axp7s5vrgkq9x8r">http://doodle.com/3axp7s5vrgkq9x8r</a><br><br>Please fill in if you’re coming to Sao Paulo and want to connect.<br></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>So if you’re coming to NM, please do do the Doodle.</div><div><br></div><div>More to come, obviously…</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></div></body></html>