<div dir="ltr"><div>Sir Bill<br></div>I am sending this from an email account not subscribed to NCUC-EC, so please forward<br><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:55 AM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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If that basic architecture doesn't make sense to you, suggest another. What would you dump—mentioning some issues and positions? <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Basic and more generic. We are the voice of civil society in ICANN (screw ALAC if they don't like it, we are), we support freedom of expression, privacy, rights, and uphold noncommercial values. We describe a thing or two we have actually done, like challenging TM power grabs or fighting for bottom up process. We use imagery and color to make us look cooler and more exciting than the others. And we provide the key contact information: URL, email address for joining, names/emails of EC and glorious picture and personal mobile phone number of our fearless leader. <br>
</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As to production: the point of using ICANN is not just financial, but reducing the work. We send them text, tell them to add art and a paragraph of ICANN boilerplate, and a brochure appears.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Holy moly, you want ICANN - ICANN!?!? - to choose the artwork? No, please. We have to control our own image. Anyway, if I know production processes of this sort, the only way to do this in a way that doesn't guarantee errors and tears is to give them what we used to call "camera-ready copy" and just let them print it. <br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> If you guys would really prefer to do the extra work of collaborating with someone on the art design (Ed has suggested someone you could try) and then contracting with a printer and paying them and taking delivery and sending it on to Durban or to someone who's coming to Durban, that' is fine by me. </blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>My preferred option would be to tell ICANN that we will give them a finished layout by the required time and they will print 1000 copies of it. You might want to make 100 color copies yourself in Geneva just to be safe. If Ed can deliver the designer, let's you and I work out copy by the end of this week. The designer can work with Lorem Ipsum in the meantime. <br>
<br>Got any good photos? I like those ones of the famous "deferral moment" from the Costa Rica meeting myself!<br><br><br></div><div>--MM</div></div><br></div></div></div>