<div dir="ltr">Hi Bill,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Shame about Kathy. If last years <span class="" style>IGF</span> is any indication the odds of remote anything working properly is..well, remote.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>At present I have just four speakers lined up because I wanted to see how this issue evolves, so in principle can add up to two more. This is probably advisable with Kathy presenting remotely, you never know if there'll be glitches. The question is who. I've had expressions of interest from Google and Peter Dengate Thrush, which would be good for the dialogue but leave us with a unduly skewed (Northern) demographic. Another option might be to use the travel slot to bring someone from a developing country who's deep into this issue, although I had trouble identifying non-usual suspects for the Durban discussion. And I don't know if ICANN would accept giving the support to a non-NCUC member, in which case the panel would then skew too heavily toward NCUC members….ay yi yi.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If we were going to fund a non <span class="" style>NCUC</span> member it would be nice if it could be someone with whom we'd have a relationship going forward: someone from a nonmember CS institution who could be prompted to join us or an individual in a position to help our policy objectives. A trip to Bali could be used as leverage to achieving other goals. That said, would using the funding for a nonmember give <span class="" style>ICANN</span> pause before providing funding in future years?</div>
<div><br></div><div>It might be worth giving <span class="" style>Pranesh</span> <span class="" style>Prakash</span> a shout to see if he can think of anyone from a developing country with an interest in the issue. Nothing on the <span class="" style>CIS</span> website but...</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for our membership you're aware of the interests and strengths of everyone far better than I. Joy comes to mind as someone who could argue either side with equal conviction (!). Given she was in Baku, as were most of our Counsellors and senior leadership, I'm thinking she may already be funded. That's something we need to be careful of: we want to use the <span class="" style>ICANN</span> funding to bring someone in who will contribute yet without support would not otherwise be able to attend. Shame we can't split the awards...</div>
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<div><br></div><div>b) Targeted Non-Speaker Solution: identify someone from the NCUC clan who could come and help in other ways, e.g. outreach. Could be EC, Council, or general members. Self-nominations welcome.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'll self nominate myself but only because I have schedule availability. We can and should do better than me.</div><div><br></div><div>I do have thoughts on what needs to be done, regardless of who is there to do it. We should take a look at what <span class="" style>NPOC</span> did last year and do the opposite. Nothing against <span class="" style>NPOC</span> - kudos they actually had a session - but we can do better. I have confidence you'll put together a panel with folks who know how to speak: after you did your 10 or so minutes (the content of which which would dovetail well with Milton's History of the <span class="" style>NCSG</span> if there were a video of it out there somewhere we could put on our site) and left for another engagement the presentations were sleep inducing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Beyond that, <span class="" style>NPOC</span> did no branding of the session. To the extent permitted by the <span class="" style>IGF</span> we should have signage up front identifying who we are, brochures and paper membership applications and pens quickly placed on every seat prior to our session and a box to collect the applications at the exit. Simply giving out our email address won't work. Bertrand and Paul did a nice job in introducing the <span class="" style>IJ</span> project in Baku using many of these techniques. You left the <span class="" style>NPOC</span> session not knowing who put it together. You left the <span class="" style>IJ</span> session feeling part of Bertrand's extended family. We should aim for the same.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for publicity sheets...of course, colour paper, printed and distributed in advance. Will <span class="" style>ICANN</span> provide the printing support and, perhaps, give us the resulting sheet in Bali? As for distribution, remember Beijing and remember never again.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If we go the non-speaker route, Brenden comes to mind as someone who would be an excellent choice. Perhaps we could sort out some way to even exhibit the movie somewhere in the exhibition hall...</div>
<div><br></div><div>On another matter, <span class="" style>Megi</span> <span class="" style>Margiyono</span> from Indonesian Users Advocacy applied for institutional membership months ago. I don't see him on our membership list or on the applicant list. Am I missing something? It might be nice to have someone local that could help with logistics. Anyone know what happened to his application in <span class="" style>NCSG</span>-land?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ed</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>