<p dir="ltr">Dear Bill,</p>
<p dir="ltr">I agree that it is about time to start with a welcome message to the MAT list and take it from there. I have started working on a proposed form to be filled by members in order to better understand what needs to or could be done to engage members.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'll send the welcome email later today.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sincerely, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Walid</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2015 11:20 AM, "William Drake" <<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi João<div><br></div><div>Thanks much for taking the time to put down your useful thoughts. I would suggest you also send them to the Membership Affairs Team (MAT) list so that they can be part of an ongoing thread of discussion and action among concerned members. I see we now have twenty people subscribed there but no discussion has begun. Let’s start to make use of the list! </div><div><br></div><div>Walid, it would make sense for you as Coordinator to send some sort welcome boot-up message to that list and solicit ideas about how to proceed, no?</div><div><br></div><div>Maryam, given that we now have 20 subscribers including all the EC, could you please add the MAT list to the top of <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/participate/working-teams/" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/participate/working-teams/</a> in the same manner as the others, with link to subscribe and Walid listed first as Coordinator? (also, while you are there, could you please delete that random sentence at the bottom of the page on The NCUC Bylaws Revision Team, I don’t recall how that got there but it serves no purpose and we won’t reboot that effort for a month or so).</div><div><br></div><div>On João’s concrete suggestions, again I think these should be discussed by the MAT, but just some initial reactions:<br>
<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 23, 2015, at 7:21 PM, João Carlos Rebello Caribé <<a href="mailto:caribe@entropia.blog.br" target="_blank">caribe@entropia.blog.br</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;line-height:19px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><div>a) Keep online record on the status update of NCUC subjects, also the description of subject. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></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" target="_blank">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><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;line-height:19px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><div>b) Build one FAQ (Frequently Answered Questions) - easy and simple</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>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 MAT with strong EC participation.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;line-height:19px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><div>c) Tutorial team - Create one group of veterans that can and wanna to help and guide newcomers.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Sure, also MAT</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;line-height:19px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><div>d) Develop one newcomers guide - who, when, where, what and Acronyms survival guide (<span> </span><a href="http://quizlet.com/subject/ICANN/" target="_blank">http://quizlet.com/subject/ICANN/</a><span> </span>) </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></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><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;line-height:19px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><div>e) Capacity Building through of<span> </span><a href="http://learn.icann.org/" target="_blank">http://learn.icann.org</a> </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Encouraging people to use that and linking from <a href="http://ncuc.org" target="_blank">ncuc.org</a> would seem right.</div><div><br></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 23, 2015, at 8:53 PM, João Carlos Rebello Caribé <<a href="mailto:caribe@entropia.blog.br" target="_blank">caribe@entropia.blog.br</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue';line-height:19px">1) Online FAQ - updated by members</div><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue';line-height:19px">2) Online Tutorials and articles, writing by the members ( the beginnings of social networks principle)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></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 semi-active maybe we can try again more effectively.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue';line-height:19px">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></blockquote><div><br></div>Interesting idea, if people will contribute the time, which is not much. Again, MAT seems the place to discuss.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>