[NCUC E-team] NCUC Membership Update Needed

[William Drake]

On Mar 13, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO> wrote:

> On Mar 12 21:39, William Drake (william.drake at uzh.ch) wrote:
> 
>> Any chance we could at least get the correct math onto the Ning site
>> before the Beijing meeting?
> 
> I'm presently trying to sort out the member list, comparing the roster
> with ning members and ncsg-discuss list and ncsg application data.

Many many thanks

think you should copy Robin on this stuff until we've reached the point of having it clean and no need for institutional memory…she can tell you stuff
> 
> The roster is apparently hand-made, there's lots of typos in names and some
> members are listed twice, so the math you got isn't quite right either.
> 
> But fortunately (?) we've got so few members it won't take too
> long to get them sorted out, including getting email-addresses
> for at least almost all, so we can start the ncuc-discuss list soon.

Fabulous.  Before Beijing, ja?  So that plus the VPS would be two concrete deliverables for the first quarter, not a bad start.  Progress on website, current or pending, would be a third.

And in Beijing, I hope to spend a chunk of time booting up a bylaws revision team effort...

BTW heard today from Wilson who's been under the weather but should be back too.  Ed still gone to ground.  We need to start planning for Beijing, what we'll be presenting on Constituency Day...
> 
> Whether it's worth doing anything with Ning, I don't know,
> though just fixing the numbers shouldn't be too hard.

Well, if we are not going to have a new site up by 9 April, then I'd suggest fixing the numbers and inserting the "teams" for the old "groups.  That'd be something to point to and encourage participation.  If instead a new site can be up, great….

BD
> 
> Tapani
> 
>> Removing the old groups and inserting the new teams would be also very groovy…just as a point of discussion…
> 
>> On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:58 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I was going to send this to the Inreach team list, but not everyone of relevance is there.  Plus I thought others might want to know...
>>> 
>>> It occurred to me that it would be useful to have accurate membership numbers to refer to in LA.  So I looked at http://ncuc.org/page/membership-roster.  Two things jumped out at me.
>>> 
>>> First, the count is short.  The page says "NCUC's membership has reached 204 members from 62 different countries, including 86 noncommercial organizations and 118 individuals."  But the list looked longer to me, so I copied it into text editor and clicked numbered list and here is what I got:
>>> 
>>> 83 Organizational members
>>> 
>>> 181 Individual members
>>> 
>>> 264 members
>>> 
>>> Better than we're claiming (although yes some culling will be needed, I see a few cases).  And better, at least on paper, than the Internet Governance Caucus in IGF and the CSISAC in OECD, and perhaps even ALAC (I saw a message from Olivier recently saying 151 ALSes, although if you look closely many tiny or totally disengaged etc. there too……wouldn't know how to count individual At Large people).  
>>> 
>>> Second, the list is short.  It does not include folks from the last NCSG EC intake of new members, e.g. Bytes for All (Pakistan), Sarah C, Olga K., Anthony N., etc.
>>> 
>>> May I ask:
>>> 
>>> a. Going forward, could our reps on the NCSG EC please let the Inreach team know each time there are new NCSG members (generally) and of those indicating a desire to be NCUC (particularly).
>>> 
>>> b. Could someone from NCSG EC or other who has a record of recent additions please send them to Wilson (above) so the membership list can be updated before we go to LA?
>>> 
>>> c.  It'd also be nice to have an accurate number on the "how many countries" to bandy about.  Is there a list with countries attached to it that can be passed to Ed and Wilson?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> 
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