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[Carlos A. Afonso]

Sir Drake, I agree with Dr Müller.

--c.a.

On 06/10/2013 10:49 PM, Milton Mueller wrote:
> Sir Bill
> I am sending this from an email account not subscribed to NCUC-EC, so
> please forward
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:55 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>> If that basic architecture doesn't make sense to you, suggest another.
>>   What would you dump—mentioning some issues and positions?
>>
>
> 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.
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>>   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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> Got any good photos? I like those ones of the famous "deferral moment" from
> the Costa Rica meeting myself!
>
>
> --MM
>