[Fwd: Re: [Ncu-exec] South America]

[Avri Doria]

hi,

Does this mean I should unvolnteer until we have a new EC?

a.

On 12 Sep 2009, at 14:17, Alex Gakuru wrote:

> I just looked up our Charter
>
> 2(3). Organization and Structure:
>
> "The Executive Committee, directed by the Chair, shall be responsible
> for the administration of the Constituency, including arrangements for
> meetings, website communications, listserv, and teleconferences...."
>
> Just wondering if we could task the new EC to prioritize development
> of a broader "ICT Policy" soonest after they assume office?
>
> regards,
>
>
> Alex
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Avri Doria <avri at ltu.se> wrote:
>> On 12 Sep 2009, at 10:44, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>>
>>> I am ready to help draft a project if some more people volunteer
>>> to help
>>> and we could try and seek funds for it (could ISOC/PIR fund it?)
>>> -- if
>>> people agree my suggestion (and my "weird" opinion on monetizers)
>>> makes
>>> sense, of course.
>>
>>
>> count me as a volunteer.
>>
>> there are a fair number of FOSS possibilities, but as anyone who
>> has worked
>> with FOSS options eventually learns, FOSS is not free it either
>> requires
>> either  sweat equity or hired help.
>>
>> so i can help with writing funds applications, but will also help,
>> to the
>> extent of my abilities, with investigating and setting up the FOSS
>> options
>> while waiting for deliverance from people with funding.  I will,
>> shortly
>> have a fair amount of volunteer time that was dedicated to gnso
>> council
>> chair  activities (averaging about 30 hours/week for anyone who
>> contemplates
>> such a role) that i can dedicate some part of to this task.
>>
>> as for the principle of not giving my info to those who collect it
>> for data
>> mining,  it is a personal weakness (i use a google phone and gmail
>> and
>> twitter and ... after all) but i have already given up on that from a
>> personal perspective (i use a google phone and gmail and twitter
>> and ...
>> after all).  i tend to think we need to worry about the laws that
>> let them
>> use it as opposed to their abilities to collect it.  but i have no
>> issue
>> with helping others avoid the surrender i have already made.
>>
>> and apologies if i insulted anyone by mentioning that if they had
>> the time
>> for the role they had the time for ...
>>
>> a.
>>
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