knitters needle

[Avri Doria]

Dear Alain,

I did not, and do not, argue for  an NCUC list or for the NCSG Discuss list to be used only for business.

What I argue for is a NCSG news only list for those who find the NCSG Discuss list's hurly burly a bit off-putting.  Unlike some of my colleagues I do not beleive we need to force people into the open marketplace of ideas with all of its quirks and discomforts.  I beleive participation in the NCSG DIscuss list should be voluntary.  And, therefore, beleive we need another list the NCSG Chair and GNSO Secretariat can use for required notifications.

Personally I think NCSG Discuss is a great list, and the more people that say something, the happier I am.

I am ambivalent about NCUC and NPOC discuss lists being separate. I periodically check out the NPOC list, and I have not felt envy at NCUC not having such a list.

As for the dotgay LLC party, it wasn't that I invited NCUC and NPOC, it was that I invited a few friends. And they spread the word to others - nothing to do with constituencies or SGs.  In fact most of the gatherings at ICANN are just groups of friends aggregating.  I have noticed that NPOC members do seem to have a affinity group mostly centered around the IPC and others.  I am happy for you all, we all need affinity groups to belong to.  Had I noticed people being all alone and forlorn, I am sure my caretaker instincts would have kicked in and I would have tried to include them in some activities.  I just don't see that; since the beginning of NPOC, its members have always seemed to have good relationship with various groups in CSG, so I never really worried about it.  If anything I might have been somewhat envious of that, as CSG has never reached out to the NCUC in that manner.  I think in all my years at ICANN, even the 5 years when I was a nomcom appointee, before I committed the sin of joining the NCUC  (well documented in the archives of the g-council), I have never once been invited to an IPC event.  I guess we just hang with different groups.  

Not that I am NCUC or NCSG social secretary, in fact that is a role I would be terrible at.

avri


On 4 Jul 2012, at 02:34, Alain Berranger wrote:

> Hi Avri,
> 
> It is clear to me too that NCUC/pre NPOC NCSG is a community of some kind - I just don't quite grasp its essence yet, but what is sure is that I don't yet feel part of it.
> 
>  Looking back to Prague, at no times were any of the 5 NPOC members there made to feel full members of that community. For instance, at your own dot gay event at the sky bar, all NCUC members present were invited, but not a single NPOC member was invited. When NCSG EC had informal gatherings, never once were NPOC members included. That said, NPOC members there did not lack social interaction with other Constituencies.
> 
> Yes Avri, you and I agree on the need for an NCUC email list for the NCUC community.. Keeping NCSG list for building the new NCSG community made out of both NCUC and NPOC members.
> 
> Alain
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, July 3, 2012, Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry to hear that.
> It is part of what makes us a community instead of just a SG.
> 
> Would have enjoyed hearing your voice as well.
> Though I guess I just did.
> 
> BTW:  I still think we need an announce list of the news and only the news for those members whole don't like all the touchy feely group, aka unprofessional, participation.  I would like the NCSG EC to reconsider its decision from last year not to create such a list.
> 
> avri
> 
> On 3 Jul 2012, at 11:13, Michael Carson wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Whoever is in charge of adding/removing email addresses to this listserv, I am requesting that my email address be removed.
> >
> > This sort of exchange is fruitless, a waste of time and unprofessional.  This is not the first time I have received these types of email exchanges.
> >
> > Again, please remove my email address.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael Carson
> > YMCA of the USA
> >
> > From: "Ginger Paque" <gpaque at GMAIL.COM>
> > To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 9:28:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: knitters needle
> >
> > I have never had my knitting needles taken from me on a flight. I do use circular needles, to avoid poking my seatmates, but have never had the needles questioned except by other envious knitters who come up to me and say: What??? We can carry our knitting needles on the plane?
> >
> > I think a knit in is a spectacular idea. I will have a project with me in Baku, and can bring extra needles and yarn for those who want to learn to knit :)
> >
> > Cheers, Ginger
> > Ginger (Virginia) Paque
> >
> > VirginiaP at diplomacy.edu
> > Diplo Foundation
> > Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme
> > www.diplomacy.edu/ig
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3 July 2012 09:48, Andrew A. Adams <aaa at meiji.ac.jp> wrote:
> > William Drake suggested:
> > > When the IOC folks were speaking in Prague it'd have been great if a
> > > bunch of people could have pulled out knitting needles…maybe Toronto?
> > > Some street theatre is always good for a meeting…
> >
> > Nice idea. You'd have to find a local supply (or have someone bring hold
> > baggage to bring in a bunch) though, since AFAIK knitting needles are amongst
> > the terrible deadly weapons currently banned from being taken onto planes in
> > the war on tourism. ICANN meetings are short enough that lots of attendees
> > may well be flying hand luggage only (I know I would be).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
> > Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> > Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
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