[NCSG-Discuss] NCUC News: Teams and Listservs

[Alain Berranger]

Dear Bill, dear Colleagues,

I argued and pleaded, to no avail until today, to have separate NCUC and
NPOC email lists ever since I joined NCUC as an individual member and
Fundacion Chasquinet joined NPOC as an organizational member, around July
2011 and 832 NCSG-Discuss emails later!

As an individual member interested in the three strings of discussions:
NCUC, NPOC and NCSG, it will not reduce traffic for me but it will for most
NPOC members representatives who are not individual members of NCUC.

 I'm quite happy to finally see a consensus developing towards accepting my
original request. NCUC and NPOC folks can do their Constituency affairs on
dedicated lists and  NCSG-Discuss will be reserved for NCSG issues.

Good news and thanks to Bill for taking the lead and the initiative!

Alain

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:02 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>wrote:

> Dear NCUC members,
>
> After quite a lot of preparatory discussion in the EC and beyond, we are
> now ready to begin taking steps to build a bit of organizational
> infrastructure in the hope this will strengthen the constituency and by
> extension its advocacy in ICANN.  This message concerns two of those steps,
> the formation of teams to deal with functional tasks, and the establishment
> of listservs both for the teams and the membership generally.
>
> At the end of this message is the initial list of NCUC members who've
> volunteered to work in standing or ongoing teams and ad hoc or temporary
> teams.  Many thanks for your willingness to help out.  In the event that
> other NCUC members subsequently decide to consider participating, included
> in each case is the email address of the team's coordinator.  Each team
> will be largely self-directed but maintain communication with the EC via
> shared members and reporting as needed. Each will work out its own agenda
> and timeline taking into account EC input and the parameters set by the
> calendars of NCUC, NCSG, and ICANN.  Presumably decision making should
> involve rough and hopefully more consensus within the team and with the EC
> as needed, and there should be mechanisms developed for refreshing
> coordination, reporting to and seeking input from the general membership,
> and so on.  We'll work out the details as we go and strive to ensure
> everyone's informed and can weigh in to taste.
>
> A foundational issue we faced in getting this going is creating
> communication spaces for the teams.  Hence the e-platform team already has
> been having extensive discussions on a number of fronts.  In the weeks and
> months ahead we'll tackle the big long-term questions like what to do with
> the ncuc.org and Confluence sites, whether to make use of new platforms
> configured how, establishing a holistic approach to locating and
> administering our resources, etc.  In the short-term here's what we've
> decided.
>
> First, Tapani has created listservs for each of the teams, and people who
> volunteered will have received subscription invitations.  Again, other
> members who get interested can be in touch with the teams' respective
> coordinators whenever.  The optimal size may vary across cases, we'll cross
> these bridges when we come to them.  We may down the line co-locate all our
> lists and hence move the archives etc., TBD.
>
> Second, we've reached agreement in the EC and EPT (uh oh, new acronyms
> coming….sorry) on establishing a new ncuc members listserv (double sorry).
>  As you probably know, from 2003 - 2010 the present listserv was
> NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU, then with the formation of NCSG and NPOC
> it became NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@ and finally NCSG-DISCUSS at .  Many folks
> thought we should have a single listserv to discuss GNSO/ICANN matters and
> that there wasn't a need for a NCUC-specific list.  However, when NCUC
> people did need to communicate with each other (as in this message) there's
> been nowhere else to do it, and some NPOC folks have objected to
> constituency-related traffic on the shared list.  Fair enough, and now that
> we're hoping NCUC will be getting more active on intra-organizational
> matters, there's really no getting around having a separate list, as NPOC
> does.  So in the next few weeks we'll be setting this up, and will be back
> to you about the details of the transition.  Yes, sorry, this will mean one
> more list for NCUC people to be subscribed to, but that's what filters and
> folders are for, and it's not clear there will be a particularly noteworthy
> aggregate increase in mail with two lists.  But we do need a space to
> communicate, and there's no reason for NPOC folks to have to be
> skipping/deleting our internal messages.
>
> More to come…
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
> ---------------------
>
> *Standing teams*
> *
> *
> *E-platforms*
>
> Wilson Abigaba  [Coordinator] <wilson at isoc.ug>
> Avri Doria
> Bill Drake
> Brenden Kuerbis
> Edward Morris
> David Cake
> Sarah Clayton
> Tapani Tarvainen
> *
> *
> *In-reach/member engagement*
>
> Edward Morris   [Coordinator]  <edward.morris at ALUMNI.USC.EDU>
> Rafik Dammak
> Bill Drake
> Amr Elsadr
>
> *Outreach/new member recruitment*
>
> Edward Morris   [Coordinator]  <edward.morris at ALUMNI.USC.EDU>
> Alex Gakura
> Bill Drake
> Nuno Garcia
> Olga Kortokova
> Roy Balleste
>
> *Communications/PR*
>
> Mary Wong [Coordinator]   <Mary.Wong at law.unh.edu>
> Bill Drake
> Sarah Clayton
>
> *Finance*
>
> Maria Farrell  [Coordinator] <maria.farrell at gmail.com>
> Anthony Nweke
> Bill Drake
> Brenden Kuerbis
> Milton Mueller
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
>
> *Ad Hoc*
>
> *Charter Revision*
>
> Bill Drake [Coordinator] <william.drake at uzh.ch>
> Edward Morris
> Grace (Bomu) Mutung'u
> Olga Kortokova
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
> *Beijing Conference Program *
>
> Wolfgang Kleinwächter  [Coordinator] <wolfgang at imv.au.dk>
> Hong Xue
> Bill Drake
> Milton Mueller
> Robin Gross
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ***************************************************
> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
>   www.williamdrake.org
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
> william.drake at uzh.ch
> ****************************************************
>
>


-- 
Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
Member, Board of Directors, CECI,
http://www.ceci.ca<http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/>
Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca
Treasurer, Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, www.gkpfoundation.org
NA representative, Chasquinet Foundation, www.chasquinet.org
Chair, NPOC, NCSG, ICANN, http://npoc.org/
O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824
Skype: alain.berranger


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