[NCUC-DISCUSS] Update On Community Outreach Resources (CROPP) For FY16- Traditions and Changes

[Maria Farrell]

Thanks, James!

Will ping you.

On 26 May 2015 at 15:16, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:

>  I’m sure I can assist in any planning for a Dublin shindig. Let me know
> whats needed.
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> -James
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> *From:* ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org [mailto:
> ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org] *On Behalf Of *Maria Farrell
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:14 PM
> *To:* William Drake
> *Cc:* membership-affairs at lists.ncuc.org; NCUC-discuss
> *Subject:* Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Update On Community Outreach Resources
> (CROPP) For FY16- Traditions and Changes
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> Hi Bill,
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> Thanks! You're right - we should consider all the options and see what
> interest/support others have for what kind of event, and take it from
> there. I'd really appreciate getting it on the constituency day agenda -
> will ping Rafik.
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> I will check with Rob and Janice re. process and deadlines for applying
> for funding so we can keep all options open in the meantime.
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> Cheers, Maria
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> On 26 May 2015 at 14:52, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
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>  Hi Maria
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>  On May 26, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Maria Farrell <maria.farrell at GMAIL.COM>
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> Hi Bill,
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> It may be worthwhile to do a 'Friday before the meeting blow-out' in
> Dublin, because:
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> a) I and I think a couple of other people (James....?) would be willing to
> do the bulk of the organising, and
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> People willing to take the lead is always a strong point to a proposed
> meeting :-)
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> I’d love to see something happen in Dublin. Only question is what.  The
> basic choice again is a) a two hour outreach to civil society event on
> Saturday, funded through other staff budget, like we’re doing in BA; or b)
> a full day Friday conference with panels and lots of non-CS people etc,
> which we’d have to apply for and which would preclude using the CROPP money
> for travel.  Personally I’m totally open to whatever people can all get
> behind.
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> Our Constituency Day meeting in BA is four weeks from today, 16 June.
> Maybe we can try to squeeze in a little discussion there (schedule’s dense,
> alas) and then contemplate this further online afterwards…?
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> Best
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> Bill
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>    b) Dublin is EU HQ for a good number of tech firms, e.g. Twitter just
> came under the Irish data protection office's auspices last week, so there
> is both interest and need to get local civil society involved and informed.
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> All the best, Maria
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> On 26 May 2015 at 08:47, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
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>  Hello
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> CROPP is the program mentioned here and at Constituency Days a number of
> times over the past couple years that provides funds for up to 5 people
> from NCUC and other groupings to send people to non-ICANN meetings in their
> regions to do outreach.  In FY15 we submitted 5 applications, 4 approved
> and one pending. https://community.icann.org/display/croppfy15/NCUC+Drafts As
> you can see from the below, even with this growth (in FY14 we submitted 0
> proposals), At Large still makes much more abundant use of these than GNSO
> constituencies.  Going forward it would seem worth taking advantage of the
> opportunity if there are good meetings that could be high yield in terms of
> outreach and recruitment.
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> Staff also offer an alternative use of funds as of FY16, to organize a
> one-time community Outreach/Engagement Event instead of doing conference
> travel.  This could be considered if we wanted to propose a big full day
> event like the policy conferences we organized in Singapore, Toronto and
> San Francisco http://www.ncuc.org/events/conferences-and-workshops/.
> These take a good deal of work to pull together and tend to draw ICANN
> insiders from other parts of the community more than non-involved civil
> society types for recruitment, but if there is some feeling that we’d like
> to do a Friday-before-the-meeting blowout in Dublin, Marrakech or wherever
> the June 2016 meeting will be, we could consider the feasibility.  If
> instead we are content to continue on the path we’re on now, with two-hour
> outreach events geared toward civil society scheduled on meeting Saturdays
> and supported through a different staff budget (as per the London and
> upcoming Buenos Aires meeting), then we could use the CROPP for conference
> travel per usual.
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> A more immediate action item: Staff have established a new requirement for
> FY16—in order to remain eligible, we must submit an Outreach Strategic Plan
> by 30 September 2015.  Staff is developing a template for these.  I would
> think that the Membership Affair Team would be the appropriate vehicle for
> this effort, and hope members gathered there will take the bull by the
> horns when the template is ready.
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> Best
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> Bill
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