[NCUC-DISCUSS] Update from your EC representative at NCUC

[Ayden Férdeline]

Dear Farzaneh,

Thank you for this detailed update on your activities in the first quarter of
2016. We in Europe are very privileged to have you as our representative on the
Executive Committee.
I read in your summary of the lessons learned from the CPDP conference that it
is important to emphasise that membership in the NCUC is free. I agree with this
and do hope it can be added to the NCUC website and brochure. I was wondering,
however, if we have considered translating the NCUC's website into more
languages? I see that the brochure is available in 8 languages, which is
brilliant, but I probably would not think to download this resource if I hadn't
been handed one at ICANN 54. I think it would be useful to have core website
content, like the membership criterion and the about pages, available in
languages other than English.
During the Pre-ICANN 55 Policy Update Webinar last week, Ariel Liang shared a
link to the new At-Large website. Their new website is beautiful, filled with
content, and has translation tools embedded within it (admittedly these are
auto-translation tools which aren't great - but they're a start). I asked if
this design was a template available for deployment to other constituencies and
Ariel replied in the affirmative, saying that other community groups are free to
customise the design and to change elements of it based on their individual
needs. Might we be able to explore the possibility of refreshing our website,
perhaps using the At-Large template as a starting point?
Regarding the opening on the Steering Committee on Improvements to GNSO, may I
please ask, who is currently or was most recently our representative on this
committee? How long is their appointment for? And are they appointed by the
NCUC's EC or by another body? (This only serves my own curiosity - I am not
looking to nominate myself for this role at this time.)
Many thanks for all that you do, Farzaneh. It is very much appreciated.
See you in Marrakech,
Ayden
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Maryam Bakoshi < maryam.bakoshi at icann.org > wrote:
Dear NCUC European Members
As promised, I am writing to you another email to update you on my activities
and inform you about recent announcements.
1. In January, I attended an intersessional meeting of the GNSO Non Contracted
Part House (NCPH) in Los Angeles. The GNSO is made up of contracted (registry
and registrars) and non-contracted members (CSG & NCSG). These are the
contracted and non-contracted “houses” of the GNSO. NCUC is of course part of
the non-contracted house. I have attached a brief report. If you would like to
know more please do not hesitate to contact me. The travel to this event is funded by ICANN - it includes EC members as well as
GNSO Council members and if there are slots available some other members can
attend as well. Here is the link to the event https://community.icann. org/pages/viewpage.action? pageId=56149573

2. We have announced CROPP. CROPP (Community Regional Pilot Programme) is a
special funding for NCUC members to do outreach at a specific event in their
region. The recipient should do outreach for NCUC. As I told you before, the
European CROPP slot is already allocated however please if you have a conference
in mind that you would like to do outreach at, send in your proposal and we can
see if we can allocate funding to you after considering other applications.
Proposals for outreach in South East Europe are welcome.
3. To take advantage of CPDP, http://www. cpdpconferences.org/29012016/ cave.html meeting, I went to Brussels before CPDP to do outreach with some other NCUC
members for NCUC. We organized an outreach meeting at the ICANN office. ICANN
funded my accommodation and transportation, I paid for my airfare. A brief
report for this meeting is attached.
4. I will send highlights of the Morrocco meeting to NCUC mailing list.
5. We also need a candidate for GNSO SCI (Steering Committee on Improvements to
GNSO), If you would like to apply please let me know.
6. We have funded some members to go to ICANN55 meeting at Morrocco. Each If you
need information on how to request for funding to go to ICANN meetings and what
sort of justification you need you can visit http://www.ncuc.org/ participate/ncuc-travel- support/ You can also contact me for any further information.
Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. farzaneh.badii at gmail.com --
Farzaneh
Many thanks, --Maryam Bakoshi

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