[NCUC-EC] Some impressions and ideas => Membership Affairs Team list

[Walid ALSAQAF]

Hi Bill,

I am totally with you on that. What I had in mind is an initial
brainstorming within MAT to have some clarity about certain steps to take
abd then bring those to the wider NCUC/NCSG field.

Sincerely,

Walid
On Jan 24, 2015 12:10 PM, "William Drake" <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Walid
>
> Great.  I think it would make sense if we could devote 30 minutes of our
> Constituency Day meeting to intra-organizational affairs (experience is
> that more than this bores certain veteran members who prefer to focus on
> policy not plumbing).  After introducing the new EC, I’d suggest the major
> focus be on discussing the MAT, member engagement, and the sorts of
> ideas João has put on the table. Assuming this is ok with you, it’d be
> sensible to try to push the MAT discussion along a bit to ‘prime the pump’
> and then come into Singapore with some concrete options/suggestions for
> activities in which participation can be solicited.  We’ll need in parallel
> to publicize the main parameters of this on ncuc-discuss, so that members
> who’ve not signed up to MAT are aware and hopefully more enticed to join
> remotely.  (Curiously we had well over two dozen remote participants in the
> DC outreach meeting, whereas our CD meetings rarely draw more than a
> handful of people…a number of these were not NCUC of course, but still it
> was quite a contrast...hopefully we can do better drawing RP to CD meetings
> if MAT spurs more sense of engagement).
>
> Bill
>
> On Jan 24, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Walid AL-SAQAF <wsaqaf at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Dear Bill,
>
> I agree that it is about time to start with a welcome message to the MAT
> list and take it from there. I have started working on a proposed form to
> be filled by members in order to better understand what needs to or could
> be done to engage members.
>
> I'll send the welcome email later today.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Walid
> On Jan 24, 2015 11:20 AM, "William Drake" <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi João
>>
>> Thanks much for taking the time to put down your useful thoughts.  I
>> would suggest you also send them to the Membership Affairs Team (MAT) list
>> so that they can be part of an ongoing thread of discussion and action
>> among concerned members.  I see we now have twenty people subscribed there
>> but no discussion has begun.  Let’s start to make use of the list!
>>
>> Walid, it would make sense for you as Coordinator to send some sort
>> welcome boot-up message to that list and solicit ideas about how to
>> proceed, no?
>>
>> Maryam, given that we now have 20 subscribers including all the EC, could
>> you please add the MAT list to the top of
>> http://www.ncuc.org/participate/working-teams/ in the same manner as the
>> others, with link to subscribe and Walid listed first as Coordinator?
>>  (also, while you are there, could you please delete that random sentence
>> at the bottom of the page on The NCUC Bylaws Revision Team, I don’t recall
>> how that got there but it serves no purpose and we won’t reboot that effort
>> for a month or so).
>>
>> On João’s concrete suggestions, again I think these should be discussed
>> by the MAT, but just some initial reactions:
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 7:21 PM, João Carlos Rebello Caribé <
>> caribe at entropia.blog.br> wrote:
>>
>> a) Keep online record on the status update of NCUC subjects, also the
>> description of subject.
>>
>>
>> Substantive policy work is done at the SG level in the GNSO context.
>> Rafik and before him Robin have been putting material on Confluence
>> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home, as
>> NCSG has no independent website.  What might make sense is to make some
>> definitive decisions on how to organize and update the relevant NCSG pages
>> and then put links to these from the NCUC site?
>>
>> b) Build one FAQ (Frequently Answered Questions) - easy and simple
>>
>>
>> I think this is a good idea, while there is a good bit of info on the
>> site now it’s probably not aggregated and optimized effectively for
>> newbies.  Best done in MAT with strong EC participation.
>>
>> c) Tutorial team - Create one group of veterans that can and wanna to
>> help and guide newcomers.
>>
>>
>> Sure, also MAT
>>
>> d) Develop one newcomers guide - who, when, where, what  and Acronyms
>> survival guide ( http://quizlet.com/subject/ICANN/ )
>>
>>
>> There’s some such stuff already done by staff for At Large that could
>> probably be repurposed, MAT should look at the site.
>>
>> e) Capacity Building through of http://learn.icann.org
>>
>>
>> Encouraging people to use that and linking from ncuc.org would seem
>> right.
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 8:53 PM, João Carlos Rebello Caribé <
>> caribe at entropia.blog.br> wrote:
>>
>> 1) Online FAQ - updated by members
>> 2) Online Tutorials and articles, writing by the members ( the beginnings
>> of social networks  principle)
>>
>>
>> I wish we could entice people to write even short bits for the website,
>> but calls for inputs have led nowhere before. If the MAT gets semi-active
>> maybe we can try again more effectively.
>>
>> 3) Creation of mailing list animators group - group of persons that was
>> focused on keep alive some hot topics, enhancing the newcomer's
>> participation (saying something like: good point, adding value to this
>> discussion, or in other cases giving the links for FAQ and/or Tutorials).
>>
>>
>> Interesting idea, if people will contribute the time, which is not much.
>> Again, MAT seems the place to discuss.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>
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