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• Staff Acknowledgement: ICANN At-Large Staff were actively engaged in the process of building the Toronto event and made many of the suggestions which resulted in positive results and engagement. For this we thank them for their time and dedication.
  
  
• Event Committee: This very successful meeting is was coordinated through weekly teleconferences by the NARALO volunteer committee starting in August 2012, the membership being: Darlene Thompson, Glenn McKnight, Gordon Chillcott, Eduardo Diaz, Garth Bruen; Olivier Crepin-Leblond and Evan Leibovitch.  ICANN Village Table Top (Report from the Table Top):
  
  
• The Slideshow Sub-committee (Garth, Glenn, Eduardo, Gordon) Slideshow http://www.slideshare.net/gmcknight/naralo-slideshow
  
  
• Meeting  Reports: At-Large Toronto Meeting Reports
• The Outreach (Monday): http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34281
• New gTLD working group
• NOMCOM
• At-Large Meetings From Toronto: At-Large Meetings - Monday, 15 October 2012, Sunday Leadership Meetings: At-Large Meetings - Sunday, 14 October 2012
• Secretariats Meeting
• Recruitment Activities:

  Chair sent personal invitations to potential unaffiliated members: Murray M., Peter K., Roy B., Alain B., Andrew M. Get all ISOC U.S. Chapters in NARALO

• Capacity Building Sessions - Towards a Communication Strategy (review each for issues and action items)

i. Community Communications (Monday)
ii. Recruitment (Tuesday)
iii. Communication Strategy I - Internal (Wednesday)
iv. Communication Strategy II - External (Thursday)

• The following brief report comes from NARALO Member Annalisa Roger on the Women in the DNS session: 
  
  "The Women in the DNS met alongside ICANN North American meetings in Toronto. A breakfast room filled by 7 a.m. Monday morning, October 15, just prior to ICANN's opening meeting with  enthusiasm to support each other, to network, and to reach out to local business women. Founder Karla Valente and the original advisory group met later in the week to further develop the mission and ability to serve its growing membership, which will include a website. The group was founded at the March 2009 meeting in Mexico and has met every ICANN meeting since then, growing in number. The Toronto breakfast was sponsored by Uninett, DotGreen, and Neustar. Local Canadian Joan Kerr, Director of FBSC.org in Canada, gave an inspiring address about her own experience developing programs that unite women to support their achievements and others. The event provides an opportunity to meet and connect early in the week, promoting further dialogue in other Law and Policy Forums during the ICANN assembly. The meeting is an integral and popular way for women, typically outnumbered in the industry, to make connections and deepen their interaction with the ICANN community. The next meeting of the DNS will be Monday morning of ICANN in Beijing, China. For more information, visit LinkedIn and Facebook.com/DNSWomen."
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• The following brief was submitted by Glenn McKnight on the ICANN Village NARALO Table:
  "The table was effective. We organized the time slots  in DOODLE and staff supplied a eye  catching pull up banner and the brochures for the table top. The  NARALO Outreach table was staffed by volunteers from 10 to 3 o clock from Monday to Thursday outside the ICANN reception zone permitting it to be a "go to place" to talk to NARALO members and gather information and application forms. Each of the sponsored Naralo  ALS's who attended the capacity sessions  did a supreme job in signing up on was a great demonstration at low cost ( banner and printing) to reach out and inform the ICANN community our role and presence. Those volunteers who were volunteer their time away from busy sessions include: Garth Bruen,  Monique Chartrand, Gordon Chillicott,  Edwardo Diaz,   Randy Glass, Louis Houle,,  Joan Kerr,  Glenn McKnight, Dana,Perry, Annalisa Roger,  Gareth Shearman and  Alan Skuce. Special  acknowledgement needs to be made  to  four special individuals.  Monique Chartrand, Gordon Chillicott, Gareth Shearman and Alan Skuce who really shouldered alot of the load at the booth and they the extra mile picking up the slack for other members who were obligated at various meetings." Photos

5. ICANN Functions - Documenting NARALO perspectives on ICANN's functional areas will be a standard part of this report. Suggestions and questions should be sent to the Chair.

• Compliance: The Chair will solicit and forward to staff lists of concerns about Compliance.
• Language, Translation, and Interpretation: The Chair will solicit and forward to staff lists of concerns about Compliance.
• Travel : Shuttles for overflow hotels/Compliance with disability standards?Support: The Chair will continue to be proactive in monitoring the effectiveness and response of ICANN Travel Constituency. ICANN TC has been helpful in resolving some issues. At-Large understands that coordinating travel for an ICANN meeting is complex endeavor. In order address problems quickly and provide useful feedback, the Chair has been accepting and forwarding all travel related complaints. Most individual issues have been resolved. However, one item is of continuing concern, namely shuttles to and from overflow hotels. The Chair was not aware there were no shuttles from non-venue hotels and assumed their would because shuttles were provided at other ICANN meetings. This was of specific concern for At-Large members who were required to appear at 7AM meetings Monday - Thursday. At-Large members had to take taxi cabs which could have cost up to $156CAN for the whole week, a not insignificant portion of the Per Diem. We are also concerned about compliance with disability standards whereas members with mobility issues may be better served by shuttle buses as opposed to expectations that they seek public transportation. Questions concerning the lack of shuttle buses have been forwarded to At-Large Staff and noted in the October Monthly Call Action Items. Another issue being examined is wire transfer fees for directly deposited Per Diems. The policy concerning wire transfer fees is not clear, some believe ICANN should bee paying the transfer feed on these deposits. This is also an action item from October's call.
  

NARALO Monthly Report - September 27, 2012

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