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October 2017

• ICANN 60 TTF F2F meeting on October 31 ; LACRALO mailing list tool deployed ; October 2 TTF call 

The TTF had a F2F meeting at ICANN60 - Abu Dhabi on October 31 2017

Meeting page (where transcripts and recordings are posted) : https://schedule.icann.org/event/CbJW/at-large-technology-taskforce-working-group

TTF Presentation / Slide Deck for ICANN60 TTF session :

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Also, LACRALO mailing list tool was deployed October 6 - ICANN IT continuing to monitor deployment. One bug identified w.r.t spacing when using <DNT> tags

2017-10-02 At-Large Technology Task Force Call

1. TTF Policy Tracking Proposal and discussion on Policy Management Process System   (30 mins)
   
   1. About the Action Request Registry project at ICANN - Liane Champagne
   2. Reference : At-Large Technology Taskforce presentaion August 8 2017 on Policy Tracking and thoughts on Policy Management Process System.pdf

2. Review At-Large Technology Issues Page (15 mins)

3. Update on the TTF subprojects (10 mins)
   Preliminary slides on conferencing solutions https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UoQbYh14gr6PlwagcThU85DTLzbhR7ZfxL1zTlhg6I0/edit?usp=sharing
   Looking at redesign of the At-Large Technology Taskforce Working Group main page
   How At-Large should use group chat ( https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bY-O_QWe8S-G7braIGXndxcG03sMqtCSUoqJhhwUROU/edit?usp=sharing)

September 2017

2017-09-18 At-Large Technology Task Force Call

1. Review At-Large Technology Issues Page -

2. Update on the Preliminary slides on conferencing solutions https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UoQbYh14gr6PlwagcThU85DTLzbhR7ZfxL1zTlhg6I0/edit?usp=sharing (10 mins)
3. Looking at redesign of the At-Large Technology Taskforce Working Group main page (10 mins)

August 2017

The 2017-08-07 At-Large Technology Task Force Call discussed the TTF Policy tracking proposal and the ideas behind a Policy Management Process System, an ATLAS II recommendation.

Re: LACRALO mailing list translation tool, work ongoing to see the new tool deployed before ICAN60. Draft slides for a webinar and possible survey being worked on.

June 2017

The TTF had a session at ICANN59, see recording at http://sched.co/B49U and TTF ; Presentation: 

April 2017

Held a followup call with ICANN staff on the discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues on how the issues can be resolved by ICANN59

Next TTF call will be on May 8 2017

March 2017

The TTF held a session at ICANN58 Copenhagen. The agenda :

• Introduction to the Technology Taskforce
• Selected Technology Issues
  • LACRALO translation
  • Adobe Connect recordings
  • Adobe Connect connectivity
• Discussion of the Policy Tracking Proposal submitted by TTF to ICANN
• Update on Captioning Pilot Program
• How should At-Large use Group Chat Applications (Slack, Hipchat, Mattermost, Rocket.chat)
• What is your Technology Issue

The recording for the TTF session can be found at https://schedule.icann.org/event/9noW/at-large-technology-taskforce

The slides of the TTF presentation (also available for download as a PDF At-Large Technology Taskforce Monthly Reports )

February 2017

New TTF Staff member Mario Aleman was introduced

Resolved some issues on the Technology Issues pages

Created a separate page to track Adobe Connect issues

Discussion of the Special Budget request and the policy tracking tool

Testing and presentation of Mattermost

Testing and Presentation of Meeting Echo

January 2017

Resolved some issues on the Technology Issues pages

Created a separate page to track Adobe Connect issues

Discussion of the Special Budget request and the policy tracking tool

Update on captioning pilot

Discussion of the meeting APP survey tool

December 2016

On the 2016-12-12 At-Large Technology Taskforce Call, reviewed the At-Large Technology Issues Page and tested the exit Poll feature of Adobe Connect.

On a 2016 Dec 14, the TTF chair had an update with ICANN staff re: the LACRALO translation mailing lists - that the developers had finished a level of bug fixes. 

• the updates to the translation tool will be put to the http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/new-transbot-en/ and http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/new-transbot-es/ lists
• A round of testing can be announced on TTF list (and a mention on LACRALO if persons want to join) to do testing over Xmas/new year on the new transbot-en and es lists
• any bugs noted would be added to the https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues wiki page
• by mid January on a TTF call, we can review the results of testing and note any showstopper bugs that would delay deploying into production
• if no showstopper bugs have a special purpose call for LACRALO to announce the changes, show the improvements and noting limitations and best practices for LACRALO members when posting.

November 2016

The TTF met at ICANN57 Hyderabad https://icann572016.sched.com/event/8cwP

• An overview of the TTF was presented
• Year in Review and upcoming work the TTF will be looking at
• Mark Segall gave an update on the discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues with the developers continue to troubleshoot and test the translation tool. There was a suggestion from Anivar Arivand whether the At-Large lists should move to Mailman 3 from the Mailman 2 currently used for the At-Large mailing lists
• There were questions re: the ICANN Meeting App and the Sched.com event site

October 2016

On the 2016-10-10 At-Large Technology Taskforce Call, Josh Baulch from ICANN Staff was on the call to share with the TTF the changes to how ICANN uses Adobe Connect and Technology Issues related to Adobe Connect

September 2016

On the 2016-09-19 At-Large Technology Taskforce Call ,

• James Gannon from NCUC demoed the NCUC chat (powered by the open source Rocket.chat)
• The developer hired by ICANN to fix the discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues has begun work. We will continue to follow the progress of this next month.
• We've added the challenges/issues related to the polling feature in Adobe Connect on the At-Large Technology Issues - a call will be held with ICANN Staff (Josh Baulch) to discuss this issue and the changes to Adobe Connect next month.
• We've noted the beta Adobe Flash Player 23 which is in sync with the Flash Players for Windows and Mac and TTF members will be testing this beta Flash player.
• Next month, Lutz Donnerhacke will have a special TTF call on PGP
• The TTF co-chairs (Dev Anand Teelucksingh, Glenn McKnight, Judith Hellerstein) along with Ariel Liang from ICANN At-Large Staff had a call to review and streamline the TTF Consolidated Action Items

August 2016

On the 2016-08-08 At-Large Technology Taskforce Call,

• ICANN staff said a developer has been hired to fix the LACRALO-mailing-list-issues.
• Stuart Clark, TTF member implemented on his own server the eXo platform, an open source colloboration platform (see the2 min YouTube video about eXo). eXo looks to be a possible solution for ATLAS II Recommendation 26 and a call for volunteers to help text and report on eXo will be done.
• Guest speaker Errikos Pitsos , lead developer of Kialo demoed Kialo which allows for persons to discuss Kialo which can allow persons to debate the pros and cons of issues. This can be a possible tool for address ATLAS II Recommendation 31
• This call offered ES interpretation in response to requests for ES translation by three or more members

June - July 2016

At ICANN 56 Helsinki meeting (http://sched.co/7Mdz), James Gannon and Rafik Dammak discussed the NCUC chat platform, powered by Rocketchat, an open source group chat platform (similiar to Slack)

May 2016

2016-05-23 At-Large Technology Taskforce Call. Discussed At-Large Technology Issues and received feedback on remote participation, an update from Staff on the conversion of AC recordings to MP4 format. We also reviewed and updated the ATLAS II recommendations

April 2016

On the TTF call on At-Large Technology Taskforce 2016-04-18, discussed with ICANN Staff several of the issued noted on the At-Large Technology Issues page. This call was captioned as part of the At-Large Captioning project.

On this call, feedback was given to ICANN staff regarding the issue of "the ability to export Adobe Connect recordings from Flash only recordings to formats like MP4 which can be edited and put on video sharing websites for easier resharing and more accessible
for the At-Large community"

This issue is important because Adobe Connect recordings in Flash are unplayable on mobile and tablet devices whereas MP4 files can be playable on mobile, tablet and PCs. Also, playing an Adobe Connect recording on a PC with Flash installed is cumbersome compared with
experiences on video sharing websites like YouTube.

Based on the suggestions given by the TTF on the April 18 2016 call (https://community.icann.org/x/UTmAAw), ICANN has configured their Adobe Connect account to allow for ICANN staff (at no additional cost) to export Adobe Connect recordings to MP4 format.

At-Large Staff are currently testing the process to convert Adobe Connect recordings to MP4 and to upload to YouTube. Here's the recording of the At-Large Technology Taskforce conference call on April 18 2016 on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3rstINbZJo

Also, Since the call for TTF volunteers to test the new translation tool for At-Large mailing lists was posted in late Feburary 2016, several persons responded and were added to the new transbot mailing lists to
do testing. These persons are listed on the https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues page.

Since then, several bugs have been identified. These bugs are also documented at https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues

At the TTF meeting at the ICANN55 meeting in Marrakech (https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ttf), Chris Gift from ICANN introduced Mark Segall (who was attending remotely at the time), a new person at ICANN as a
Delivery Manager, Community Services and thus would be the point person to direct enquiries regarding the issues of the LACRALO mailing list translation.

Mark Segall has been made aware of the bug reports on https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+FY17+Budget+Development+Workspace
and has noted that this item needs to be formally classed as a services that ICANN IT supports. So ICANN is currently putting the team needed to support, including seeking an outside developer to help with fixing outstanding bugs.

This is pretty much what the TTF budget request for ICANN's FY17 was asking for, and which was approved by the FBSC and submitted to ICANN Finance. See the approved budget proposal at
https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/54696459/Fixing-LACRALO-Mailing-List-FY17-Community-Request%20Rev2.docx

March 2016

The TTF met at ICANN55 Marrakech, transcripts and recordings can be found at https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ttf and you can view the TTF presentation  At-Large Technology Taskforce Monthly Reports

February 2016

No call this month given the proximity of the Marrakech meeting. Re:  LACRALO mailing list issues, the volunteer staff person at ICANN has submitted some patches to the code for the new translation mailing lists, a call for LACRALO members to help test this code was done.

January 2016

Had a conference call on At-Large Technology Taskforce 2016-01-18 where we continued to review At-Large Technology Issues with ICANN Staff who have been made aware of several issues facing the ICANN At-Large Community.

Also, on this call, reviewed a budget proposal for submission to the FBSC for ICANN to hire a programmer to help fix the LACRALO mailing list issues. The proposal was submitted to the FBSC and can be viewed at https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/54696459/TTF-fixing-LACRALO-Mailing-List-FY17-Community-Request.pdf . 

The Translation Tools wiki was updated to note the Skype Translator features now builtin to the latest version of Skype for Windows.

A number of  reports from participants

Captioning Project Update-Judith Hellerstein 

The pilot will begin in February.  We have received so far 4 requests for captioning for the three available slots and will be choosing the three events using the criteria developed by the captioning team.  We have submitted a budget request for FY 17 to extend the pilot and also to expand it to cover additional languages as we have gotten requests for Spanish captioning

Ebook Project Update- Glenn McKnight

The ebook  project  has  researched the various tools to create an Ebook.  One of the deliverables is the creation of  a  EBOOK: How To Manual

1. How to create an EBOOK 
http://online.fliphtml5.com/mebb/ecuk/ 

A number of  ebooks have been created in cooperation with  Maureen Hilliyard of  APRALO 

Here is the link to the books  based upon the  Working Group Slideshows
https://apralo2015.wordpress.com/at-large-webinar-ebooks/

2. Working Groups  Part One

http://online.anyflip.com/xqto/ftpc/mobile/index.html

3. Working Groups  Part Two

http://anyflip.com/xqto/miuf

4. ALS and Volunteer Engagement Within Work Groups

 http://online.anyflip.com/xqto/fyvf/

5. Introduction to the  Technology Taskforce
http://online.fliphtml5.com/mebb/ofwq/

6. IANA Function

http://fliphtml5.com/mebb/mkis

7. ALS  Beginners  Guide

http://fliphtml5.com/mebb/ylxw

8 New Membership Guide to ALAC

http://fliphtml5.com/mebb/lwes

9 CCWG Draft Accountability Proposal 

http://fliphtml5.com/mebb/wnav
Includes  Spanish Audio track

10 NARALO  Slideshow
http://online.anyflip.com/wluv/ecsf/ 

December 2015

On the At-Large Technology Taskforce 2015-12-14 call, we talked about At-Large Technology Issues with ICANN Staff who have been made aware of several issues facing the ICANN At-Large Community.

We also discussed some possible budget ideas that could be submited for FY17 and Post ATLAS II Implementation - Technology Taskforce reporting and how the reporting will be done.

Work is ongoing on the presentation/report on conferencing solutions.

November 2015

Reviewed ClickMeeting, on November 11 2015. Clickmeeting (http://www.clickmeeting.com/) is a conferencing solution that shares similar features to Adobe Connect but offered additional features such as multilingual chat. Feedback on Clickmeeting can be found on the ClickMeeting wiki page.
A Google doc on the Comparison of webconferencing solutions has been started.

On At-Large Technology Taskforce 2015-11-16, we had David Goulet of the TOR Project to talk about the TOR Project. This session was well attended as the event was promoted to the At-Large, NCUC and ISOC Delegates. See At-Large Technology Taskforce 2015-11-16 for the recordings and presentations from this call.

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The At-Large Technology Taskforce (TTF) held its session on Monday June 22 2015 at ICANN53. Agenda page and slides can be found here: https://community.icann.org/x/V5o0Aw
The detailed presentation was a good measure of the work put in by the cochairs Glenn McKnight and Judith Hellerstein and TTF members.

An electronic version of  a TRAVEL TIPS  for BA  was produced and emailed to all and hard copies distributed.

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There was also continuing discussion on the topic of information capture from various sources for the WIKI.   This resulted in a recommendation that the current effort be directed to investigating what information is to be captured and how.   Inclusion of this information on the WIKI would be studied later.