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Attendees: Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Garth Bruen, Gordon Chillcott , Evan Leibovitch, Glenn McKnight

Apologies: Eduardo Diaz, Darlene Thompson

Staff: Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Guber, Silvia Vivanco, Heidi Ullrich

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Summary Minutes: Summary Minutes 26 September 2012 

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Chat:        Chat 26 September 2012        

Recording:  ENGLISH    

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A G E N D A

1. Welcome and Roll Call  - Staff (2 mins)

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i. Sponsorship update (What currency was Afilias quoting in? EUR or USD? How much is final amt?) ~GB This has been clarified as USD 2,500

ii. Invitations to Keynote and other Speakers

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iii. Multi-media for the Outreach event - Update

Olivier needs list (?) from Staff of attending, long-term members to be issued certificates at this event. ~GB

Staff: Delete "coordination" column in Agenda table - COMPLETED (noted, Garth, Staff - delete this line, thx)

b. NARALO Capacity Building Meetings

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*What types of new members should be recruited? (Garth)

*Simple and meaningful terms that cross EN/ES/FR (Garth)

*Reaching out to Bermuda - CORRECTION, as noted by Evan Bermuda is part of EURALO, Guam will be targeted instead. (Garth)

*Expanding in the U.S. and Canada (Garth)

*Speeding up/Simplifying ALS membership: Better Application, Examination of the Process, Probationary membership. Using potential 2 ALSes as test subjects to review the process (Garth)

*Media: Simplifying and streamlining web interface. NARALO Facebook and Twitter.  (Garth)

*Integrate discussions from FCWG, R3(Evan & JJ), RRRWG (Holly), Compliance(Olivier, Evan, Carlton, Garth), Secretariats(Garth), new gTLD WG (Dev), Consumer brochures (Rinalia?) etc...

*YELLOW: how do we publicize this? Do we want other RALO's wearing yellow too? ~GB

Some of the above are policy questions for the Monthly NARALO call on Oct 8, which will need to occur. I believe some calls right before ICANN meetings were canceled, there is too much to do ahead of the meeting so we need a call. Also, Darlene will be back and needs to catch up.

Text from Budget Request:

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• Monday - Cross-RALO Dispute Resolution (Session facilitated by Chris LaHatte)
• Tuesday - (Sally Costerton?) ~GB
• Wednesday
• Thursday

Garth needs list of attendees to issue certificates to for participation in the capacity building sessions

Question: Is there a capacity building on Sunday? or is this just the newcomers/fellows meeting? (Glenn, via Garth) - Staff answered no. Meetings are Mon - Thur.

c. NARALO Table Top Display in ICANN Village

*Glenn & Staff: List of items to be displayed with links if possible

i. ICANN information booth can be used - What technical requirements are needed?

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*Draft outline of new slideshow format: 1. What we are (NARALO/At-Large), 2. What we do/have done, 3. Who we are (look for yellow and pin), 4. How to join (specifics simplified) - suggestions welcome. Will be splitting each section up to a member of this group. Garth = #4, Glenn = #?, Gordon = #?, Eduardo = #? (Garth)

*Web page with better representation of who we are: A structure with names, photos, and video links. Push-button on site to join should look like the pin(image of pin).

3. Update on Promotional Items - All/Staff (15 min)

a. NARALO banner - Reprinted banner (Staff add link pls, Garth)

b.  NARALO buttons

c. Invitation postcards - See draft postcard

cd. Meeting Guide text - See text in draft Meeting Guide (page 7)

de. Brochures - Update: Staff are bringing: 100 EN and 50 each of ES and FR.

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Was Dana Perry contacted by CT? (Garth)Phone number for ISOC CO?

Garth spoke to  ISOC CO and they will be supplying a name ASAP (Garth)

Question from ALS about per diem (Randy via Garth)

*Re-purposing surplus funds for other ALS activity, for discussion (Garth)

c. Creation of mailing list for NARALO Toronto Events Participants - Completed (see:naralo-toronto-request@icann.org)

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*Staff please list:Emerging Futures Network/Dharma Dailey on Web and spreadsheets (Garth)

*Listing unaffiliated as an ALS - for discussion (Garth)

*Reaching out out Consumer Reports (Garth will handle, contacts and suggestions welcome)

5. Next Steps

This meetings action items

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