NARALO Monthly Report - October 2012 (in progress)
- October Monthly Call Occurred as scheduled 8 October 2012
- Working Group Analysis Working Group List: At-Large Working Groups
- Going forward the Chair will review the NARALO Operating Principles regularly to ensure we are working within these parameters and create a running commentary here so all members are aware of these principles (there are 18). The first principle being: "The North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) promotes and assures the North American user participation in the ICANN policy development process. It is formed by the unaffiliated individuals who meet the requirements under rule 17 and by those North American At-Large Structures (ALSs) accredited by the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC)."
- Toronto ICANN meeting
- 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)
5. ICANN Functions
- Compliance:
- Language, Translation, and Interpretation
- Travel: Shuttles for overflow hotels/Compliance with disability standards?
NARALO Monthly Report - September 27, 2012
Preparations for Toronto ICANN meeting
The NARALO Toronto ICANN planning organizing committee has been meeting via teleconference weekly since 1 August 2012, committee chair: Garth Bruen; committee members: Darlene Thompson, Glenn McKnight, Gordon Chillcott, Eduardo Diaz, Garth Bruen; Olivier Crepin-Leblond and Evan Leibovitch providing assistance. See: Toronto NARALO Events Organising Committee call 2012.09.26 for details. This has included creating the agenda for the NARALO anniversary/outreach/showcase event: NARALO Showcase Event: Toronto (Glenn McKnight has raised $10k from sponsors to provide catering and music), the Mon-Thur capacity building sessions: NARALO Capacity Building Sessions Workspace, organizing an table for the ICANN village geared at recruitment of new ALSes, coordinating with staff on Promotional Items, coordinating with staff on Planning the Logistics especially travel sponsorship for NARALO ALSes.
The group has recruited at least 20 NARALO members to attend this meeting. Glenn McKnight is organizing volunteers to run the ICANN Village Table at different intervals. In terms of the outreach event, staff has assisted in coordinating 3 sponsor speakers at this event from CIRA, Google and Afilias.Staff has assisted in coordinating the incoming ICANN CEO to present a welcome speech at this event. ALAC Board Member Sebastien Bachollet and ALAC Chair Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond will also be speaking. Invitations for this event will be distributed to new potential ALSes at the Sunday morning http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34111. The Monday event will be 7:00PM - 8:30PM in the Regatta room.
For the capacity building sessions staff has assisted in coordinating ICANN Ombudsman Chris LaHatte and ICANN VP for Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Sally Costerton to facilitate at these meetings.
Secretariats Meeting
The Secretariats meeting will occur on Wednesday at the ICANN Toronto meeting with Garth Bruen as Chair. The agenda will include cross-ralo dispute resolution and capacity building. Issues discussed below.
- NARALO Monthly Call: This call occurred as scheduled on 10 September 2012 with a focus on the Toronto agenda: NARALO Monthly call 2012.09.10. Note that NARALO Secretary Darlene Thompson was on scheduled leave during this period.
- ALS Recruitment
Much of our focus at the Toronto meeting will concern strategies for increasing ALS membership and retaining current members. Among our topics and actions will be: 1. Improving communications, 2. A discussion of what type of entities to recruit, 3. refining the application process, 4. Creating a probationary membership for applicants, 5. Mending fences and resolving conflicts, 6. Expanding and streamlining our web presence. - ALS Tracking updates
NARALO Chair Garth Bruen reviewed the current ALS list and found that the Emerging Futures Network ALS was not listed and asked staff to update. Other contacts are also being reviewed for details, accuracy and consistency. - Process enhancement
NARALO is developing an agenda to improve communications with its membership and to simplify the ALS application process. More details during the Toronto meeting. Compliance Agenda
NARALO has been engaging in a comprehensive review of the Compliance functions. More details during the Toronto meeting.New gTLD working group: NARALO Chair Garth Bruen has been participating in this working group.
- NOMCOM: Glenn McKnight is continuing his participation in this group.
Next NARALO Monthly Call: NARALO Chair Garth Bruen indicated this call will occur as scheduled on October 8.
