NARALO ALS Outreach and Recruitment Efforts
Brief
This is a project of the NARALO Outreach and Recruitment Subcommittee. This page is a tracking workspace for our efforts to locate, contact, recruit, on-board and welcome potential ALSes in our region. This project is open to all NARALO members. Our overall goal is to find groups who are currently under-represented either geographically or in terms of discipline. While North America was first in Internet development, it is last in community input. Among the groups missing from our ranks are the disabled, journalists, consumer groups, and aboriginal communities. Beyond the diverse communities already in existence, we need further representation from all U.S. and Canadian territories as well as more participation from our Spanish and French speaking communities. If the Internet is for everyone, the policy discussion is for everyone.
2. Tools
2.1. Here is a link to the NARALO slideshow
2.2. Draft Letter for Recruitment
2.3 List of Outreach Events by calendar
2.4. Link to events
http://www.socialbrite.org/2012/01/02/calendar-of-2012-nonprofit-social-change-conferences/
3. Suggestion List Queue
| Contact | Organization | Phone | Website | Suggested By | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blind Canadians | 1-800-561-4774. | no email | http://www.blindcanadians.ca/ | GM | |
| Lindsey Pinto | Open Media Canada | 1-604-633-2744. | contact@openmedia.ca | GM | |
| Citizen Lab | (416) 946-8903 | info@citizenlab.org | http://www.citizenlab.org | GM | |
| Human Rights Internet | 1-613) 789-7407 | info@hri.ca | http://www.hri.ca | GM | |
| Consumer Council of Canada | 416.483.2696 | http://www.consumerscouncil.com/ | GM | ||
PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE / LE CENTRE POUR LA DÉFENSE DE L’INTÉRÊT PUBLIC | (613) 562-4002 | piac@piac.ca | http://www.piac.ca | GM | |
| Canadian Association of the Deaf | (613) 565-2882 | info@cad.ca | http://www.cad.ca/ | GM | |
| Digital Copyright Canada/Flora Community Consulting | http://www.digital-copyright.ca/ | GM | |||
| Michael Geist, ???? | http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ | GM | |||
| Boston-area User Group | http://bugc.org/bostonusergroups.org | GB | |||
| Boston Linux & Unix User Group | http://blu.org | GB | |||
| American Foundation for the Blind | http://afb.org | GB | |||
| Web Accessibility in Mind | http://webaim.org | GB | |||
| New England Mid-Range Users Group | http://nemug.com | GB | |||
| OpenNet Initiative | http://opennet.net | GB | |||
| HacksHackers Boston | http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com | GB | |||
| Online News Association | http://journalists.org | GB | |||
| Electronic Frontier Foundation
| http://eff.org | GB |
4. Contacted Groups
| Group Name | Website | Letter | Phone Call | Meeting | By | Response | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Indian College Fund | collegefund.org | 1/14/2014 | GB | ||||
| Tor Project | torproject.org | 1/6/2014 | GB | ||||
| Free Software Foundation, Inc. | fsf.org | 1/14/2014 | GB | ||||
| Visually Impaired and Blind User Group | vibug.org | 1/14/2014 | GB | ||||
| Public Insight Network(APM) | publicinsightnetwork.org | 1/14/2014 | GB | ||||
| Hispanic Educational Technology Services (HETS) | hets.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10/21/2013 | ED | Applied/Accepted |
| Capital Area Globetrotters | FB Page | Direct | GM | Applied/Accepted | |||
Association of Information Technology Professionals | aitp.org | 1/14/2014 | GB | ||||
| National Network to End Domestic Violence | nnedv.org | 1/15/2014 | GB |
5 Geographic Tracking
| Canadian Provinces | Have | New Contacted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Québec | Y | ||
| Ontario | Y | ||
| British Columbia | Y | ||
| Alberta | Y | ||
| Nova Scotia | Y | ||
| Manitoba | |||
| Saskatchewan | |||
| New Brunswick | |||
| Prince Edward Island | |||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||
| Canadian Territories | |||
| Yukon | |||
| Nunavut | Y | ||
| Northwest Territories | |||
| U.S States | |||
| Alabama | |||
| Alaska | |||
| Arizona | |||
| Arkansas | |||
| California | Y | ||
| Colorado | Y | Y | |
| Connecticut | |||
| Delaware | |||
| Florida | Y | ||
| Georgia | |||
| Hawaii | Y | ||
| Idaho | |||
| Illinois | |||
| Indiana | |||
| Iowa | |||
| Kansas | |||
| Kentucky | |||
| Louisiana | |||
| Maine | |||
| Maryland | |||
| Massachusetts | Y | Y | |
| Michigan | |||
| Minnesota | Y | ||
| Mississippi | |||
| Missouri | |||
| Montana | |||
| Nebraska | |||
| Nevada | |||
| New Hampshire | |||
| New Jersey | |||
| New Mexico | |||
| New York | Y | ||
| North Carolina | |||
| North Dakota | |||
| Ohio | |||
| Oklahoma | |||
| Oregon | |||
| Pennsylvania | |||
| Rhode Island | |||
| South Carolina | |||
| South Dakota | |||
| Tennessee | |||
| Texas | |||
| Utah | |||
| Vermont | |||
| Virginia | |||
| Washington | |||
| District of Columbia | Y | ||
| West Virginia | |||
| Wisconsin | |||
| Wyoming |
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| U.S. Commonwealths | |||
| Guam | |||
| Mariana Islands | |||
| Puerto Rico | Y | Y | |
| Virgin Islands | |||
| U.S. Territories | |||
| American Samoa | |||
| Palmyra Atoll | |||
| District of Columbia | |||
| Palau | |||
| Micronesia |
