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.
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.
Currently, the TTF chairs are evaluating alternative times for TTF calls to facilitate attendence of TTF members from APRALO to TTF activities.
Planned sessions in the new year include updates on the Captioning and Ebook projects.
October 2015
We held a face to face early morning meeting in Dublin which was well attended. A detailed report (https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/56142121/At-Large-TTF-presentation-ICANN54-Dublin-2015.pdf) provided with Dev Anand Teelucksingh participated remotely. In attendance were two ICANN staff persons including the new staffer Paul Hoffman who is requesting our cooperation in researching online Conferencing tools instead of Adobe Connect. Possible dates January or February for Paul;s participation.
ICANN beta tested their mobile app at the ICANN Dublin and feedback given by TTF members on the TTF mailing list.
September 2015
The At-Large Technology Taskforce - LACRALO Mailing list issues - 2015-08-25 call with Josh Jenkins went well with agreement that there doesn't need to make significant changes to how the project is being developed. The goal was to try to complete testing and to have a presentation/conference call with LACRALO to discuss the changeover before September or before the Dublin meeting.
The At-Large Technology Taskforce 2015-09-21 was a 90 minute call and was a very informative session. First, Gianina Pensky and Kevon Swift from LACNIC gave a detailed look at how LACNIC handles its Policy Development Process (http://www.lacnic.net/en/web/lacnic/proceso-de-desarrollo-de-politicas and its method of managing the Policies for public comment (https://politicas.lacnic.net/politicas/list). This session with LACNIC was to assist the work of the TTF for ATLAS II Recommendation 26 re: ICANN implementing a Policy Management Process System.
Also, Josh Baulch from ICANN Staff gave a detailed presentation of the ICANN Meetings mobile app for F2F meetings. Another beta will be trialed at the ICANN meeting in Dublin this year.
The Captioning Project endorsed by the Working Group and one of the ATLAS ll recommendations has produced a promotional mailcard asking ALAC for volunteers and pilot locations since we are only doing three separate tests. A survey with staff has also been produced to measure community opinions of the project . Contact Judith Hellerstein for more details
Front page of the mailcard ( White background)
Page Two
We have produced a Travel Tips newsletter with content by Glenn McKnight and Judith Hellerstein . It was translated into Spanish by Eduardo Diaz and we did try to get a volunteer for the translation into French. Copies of the newsletter will be distributed in the AT LARGE folders
There will be one more TTF call before the TTF meeting in Dublin
Download Word version
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August 2015
Held At-Large Technology Taskforce 2015-08-24 where Steve Allison updated the TTF on the outcomes from the Kavi Trial with the GNSO. Given the less than positive outcomes from the trial with GNSO, the TTF will not extensively trial Kavi but continue to investigate ATLAS II Rec 26 re: policy management policy system. Updates were presented from Judith Hellerstein on the captioning project and from Glenn McKnight on the ebook projects respectively. There was an update on the discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues and there will a special At-Large Technology Taskforce - LACRALO Mailing list issues - 2015-08-25 to discuss this with Josh Jenkins.
July 2015
Held a Technology Taskforce meeting 2015-07-20 where Steve Allison presented information about Kavi Workspace which the TTF is evaluating as per Rec 26 and 31 as per Post ATLAS II Implementation - Technology Taskforce. The meeting also looked at a group calendaring solution that could help the ALAC Subcommittee on Outreach and Engagement to track Outreach events in the 5 regions in coordination with Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) and the Nominating Committee
June 2015
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.
The session was well attended by various ICANN staff to give information and answer questions. Outcomes from the session include issuing a call for persons from other AC/SOs after the
chair and co-chairs draft the messaging for the call ; adding a person from EURALO to the TTF
Also, the slides and discussion received attention from two persons in the GAC who have asked to join the TTF.
Futhermore, met with LACNIC representatives at the ICANN meeting who were receptive to share information on their policy development process and associated tools) they use, with potential to contact the NRO which could ask all the RIRs for such information.
May 2015
The Technology Taskforce meeting 2015-05-18 discussed Post ATLAS II Implementation - Technology Taskforce, Update on discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues where a new approach to the issue was discussed and demoed the Skype Translator Preview which does machine translation of chat messages and voice interpretation of voice conversations with another Skype user.
March-April 2015
Technology Taskforce meeting 2015-03-16 meeting with Chris Gift to discuss Post ATLAS II Implementation - Technology Taskforce.
Technology Taskforce meeting 2015-03-30 meeting with Cory Schulz to discuss ICANN Remote Hubs.
February 2015
Had meeting at ICANN Singapore F2F meeting. PDF of Slides and recording can be found http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-ttf
January 2015
Technology Taskforce meeting 2015-01-26 looked at captioning tools as per Recommendation 11 for Post ATLAS II Implementation - Technology Taskforce
There will be a TTF meeting for the ICANN Singapore meeting on Thursday February 12 2015. See https://community.icann.org/x/OSjxAg for the agenda
Working on a Best tools for ICANN F2F meetings page to highlight apps/software useful for visitors to the ICANN F2F meeting at Singapore
October-November 2014
At-Large Technology Taskforce 2014-11-10. On this call, Glenn McKnight and Judith Hellerstein agreed to be co-chairs of the TTF
Amongst the Work items being looked at:
- ATLASII Recommendation 26 regarding the Policy Management Process System. A first call was done Technology Taskforce meeting discussing Recommendation 26 2014-11-14
- Work on the Post ATLAS II recommendations for the TTF
- Reviewing Social Media Tools suitable for team use
- Suggestions for Web Conferencing tools/solutions - Jitsi Meet and Anymeeting to be reviewed
- Ideas for improving the organisation of At-Large content
- Call for other topics/issues that the TTF should be working on
September 2014
On Joint Accessibility WG/ Technology Taskforce meeting 2014-09-08 call, we evaluated the Caption First service which allows for live transcription (via human transcribers) to appear in both the Adobe Connect session as well as a separate URL. An option from the Caption First service is the ability to switch the text from the live transcript to an machine translated version (powered by Google Translate).
August 2014
On the At-Large Technology Taskforce 2014-08-11 call, we reviewed Hall, another Group Chat service
July 2014
On the At-Large Technology Taskforce 2014-07-28 call, we reviewed Hipchat, another Group Chat service, and reviewed an update on the At-Large Social Media Strategy and how the tools used in #ATLAS2 worked
June 2014
Held conference call on At-Large Technology Taskforce 2014-06-09 - looked at the Using Adobe Connect with Linux page and looked at Group chat applications - Slack was used successfully by the At-Large Social Media Working Group to coordinate updates from persons attending concurrent sessions during #ATLAS2 and the London meeting.
May 2014
Held further meetings to help create At-Large Social Media Working Group.
Testing of LACRALO translation mailing lists has begun. Only one more issue to be resolved, according to ICANN IT.
Review of troubleshooting issues related to Linux users connecting to Adobe Connect
April 2014
Presented the draft At-Large Social Media Strategy at At-Large Social Media Strategy Workspace. After approved it was forwarded to the At-Large Capacity Building Working Group , ALAC Subcommittee on Outreach and Engagement and RALO Secretariats
March 2014 - ICANN 49 Singapore Reporting
Held 7 meetings since ICANN 48 Buenos Aires meeting
- reviewed two conferencing solutions - Cisco Webex and Uberconference
- had call with ICANN IT staff to discuss status on Summary of LACRALO translation email list issues ; collaborating on testing new plugins with Adobe Connect ; wiki translate plugins
looking at suitable Adobe Connect plugins
- The TTF tested the direct dialout plugin installed in the TTF AC room and whilst persons from North America and Europe (specifically Canada, France) were able to use the plugin to have the AC room dial them, I (living in Trinidad and Tobago with a +1-868-6XX-XXXX number) was unable to have the AC room dial to me, giving me an error has occurred. No amount of permutations of the phone number (using "+1-868-6.." , "18686...") seemed to work.
- However, in thinking about this feature, there are some disadvantages- this wouldn't work for persons requesting dialouts to a hotel or office with a PBX where a receptionist operator answers.- this plugin uses a different bridge from Adigo, how would recording (incorporating audio from the AC room, Adigo and this phone bridge) be done?- this wouldn't be helpful for At-Large calls with interpretation since the person being dialled can't join a Adigo channelHowever the TTF on its calls have identified two plugins for Adobe Connect that could be of use for At-Large and we would like for these plugins to be installed for our testing after the Singapore meeting1) Stage Lights - Stage Lights is a timer that helps keep presenters on time. http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect/feature-details/stage-lights.html2) SurveyMaker for Adobe Connect - Surveys and polls with eleven question types, built-in reporting, CSV downloads and much more. A demo is available
In response to the ALS Skype video recordings. a new page was created to provide AT LARGE Structures some guidance to do a VIDEO CONFERENCE well. The link is 10 Ways to Improve Your Video/Skype Conference Call. The major concerns was the poor sound quality, low resolution video, poor postioning of the video camera, shabby backgrounds for the video and more.
worked on the first prototype template for At-Large Working Group Pages developed : TEST - Template for At-Large WG pages
- Troubleshooting connecting to Adobe Connect rooms using Linux - Gordon Chillcott and Bill Thanis from the TTF are regular Linux users and would be better able to talk the talk re: desktop Linux in getting the necessary information to IT staff for you and to document the problems and collaborate with you on solutions/workarounds.
- wiki translate plugins - feedback given re: the Bing translate plugin works slightly better on iOS whereas the Google Translate plugin failed to work at all. Feedback on how the wiki translate plugins will work on Android OS will be done soon. Also, feedback on the quality of the machine translation will be sought from At-Large and to be done after the Singapore meeting.
February 2014
Report of Cisco Webex conferencing solution. Planning to evaluate Uberconference https://www.uberconference.com/ on Monday 3 March 2014
Ideas for improving the organisation of At-Large content page was updated to give some input based on the work being done on At-Large Metrics which is using a spreadsheet to pull information from the ALAC meetings pages on the wiki.
Input provided on the mobile effective of the wiki translate plugins from Bing and Google
In response to the ALS Skype video recordings. a new page was created to provide AT LARGE Structures some guidance to do a VIDEO CONFERENCE well. The link is 10 Ways to Improve Your Video/Skype Conference Call. The major concerns was the poor sound quality, low resolution video, poor postioning of the video camera, shabby backgrounds for the video and more.
January 2014
Conference call with ICANN IT staff on At-Large Technology Taskforce 2014 -01-07 to discuss Adobe Connect issues, and setting up a separate Confluence wiki installation, and translation tools for the wiki and mailing list.
Did a webconferencing test of Cisco Webex on At-Large Technology Taskforce 2014-01-20 - Webex testing
November-December 2013
TTF chair met with ICANN IT staff during the Buenos Aires F2F meeting to discuss issues related to Adobe Connect (Adobe Connect not working in Linux) and setting up a separate Confluence wiki installation to test Ideas for improving the organisation of At-Large content
gave report during the ALAC: Policy Discussion - Part I - http://buenosaires48.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-alac-policy-i (57 mins in the recording)
October 2013
Criterion for web conferencing solutions updated. Evaluated infinitemeeting conferencing solution.
deas for improving the organisation of At-Large content page and the Content created by At-Large Working Groups page updated to include issues and possible recommendations for comment.
September 2013
Criterion for web conferencing solutions reviewed and updated. Evaluated GoMeetNow and MeetingBurner conferencing solutions
Documenting how At-Large can use the calendar page updated : Calendar
An objective for TTF would be to update the templates to simplify and enhance the presentation of announcements posted on the ALAC_announce mailing list. Several Templates for content posted on ALAC_announce have been identified
Regarding the TTF & staff to create a central repository of video, pictures captured by At-Large members that be used by curation/editing WG to reshare/re-use by At-Large.Suggestions of content, suggestions of using Box.com for this although copy.com appears to be a better solution. Using copy.com is undergoing testing.
Ideas for improving the organisation of At-Large content page and the Content created by At-Large Working Groups page updated for comment.
August 2013
Having weekly meetings this month.
First meeting was on August 5 2013 At-Large Technology Taskforce 2013-08-05 to review the criterion for web conferencing solutions and schedule trials of BlueJeans and ReadyTalk web conferencing solutions for August 12 and 26 respectively. Also discussed was the At-Large Social Media Strategy and the At-Large Social Media Posts space.
August 12, 2013 - evaluation of BlueJeans web conferencing solution
At-Large Technology Taskforce 2013-08-19 - the criterion for web conferencing solutions was again discussed and the update to the At-Large Social Media Strategy with respect to a curation WG to submit additional content and/or more developing more accessible templates of content from the ALAC announce mailing list for the At-Large Social Media Posts space.
August 26 2013 - evaluation of ReadyTalk conferencing solution
July 2013
At the ICANN Durban meeting on Sunday , gave an presentation of the LUCID webconferencing platform.
June 2013 by Dev Anand Teelucksingh
held two meetings using LUCID instead of the Adobe Connect. Members Feedback was generally positive on the use of LUCID
Ideas for improving the organisation of At-Large content project is ongoing
One Pager about Adobe Connect first version has been posted
Accessibility of tools used by At-Large - no progress on this.
June 2013 by Gordon Chillcott
This meeting was postponed a week due to scheduling conflicts and was held on June 24, 2013.
Most of the meeting discussed Ideas for Improving the Organisation of the At Large content wiki pages. A draft document, describing now content is currently organized and noting some of the issues, was presented to focus discussion. Task Force members will review the document and provide comments.
The Task Force has been attempting to develop a very short (“one pager”) instruction sheet on the use of Adobe Connect for meetings. Some use procedures, however, have proven to be complex enough to make short descriptions difficult. Work continues on this.
There was some discussion of the feasibility of developing mobile applications for ICANN use – one to disseminate information, the other for collaboration. Two questions arose:
- the question of cost of development of these applications – and whether they already exist; and,
- the real penetration of “smart” phones in developing countries.
The Task Force is considering a meeting before Durban, on July 8, 2013. A doodle poll will determine whether that meeting will be held.
May 2013
had TTF meeting on At-Large Technology Taskforce 2013-05-20
Project to re-organise how content is saved on the At-Large wiki and how such content is presented to the viewer for
- At-Large WG -review how content is saved for At-Large WGs ; develop wiki template for At-Large WG pages
- RALOs - review how content is saved for RALOs ; develop wiki template for RALO pages
- ALAC - review how content is saved for ALAC ; develop wiki template for ALAC pages
See Ideas for improving the organisation of content on At-Large wiki page
ACTIVITY REPORT FOR MAY, 2013
There were two meetings of the Task Force this month – one was the regularly-scheduled meeting and the other was a “special” meeting intended to be a test of a new meeting product.
Regularly Scheduled Meeting – May 20, 20 13
Discussions:
- issue of Accessibility for At-Large's web pages
- will be a continuing topic of discussion
- outreach to challenged communities is encouraged
- some discussion of labelling schemes for document indexing
Main Topic
The Task Force has been asked (by Chris Gift) to assess the LUCID meeting tool (www.lucidmeetings.com).
After some discussion, a decision to hold a LUCID-based trial meeting.
SPECIAL Meeting – May 30, 2013
This meeting was held using the LUCID meeting tool
The first part of the meeting was an exploration of the currently-available features and their use. Both the meeting leaders and the participants took part in trials of the product.
The trial was largely successful. We were informed by Staff that not all features are available yet, but are coming. Among these are:
- private chats
- enabled audio VOIP
- Confluence support (exporting information to Confluence, in particular)
- framework modification
Consensus – The Task Force will continue to hold its regular meetings using this tool for the time being and follow the progress of the updates.
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.
