Wednesday, 10 February 2016 Teleconference
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 UTC (for the time in various timezones click here)
Meeting Number: AL.FBSC/CC.0216/1
How can I participate in this meeting? English: 1638
¿Cómo se puede participar en la teleconferencia? Spanish Conference ID = 1738
Action Items: EN
Recording: EN, ES
Adobe Connect Chat Transcript: EN
Transcription: EN, ES
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Attendees:
Members:
AFRALO: Tijani Ben Jemaa, Wafa Dahmani
APRALO: Maureen Hilyard
EURALO: Sebastien Bachollet, Olivier Crepin-Leblond
LACRALO: Leon Sanchez
NARALO: Alan Greenberg, Tim Denton
Participants:
AFRALO: Daniel Nanghaka, Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong
APRALO: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Kaili Kan
EURALO:
LACRALO: Dev Anand Teelucksingh
NARALO: Glenn McKnight
Apologies: Judith Hellerstein, Humberto Carrasco, Ali AlMeshal, Wolf Ludwig
Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Yeşim Nazlar
Call management: Yeşim Nazlar
AGENDA
Welcome and Aim of Call - Alan Greenberg, Chair of the FBSC/ALAC (3 minutes)
Roll Call - Staff (2 minutes)
Final Review of the FY17 At-Large preliminary Special Community Requests - Alan Greenberg and Heidi Ullrich (30 minutes)
Next Steps in the FY17 Special Request Process - Heidi Ullrich (5 minutes)
Identification of FBSC Members for the CROPP Review Team- Alan Greenberg (15 minutes)
Next Meeting - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)
1 Comment
Heidi Ullrich
Comments submitted by Judith Hellerstein on 9 February 2016 related to today's call:
HI All,
I am unable to make the call at I have a meeting scheduled during that
time, but wanted to send in my comments and feedback to the list.
According to the guidelines of the type of requests to submit it says:
* Outreach should not be a major focus. Activities to improve
engagement with existing members is encouraged.
* If any request is made on outreach, it should probably go through
the CROPP program and not this special request process.
* Proposals should include ways in which will make the ALAC and/or
the At-Large community more effective and develop the At-Large
community.
I know our RALO worked hard to focus our proposals on these three
issues and did not look at other proposals that were what we considered
outreach. It is for that reason why we did not look at hosting regional
events or focusing on creating a session at the next IGF. Also we need
to take a look at CROPP funding and considering the distances that
APRALO people have to travel to reach a destination maybe some kind of
allowance can be made so that the CROPP days start once you reach the
destination. I think that would help APRALO uses it slots better. Also
they may want to look at combining 2 slots together to make the trips
work better within their CROP Strategy. This is allowable this year.
If we are going to continue recommending proposals that are essentially
outreach in nature than we need to create new criteria so that others
could then follow it. I think we are not taking our current criteria
to heart in the submission of the included proposals. Several of the
proposals submitted are strictly outreach ones. If these are viewed as
needed than ALAC should work with GSE and the new Civil Society
outreach initiative to have these listed and possibly supported. I
also have strong objections to funding projects that do not work on 1)
specifically engaging RALO or ALS members. 2) focus on areas that have
been the specific focus of other groups and that are funded by other
groups. In this vein a national IGF should not be a special budget
request. They can receive funding from the IGF Support Association,
The Internet society, and The RIRs or other groups. Each of these
groups have funded National IGFs. The IGF SA was created specific ally
to help fund national and regional IGFs and makes available funding
from 3,000-5,000 USD each year to these groups. In addition, ISOC also
makes available funding on top of this amount to chapters holding
National and Regional IGFs.
In summary, I think we need to have a broader discussion of the
criteria for what can be submitted as a special request and what should
not. Possibly some of the ideas can be funded through other means. I
look forward to your feedback on my comments.
Best,
Judith
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