Thank you Jean, unfortunately this corporate knowledge  was not passed on or incorporated into standard procedures by the time I became involved in ALAC as an APRALO rep... And I note here the recent message posted by my fellow AP-RALO representative to ALAC  Izumi, (thank you Izumi for your post and background information, as well as your observations on the time limitations of volunteers in this space)...

 

The current Chair wishes to have a single point of presence from which easily navigable feeds into outcome driven policy development processes;  And at this point in time, particularly as the new  ALAC is spending considerable time and energy into ensuring that we develop highly effective and useful participative and collaborative communication tools with the redevelopment of the At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org

and the parallel review and restructure of our SocialText working Wiki, this means a focus on the Official site.

 

Regarding this review activity there are some really exciting possibilities-  Veronica Cretu (who shared with me last week and excellent training session on the Wiki with Yan Sun),  from that online guided workshop,  they are now in discussion about implementing and developing for our At-Large use in this space  tools and concepts that Veronica has  successfully used in her work in DiploFoundation such as a the use of  Hypertext annotations and links while working in certain working groups per certain topic/issue/document.  Also we discovered that there is so much more capability to the SocialText tools we already have available in this space than we (or at least Me) were aware of...

 

So at this stage I wish to see where these review and rebuild activities take us in the next few weeks... Here we should also particularly note the excellent and extensive work already done by Robert Guerra on the Membership  and online ALS applications processing system, which integrates with the Official Web site rebuild, that we looked at for the first time in our LA meeting...  And which will make the due diligence work of the RALO’s in this process so much easier and effective.

 

So at this stage I will not be taking you up on your kind offer of ALAC Chair posting privileges... Or for those of the RALOs (unless they independently decide to do so) as I fear further duplication of work spaces at this stage will only serve to confuse those looking for authoritative content source  AND most importantly, add additional task time and effort into the already busy work load of the volunteers in the RALO’s and ALS’s as well as compete with  our desire to see them effectively and better use the tools we have and are modifying to better meet outcome driven needs, as discussed earlier in this missive...

 

Regarding the other matters you raise,  I thank you for this clarification, and will ensure that this is an item on our next ALAC Agenda for our December 11th meeting, and that you get a reply on those issues, post haste after the conclusion of that meeting.

 

Kindest regards,

 

Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO)

ALAC Chair 2007-2008 term

 

 

From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Jean Armour Polly
Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2007 12:29 AM
To: Kieren McCarthy
Cc: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
Subject: Re: [At-Large] ALAC participation

 

The last posting occurred Dec 2006 as I left ALAC when my term expired through my Nomcom appointment.

When I left, I created several guides for the next person I assumed would step up to be webmom or dad of the site. I offered transitional help. I offered passwords to the chair.

At this time I offer them again.

The ALAC chair can have author privileges for posting to this independent site at any time. The chair can authorize the webmaster to give author privileges to anyone at any time. The chair can authorize anyone to be the "publisher" of all submitted content. Every ALS can have their own page, with author privileges. Every RALO has their own page. The site is in Joomla and it is easy to post an article to it. It just takes a commitment of time to be the "publisher" of submitted content.

The chair should contact Larry Polly <larry@pollywood.org> who is under contract from ICANN to provide software updates/technical maintenance to this site. He does not do content, which was my job.

After I got off ALAC, there was a movement to hire me to continue to provide content, with a small stipend, since I would no longer get the ALAC perk of the travel. However, I haven't heard anything about that for months.

Thanks for the opportunity to clarify things.

Jean Polly