Personally, I am not a big fan of conference call, in part English phone conversation is very energy consuming to concentrate, even for me who is relatively OK with working with English. It is VERY tiring after 20 minutes or 30. BUT, if some folks want, I will not object at all, provided taking othe excellent suggestions, too. 1) I like brief document - 1 or 2 pager, with links etc to details. posted on web with RSS feed. 2) tanscriptions, and links to audio archive AND, instead of making a standing attempt, it may be wise to test first for a few times, evaluate and improve the implementation step by step. This way, we can be pragmatic to see the effect and imrpove it to serve the audience, without making too much hypotherical argument before hand. I menn let's test it and see how it goes. izumi 2007/12/13, Jacqueline A. Morris <jam@jacquelinemorris.com>:
HI Nick
Very cool.
Can we have transcripts as well as recordings of the sessions for those who miss it (for any reason) posted? (As well as an archive for new ppl) Could be a jump start to the capacity building document repository!
JAM
From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 04:51 To: At-Large Worldwide Cc: policy@icann.org Subject: [At-Large] Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policy for the At-Large Community
Dear ALAC and Secretariat members:
Following up on an offer made by the Staff during the 1 November 2007 ALAC meeting in Los Angeles, and followup conversations with Cheryl, may I suggest that the staff of ICANN provide two briefings on policy issues at a standing time and date twice per month - one convenient to the eastern hemisphere, and the other convenient to the western hemisphere, approximately every two weeks.
We would then facilitate callers to dial in to the briefing, or if they do not live in a country with a freephone number, the service could dial out to them. The calls would be recorded, so that those who could not participate 'live' would be able to listen to the recordings later. Setting a standing date and time may make it easier for the volunteer community to schedule time to participate sufficiently in advance to ensure good Q&A sessions so that recordings are of maximum use to other parties - even other ICANN communities.
Might I suggest that with respect to the subjects of the call, these could be decided by a procedure where the ALAC Executive Committee proposes a list of subjects for the next four calls (two months' worth) to the public ALAC list on a no-objections basis after their next meeting (20th December). These calls would begin in the new year and proposing the subjects in good time like this would allow the Policy staff to schedule the right people to do the briefings with sufficient warning.
I hope that this will meet with your favour. With the various working groups really getting underway, it seems that this may help to raise understanding of the issues and their complexity so that the At-Large community can provide the best advice possible on the subjects which concern you.
I will separately liaise with my colleagues in the Policy department to see if some time / date combinations are most suitable to ensure over the course of time the best access to the widest number of potential briefers :)
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