Evan we have indeed under utalised the Wiki tool we have had and we are not discounting the work or effort that has gone into it, we are however making an ALAC wide commitment to better use the tool and this means some redesign, some training if required, and a unified approach to a redesign, which also runs parallel to the ALAC web redesign to take into account the new Membership and online applications for ALS's processes etc., The Wiki is a related part of this review and renew, but we certainly do expect it to be a main place for future WG activities... My response was to Wendy who was enquiring why there was suddenly new 'sectored into activity' invitations going out... That process was initiated at the date time stamp I stated, and it is after that point in time that the invitations to join these linked sub spaces of the Wiki will be going out... Sorry if my statement confused any one... But the intention is indeed to both minimise confusion *and* maximise ease of use, and best possible timely outcomes for the WG's and ALAC activities. CLO -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2007 9:49 AM To: 'At-Large' Subject: Re: [At-Large] I'm inviting you into the "At-Large GNSO Liaison" workspace Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
As this process only started at 1340 UTC 30th of November
No, this process started in December 2002. ALAC has had far more time than it needed to put in place a concise yet flexible set of communications channels, which is critical considering its intended objectives. As the product of this five years of skilled minds, hard work and lots of money spent we have a hodgepodge of attempts to alternately diversify and consolidate. Let's see, at just a cursory glance of websites, we presently have http://www.icann.org/committees/alac/ http://icannalac.org (which still shows a NEWSFLASH! dated Dec 2006) http://alac.icann.org/ https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi http://icannwiki.org/ALAC (And that's not even counting the fact that when an ad-hoc At-Large group started work on the Summit we needed to create a Google Group because early request for communications channels were either refused or unavailable.) Will the real ICANN website please stand up? What is most astounding is that ALAC (or, rather, the At-Large infrastructure) is supposed to be simplifying the public's path to understand ICANN. Isn't it reasonable to have expected that, after five years of prep, this mess would have been solved by now? I can only hope that the new initiatives will strive to clean up the above mess with some level of permanence. - Evan _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org