Transcription of December ALAC Teleconference posted
Dear All: For those who wish to read it, the transcription of the December ALAC teleconference is now posted. There is also an MP3 of the meeting available for you if you prefer to listen to audio. These can be accessed at: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?11_december_2007 Note that we will shortly be making audio recordings available via RealNetworks streaming, for those who do not wish to download large MP3s, or who have bandwidth challenges which makes this difficult. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
On 2008-01-09 12:46:26 +0100, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
For those who wish to read it, the transcription of the December ALAC teleconference is now posted.
Any chance to post things like that in an open format, as opposed to MS Word? Thanks, -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
At present no. Once the new staff are hired and trained we could incorporate this suggestion. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart On 9 Jan 2008, at 12:59, Thomas Roessler wrote:
On 2008-01-09 12:46:26 +0100, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
For those who wish to read it, the transcription of the December ALAC teleconference is now posted.
Any chance to post things like that in an open format, as opposed to MS Word?
Thanks, -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
Did you just say that you need additional staff to export a Word document to HTML and then run tidy over it? Excuse me? -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> On 2008-01-09 13:50:46 +0100, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
From: Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart@icann.org> To: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> Cc: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:50:46 +0100 Subject: Re: [At-Large] Transcription of December ALAC Teleconference posted X-Spam-Level: X-Greylist: delayed 1449 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at s15252719; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:14:58 UTC X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.1.6
At present no. Once the new staff are hired and trained we could incorporate this suggestion. -- Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
On 9 Jan 2008, at 12:59, Thomas Roessler wrote:
On 2008-01-09 12:46:26 +0100, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
For those who wish to read it, the transcription of the December ALAC teleconference is now posted.
Any chance to post things like that in an open format, as opposed to MS Word?
Thanks, -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
May I refer you to the answer I made to your original question. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart On 9 Jan 2008, at 14:15, Thomas Roessler wrote:
Did you just say that you need additional staff to export a Word document to HTML and then run tidy over it?
Excuse me?
-- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
On 2008-01-09 13:50:46 +0100, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
From: Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart@icann.org> To: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> Cc: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:50:46 +0100 Subject: Re: [At-Large] Transcription of December ALAC Teleconference posted X-Spam-Level: X-Greylist: delayed 1449 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at s15252719; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:14:58 UTC X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.1.6
At present no. Once the new staff are hired and trained we could incorporate this suggestion. -- Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
On 9 Jan 2008, at 12:59, Thomas Roessler wrote:
On 2008-01-09 12:46:26 +0100, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
For those who wish to read it, the transcription of the December ALAC teleconference is now posted.
Any chance to post things like that in an open format, as opposed to MS Word?
Thanks, -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
Nick, you ask for more staff but surely it must be for more complicated and time consuming things. With all due respect it just looks silly to ask for more staff and training to do this simple task. It literally takes one more second to "print" a Word file to pdf. (Is that what you are looking for, Thomas?) Alternatively Word can take one more half second and Save As Text, which ought to be generic enough for anyone. I know seconds add up but anyone with enough time to do a Word transcription surely has one more second per document. If this is not the case then I guess I haven't heard enough about how overloaded the at large staff is? Sorry, it just seems like an odd response. JP At 1:50 PM +0100 1/9/08, Nick Ashton-Hart recently said:
At present no. Once the new staff are hired and trained we could incorporate this suggestion. -- Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
On 9 Jan 2008, at 12:59, Thomas Roessler wrote:
On 2008-01-09 12:46:26 +0100, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
For those who wish to read it, the transcription of the December ALAC teleconference is now posted.
Any chance to post things like that in an open format, as opposed to MS Word?
Thanks, -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
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Jean Armour Polly wrote:
It literally takes one more second to "print" a Word file to pdf. (Is that what you are looking for, Thomas?) PDFs are good (and reasonably standardized) for documents that are not meant to be re-edited (such as meeting minutes). Alternatively if the desire is for a format that could also be re-edited, OpenDocument (the native format of OpenOffice and available for Word as a plugin) is an ISO standard that is increasing in international adoption. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/04/Open-Document-Format-gained-moment...
HTML is also OK; while it lacks lacks many of the advanced presentation features of MS Office and OpenDocument, we _are_ after all talking about simple things like meeting minutes. On the other hand, if there is to be a wider policy about using an open format it should be something more flexible than HTML. Without claiming to speak for anyone else, Nick, I think there is increasing sensitivity in the choice of file formats that are closed and whose use is subject to the whim of a single vendor. This threat is not just theoretical; here's just the latest indication of how that whim is being abused: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti... http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti... (I wonder why the IP types aren't squaking even louder about this. If being denied access to your own files isn't a breach of creators' rights, what is?) Having said all that, I agree that "wait for more staff" appears to be an insufficient reason to reject a suggestion that requires no more than a few more button presses. - Evan
On Jan 9, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
At present no. Once the new staff are hired and trained we could incorporate this suggestion.
From the File menu, choose "Save As" instead of "Save". In the "Format" pick, choose "Rich Text Format" and then save as an .RTF instead of a .DOC. -- Bret
Any chance to post things like that in an open format, as opposed to MS Word?
Here is is in OpenOffice format. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
John: Thanks so much for the conversion. Perhaps someone else could copy & paste the text to the wiki too. having a searchable online version of the meeting minutes , would - i think - also be beneficial. regards Robert On 9-Jan-08, at 8:12 AM, John L wrote:
Any chance to post things like that in an open format, as opposed to MS Word?
Here is is in OpenOffice format.
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Thomas Roessler