Dear Colleagues, This is a brief follow-up after today's meeting. Satish and Oksana are leading the compilation on the Survey and we are all invited to comment on the Survey Draft Questions that they have initiated. Today we created sub-group structures to allow us to focus on our tasks. To this end, we would like to invite you to please select one (1) group only if you have not given your preferred group. There will be time for cross pollination of ideas so we all get a chance to put our fingerprints on each Group's completed tasks. We would like to encourage everyone to fully utilise their areas of skill sets/competence/expertise such as public relations/journalism/IT/engineering/teaching etc to ensure that we can have a rich breadth of input. Below, you will find the links (URL) to the space for each sub-group. Survey https://community.icann.org/x/uiF-Ag Content https://community.icann.org/x/qSF-Ag Face to Face https://community.icann.org/x/tiF-Ag Online https://community.icann.org/x/siF-Ag Social Media https://community.icann.org/x/riF-Ag We encourage you to be innovative and utilise the wiki and the email list for your discussions. I would like to ask the Staff to please post the Action Items in the Wiki. The most pressing deadline is to finalise the Survey by next week Friday. *General Guidelines* For instance when using the Mailing list to discuss your group's work please put your group in paratheses, for example. If I am in the "Content" Team and I wish to initiate a thread on "Content" then in the subject line of the email I will put [Content]. Groups have two weeks to complete their tasks and we encourage you to initiate dialogue, create an energetic environment and empower your colleagues to participate. Remember that you all have an equal voice so we would like you to have a sense of ownership to the group that you have selected. Feel free to be creative, think outside the box. Remember, you/we are doing this for all the ALSes and our At Large community to empower them equally. So with that, feel energised. We are looking forward to seeing heavy traffic in the email lists and trust that you can synthesise the same and add to the wiki.
From time to time, the Steering Committee will initiate dialogue or encourage discussion in a set of area that we feel needs to be addressed. Please feel free to do the same as well if you see that discussions are stagnant etc. The Tasks are to be completed and presented in a word document within 2 weeks from today.
*Survey [To Be Finalised By Friday Next Week]* The initial draft that Oksana and Satish have prepared is on the Wiki so please add your comment. Also look within your groups and figure out what are at least 2 or three questions that you would like to know from members of the At Large community. You can forward this to the Survey Team at least by Monday next week because on Tuesday, the editing of the Survey will start where we will start finalising the Survey. To access the current list of questions, please see the link provided for in the table above. In the event that you think questions are redundant, please do so. Thank you to all those that have given your names of your preferred groups. The list below shows those that have yet to express a preference for which Group you would like to join and the names are as follows: 1. Tijani Ben- Jemaa 2. Pastor Peters Omoragbhon 3. Chaitanya Dhareshwar 4. Karaitiana Taiuru 5. Satish Babu 6. Yashar Hajiyev 7. Lisa Williams-Lahari 8. Elisa Kohlhase 9. Nimrol Agarwal 10. Sainivalati Nabogikolo 11. Adela Danciu 12. Sandra Hoferichter 13. Mathias Pfeifer 14. Jose Arce 15. Erik Hiesca 16. Emani Fakaotimanalava-Lui We would like you to please select which Groups you would like to join by this week. On Friday, we will be closing the space for volunteers involvement and if no names come forward by then, we will assume that you are disinterested in the operations of the Working Group. If for some you this is the first time to the Wiki, please feel free to send Staff or Dev Anand Teelucksingh" <devtee@gmail.com> who is a Member of the Steering Committee and he can guide you. If this is your first time to contribute to an At large project, we would like to say that we are excited to share in your first experience and please feel free to send us emails (staff) to inquire. Feel free to ask if things are not clear and please keep the communication lines open. Thank you. Warm Regards, -- Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro aka Sala P.O. Box 17862 Suva Fiji Twitter: @SalanietaT Skype:Salanieta.Tamanikaiwaimaro Tel: +679 3544828 Fiji Cell: +679 998 2851 Blog: salanieta.blogspot.com