Dear Councillors,

As you probably remember, in Kobe we agreed that we need more Council workshops. Unfortunately, we could not make it in Marrakech but we will definitely do that in Montreal. Currently, we have booked three 90 minute blocks on Sunday (starting at 9 am). Two blocks for the workshop and one block for our prep-meeting.

However, booking slots is the easiest part. We need to fill them up with meaningful, useful, and interesting activities. If we can’t think of enough of such kind of activities, we can always go for one block of workshop instead of two (we will have a prep-meeting in any case). If we have interesting ideas, we will need to plan and prepare them to make the most out of our team efforts. To make a long story short, now is the time to propose ideas for our workshop in Montreal!

To kick start the brainstorming:

- How to help new people to get engaged? Here I’d like to point to what I think is a great suggestion. A month ago Eberhard shared an idea on the mailing list “…to find someone who has not been involved in ccNSO activities, preferably under the age of 30 to serve as an observer...” – this (these) person(s) could observe activities on different groups, e.g. IFR, other review teams, our members on CCWGs, and help our members by writing reports to the Council, members, and ccTLD community.

- ccNSO review recommendations. If the Board adopts the recommendations by the meeting in Montreal, we could look into those and discuss how to proceed.

- ccNSO website. What information we need, how to structure it, etc.

- How to (re)shape our interaction with other SOACs?

- any ideas for a hands-on session?

The ball is yours! Please share your ideas!

Kind regards,

]{atrina