Hi all, I support Jeanette’s point for a vote to ensure sufficient support for the chair as well as Vittorio
to ask Nick to set up the voting system, as he did for the vote in May. But we should avoid to loose too much time with procedure discussions again. Therefore I agree with whatever solution which is easy to handle and may find consensus on the list!
I would like to know more about the expectations in respect of the role of the chair and the board. Do they have, as Patrick suggested, a
coordinative function at this stage. or an initializing role what, Patrick again, would require more investment in time and energy from the board members?
Regarding a working programme, I prefer the approach suggested by Vittorio
to ask all ALSes to suggest the three most important ICANN-related issues that they see, for example. But with a short explaination why those suggested issues are of prior relevance to them, as mentioned by Jeanette.
Let’s combine it with Vittorio’s proposal that
some of us should participate in the ALAC working groups on various issues, that are going to start working soon.
By such a procedure we could a come up with a list of priority issues for EURALO and get an idea who isfollowing-up/ covering other issues of the ALAC working groups. A solid working programme and a list of responsibilities among board members could be established by this. For considerations of principle and transparence I would prefer „to conduct our business on this list“ than having a separate board list. Also according to my experiences, a face-to-face board meeting could be more constructive and productive – at least in a start-up period – than a phone conference (which is much cheaper, I agree, but does neither asure availablity nor particpation of all board members). Of course, such a physical board meeting needs prior inputs, consulations on working issues and priorities and a consolidated agenda! But once we have a working programme and and a step- by-step planning, phone conferences are very suitable for interim coordination and consultaions. The Studienkreis meeting in October would be a good opportunity to be used as an outreach meeting for the At Large in Europe -– even if it’s rather late! And I also hope that ICANN could support the travel of the Board to Warsaw. My first preference would be a meeting just before the IGF- consultaions at the very beginning of September (Saturday 1.09.07) in Geneva. I am ready to organise it on a low budget level if travel reimbursements could be arranged. Best regards, Wolf Vittorio Bertola wrote Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:51:
Jeanette Hofmann ha scritto:
and if it's the only candidate we consider him/her elected... or,
if you prefer, we can cast our votes in private in the online system, so that there is a track of a formal vote.
Personally, I prefer a vote to ensure that there is sufficient support for Wolf and for me. But I won't insist on it.
Ok, I think we can ask Nick to set up the voting system, as he did for the vote in May. Should we try to do this in the next couple of weeks? I think that once we have a Chair, we also have someone who can proceed, for example, with publishing the call we were talking about. Also, do we want a mailing list for the Board, or do we want to conduct our business on this list?
I think a face to face meeting is important to establish a more trustful and constructive working atmosphere. So far, we've argued most of the time and disagreed on almost everything. In my experience, face to face meetings do help to overcome such deadlocks. It goes without saying that a face to face meeting needs an agenda, yes. I've been told that ICANN would fund a board meeting if all board members agree that such a meeting is necessary.
There were some talks with Wolfgang about turning the Studienkreis meeting into a major outreach meeting for the At Large in Europe. In that case, I think that ICANN could support the travel of the Board to Warsaw, perhaps even of all the ALSes (not sure - but we should have a GA before the end of the year, right?). Is October too far away in time, however?
(Also, there will be an ICANN meeting in Europe in June 2008, so that should be the time/place for our 2008 GA.)
Ciao, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
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