May I suggest that rather than waiting for face-to-face meetings months down the line, an easier and quicker option would be to have a teleconference? I'm happy to schedule one and since many policy developments are speeding up as a consequence of the work in San Juan, I recommend that a conference for the region to at least be briefed on the current schedule of policy related events. In several cases the ICANN board has specifically requested the At- Large community's considered input - in the case of some things views would need to be collected and submitted in only a few weeks' time. In addition, there are several worldwide policy working groups - you can find these all at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi? at_large_policy_working_groups. We are asking all regions to find at least one volunteer from each region to participate in each of these; since EURALO hasn't elected regional officers or appointed an interim Secretariat - nobody has even volunteered to act as a temporary Secretariat - you are frankly falling behind the other regions who are more organised. None of this is meant to be critical - on the contrary, I'm hoping that it causes at least one or two people in the EURALO, or the board, to volunteer to join the policy development work... On 6 Jul 2007, at 15:22, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
Hello,
EURALO should get started and there are several things that need clarification in order to get started. To name just a few:
1 EURALO board: * We need to elect chairs * We need to clarify the role of the board (is it of a more coordinative nature or is its role an initializing one?)
2 Work plan * We need to discuss what issues we want to adress in the coming months and we need to agree on what our priorities are. I guess we all agree that we won't be able to cover all the topics ICANN is dealing with. We need to be selective, and it would be good to have a discussion on this list on what matters to us and why. **
3 Board meeting * The Euralo Board should meet after (or during?) the summer break. Where and when? In combination with another meeting? Two possibilities come to mind: ** We could meet in Geneva on the first weekend in September preceding the next open consultation of the IGF. ** We could meet in mid October in Warsaw at Wolfgang's Studienkreismeeting (Oct. 10/11).
What do people think?
Best, Jeanette and Wolf
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