I am extremely sorry for delayed response.
I understand and support you concern, I am also convinced that some one
from Latin Script Native Speaker should lead the group.
However, we need to ball rolling after
the departure of Chris and especially Meikal is extremely busy, as communicated
by him, I am willing to share your load, until some one becomes willing
to join as a chair. Let us plan for conference call to discuss comments
of Integration Panel on document submitted by Chris.
Best Regards, Ahmed
Bakht Masood
Deputy Director (ICT/Network),
Pakistan Telecom
Authority,
Headquarters F-5/1,
Islamabad, Pakistan
Phone (O): 0092-51-9225361
From:
Mirjana Tasic <Mirjana.Tasic@rnids.rs>
To:
Ahmed Bakhat Masood
<ahmedbakhat@pta.gov.pk>, Meikal Mumin <meikal.mumin@uni-koeln.de>
Cc:
"LatinGP@icann.org"
<LatinGP@icann.org>
Date:
05/28/2016 10:27 AM
Subject:
RE: [Latingp]
Future of LGP and the vacant chair
Dear colleagues,
I was very sorry hearing that Chris is
leaving us. He was a good chair, we have done a huge job thanks to his
effort and commitment.
I am very honoured with your proposal to
become a chair of our working group but I am not sure that I am the good
choice for the new chair.
I have to stress your attention to some
obstacles I have.
· My background is
not linguistic ( although I have learned some Latin and Ancient Greek
many years ago), most of my professional life was committed to computer
networks and information processing.
· I am not an English
native speaker so we shall need someone to review and correct any English
text I wrote.
· I cannot travel
far distances by plain because of my health condition.
· And the last one
for the moment, I shall have some more time to commit to our project later
this year, probably October.
I think that the right solution could be
to have few co chairs, so they can support each other in different aspects
of our work.
Regards Mirjana
Od: latingp-bounces@icann.org <latingp-bounces@icann.org>
u ime korisnika Ahmed Bakhat Masood <ahmedbakhat@pta.gov.pk>
Poslato: 27. maj 2016. 17:29
Za: Meikal Mumin
Cc: LatinGP@icann.org
Tema: Re: [Latingp] Future of LGP and the vacant chair
I agree with Meikal, Chris
did wonderful job and it would be unfortunate for the community to lose
him, however, we need to move forward.
Mirjana has also done wonderful job, she may be a good choice for the group.
Sent from IBM Lotus Traveler
Meikal Mumin --- [Latingp]
Future of LGP and the vacant chair ---
From:
"Meikal
Mumin" <meikal.mumin@uni-koeln.de>
To:
LatinGP@icann.org
Date:
Fri,
27 May 2016 7:56 pm
Subject:
[Latingp]
Future of LGP and the vacant chair
Dear colleagues,
it is really sad that Chris
had to step down from the position as chair. I'm glad that we had him for
so long and I am impressed at the amount of work he saw through together
with the group.
I suggest we discuss how
to go on from here - What do you all think is the future of LGP? I think
we need a chair, who ideally should receive strong secretariat support
from ICANN to help organize the re-occurring chores of such a position,
such as setting up calendar events, scheduling meetings, setting polls,
helping with the infrastructure of shared documents, etc.
Unfortunately, I'm not in
a position to dedicate that much time to our group and therefore can not
volunteer for such a role. However, I suggest we communicate to see if
anyone among is able and ready to take such a position either temporarily,
or ideally permanently.
If there is no one for the
moment, I assume we should talk about if and how we could operate without,
a chair, or if structural changes are needed (multiple/split chairs) or
if we should start reaching out to the community again until someone presents
her or himself with enough support from the group and the community.
Whatever road we take, I
would wish for us to find a way to continue with this project. We have
made good progress from my point of view and I believe this is important
work.