Is the constraint a matter of whether ICANN is paying for it?

On 7/3/07, Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@web.de > wrote:

All,

Before we (the ALAC) handed in the proposal to hire Jean for running the
webtool and feeding in texts from ALAC members on our website - we were
told, that if she would not do any work on content but just facilitating
ALAC/RALO members, there would be no problem in principle to hire someone.
After we handed in our proposal, we were told that as soon as someone
working on our website is paid by ICANN (even if the work is not on
content) any text this person is feeding in - even if it is written by
ALAC/RALO members - this text would have to go through a process of
control by ICANN lawyers.

This was the last of the two contradicting informations we received.

I expected to discuss the issue of running our independent website in
San Juan at some point but it did not work out, so we have to do that
online.

best
annette


Jean Armour Polly schrieb:
> Hi, I'm on the list so I'm following things.
> It would be interesting to know if the limericks (which I read over at
> Facebook!) would even be allowed on the official ALAC site.
> I have to wonder if all the ALS's and the RALOs even know that there
> is a place for them on icannalac.org . The idea that ALAC originally
> had was to create a space unfettered by ICANN legal staff that had to
> vet everything going on the official ALAC site. The independent
> icannalac site was paid for by At Large. It uses the content
> management system Mambo and the intent was that ALAC members would
> take it up where I left off last Dec. When that didn't happen, ALAC
> submitted a proposal to hire me to do what I had been doing as a
> member of ALAC, namely, run the ALAC's ALS voting tool and run the
> independent website. Last I knew, staff had many questions about this
> and since it's now been over six months, that proposal is probably a
> dead issue. I have not heard anything since I was copied on the
> questions.
> My husband is still under contract to do the Mambo updates and
> technical aspects of the site, but the site hasn't had any updates
> since last Dec. Anyone with Mambo skills and interest could take over
> the editorial side.The idea was that each RALO and each ALS would have
> author privileges in their own areas of the site. The word is:
> independent.
> thanks
> JP
>
>
>
> At 3:08 PM +0200 7/2/07, Annette Muehlberg recently said:
>> Hi Evan,
>>
>> it was great getting to know you in San Juan.
>> Robin Gross asked about the limericks you guys made.
>>
>> why not send them out on the at-large list?
>>
>> would be great to put that on our website too. running our -independent-
>> ALAC website is a real issue - which we did not solve after Jean had to
>> leave (and there are some stories to tell why that is the case...). are
>> you in touch with her?
>>
>> best
>> annette
>>
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