I think perhaps we have been talking at cross-purposes here. I am familiar with the list of priorities; I attended the meeting where they were drawn up. In order for ICANN to allocate funds to something, as I have previously said, there is a form for requesting them which requires a plan and a budget - the budget not being a one-line entry on a spreadsheet, and the plan not being a one-line entry next to it. We had a number of emails about the subject of recruitment at the time, and I believe also this was discussed on one of the monthly teleconferences as well. I remember that I said if you wanted to have a recruitment event associated with the LA meeting, it was for you to tell me what you wanted to do and come up with a plan of what you wanted to do, and that it could not just be a way to get 20 ALSes to come to the LA meeting for a de-facto additonal RALO meeting. We seem to be going in circles here, where everytime the circle comes to me, I get to be the bad guy again and go on defense. Not being funny, but we don't get anywhere that way. I am not sure what is going wrong that these comments are not getting through - perhaps I'm saying it wrong or being unclear in some way but honestly - I'm absolutely certain that all of you would be better-able to suggest how to do North American outreach than I would be. Jacob has resigned, so there is no regional liaison available at the present to help with this. I am happy to help in whatever way I can, but what I have in front of me now is a line or two in a spreadsheet, related to recruitment in LA. With respect to everyone, that isn't a plan. If there's something more and I've missed it, please let me know what it is... or ask me to ring and we can discuss it. That would, it seems to me, be rather more productive than playing email ping-pong on this issue. On 19 Sep 2007, at 14:23, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
Frankly, this IS disturbing. At the San Juan meeting, the NARALO was specifically told that if we did not come up with a plan of what we wanted to do this year, then ICANN would have make one up of their own devising. So, to that end, we all met upstairs and came up with a plan:
https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?planning_next_steps_for_na_ralo
This plan, along with the budget attached, was discussed more than once over the list and forwarded widely. Staff was also informed that it was up and that they should look at it (since this Wiki seems to be the ICANN choice for information sharing).
And then nothing happened.
So, if they aren’t approving the outreach that we wanted to do in LA, my question is: so what wild and wonderful thing DID they come up with for our region for this year since we have been told NO to almost anything we have wanted to do?
Sorry, just my brain dump for the morning.
D
Darlene A. Thompson
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From: RJGlass | America@Large [mailto:jipshida@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:52 PM To: Evan Leibovitch Cc: Thompson, Darlene; At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] Schedule Posted for ICANN's 30th International Public Meeting
First, I'm not surprised but I am disturbed that ICANN failed to host a NARALO meeting.
Anyway, I presume we'll try to be brief yet functional on these matters.
I think when you announce the idea, you should solicit input on what the ALSs want to get out of the summit. One session on opening day would be good, and one more later in the week, possibly 3 brief meetings would be better than one.
aloha, RJ
On 9/18/07, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
Thompson, Darlene wrote:
I'm thinking that the sooner the better for the first one so that we can all get on the same page and do further planning throughout.
I'm thinking more than one session will be needed.
Anybody else have thoughts on this?
My suggestion is for at least three things:
1) Specific inclusion of a Summit status report and discussion on the ALAC meeting agenda (whenever that takes place)
2) A public meeting to introduce the concept to all ICANN constituencies (early in the week)
3) at least eight hours of planning, of which at least one has Nick (or someone else from ICANN staff) present. Some of this will probably be a small enough group that it can meet in a hotel room rather than requiring the expense of a formal meeting room.
- Evan
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