Updates from Staff on NARALO initiatives, First Nation, accessibility
Briefing by Working Groups members about the actions and initiatives in their working groups and in the Cross community working groups.
FEBRUARY
Updates on NARALO Special Budget Requests
Review of current CROPP applications and what still needs to be done
Updates from Staff on NARALO initiatives, First Nation, accessibility
Briefing by Working Groups members about the actions and initiatives in their working groups and in the Cross community working groups.
MARCH
Update from Evan and Glenn on their CROPP trips to NTEN
Opened up discussions on the upcoming NARALO leadership vacancies for 2015
Recruitment drive for NARALO members on working groups and also review of current members of the CROPP RT as the result of the changes made to this committee.
Discussion by Holly Raiche of the upcoming At Large Review and recruitment of members to be on her committee
APRIL
Welcome back from Garth and goodbye to Evan
Call for Elections for Chair, Secretary, ALAC 1, ALAC 2 (replacement for Glenn) and Nom Com
Update on recent CROPP trips by Judith H. to SxSW. Evan on his CROPP trip to ARIN
Working Groups update: Technology Task Force, CROPP, IANA Transition
Update from Staff on the Special Budget Request that we would not know until end of April.
Recruitment for people to join the new CROPP and Outreach/Engagement working Group. Briefing on the new structure and TOR for the Outreach Committee.
Review of the new template format for monthly reports and to seek suggestions, comments on this template
MAY
Announcement of FY 16 Budget results
Ebooks Approval budget unknown
Captioning Approved for first year. The schedule will be for the first 3 months of a total of 9 meetings.
First Nations fellowship- Not Approved
GA NARALO tied with EURALO , postponed to 2016 fiscal period for ICANN PR
Election results
Acclaimed
Garth Bruen as ALAC representative
Alan Greenberg as ALAC representative
Glenn McKnight as NARALO Chair
Eduardo Dias as NOMCOM rep
Elected
Judith Hellerstein as NARALO Secretariat
JUNE
Outreach and promotion at the CIRA CIF on June 10th in Ottawa which saw numerous ICANN staff speaking about the IANA transition at the event
Attended the ICANN 53 BA, Argentina
NARALO report at ALAC
NARALO meeting
Accessibility Meeting
Side meeting With Judith Hellerstein, Josh Baulch, Christina from Language Services, Silvia Vivanco to discuss implementation of Captioning Pilot. Was decided to have an evaluation after the first 3 months. Also at this early stage only English captioning will be used. Also transcripts form the current provider will be kept and then reviewed and compared against the transcripts from the captioning provider. If the transcripts from the captioning of the call are found to be adequate than the current transcripts provider will be cancelled and the costs of these transcripts will be placed into the captioning program to fund it and also to expand into other languages depending on the demand.
Sub-Regional Meeting Proposed in NYC: The idea is to have mini-regional, informal meetings in locations accessible to a number of members - possibly New York City in September.
Comparing ATLAS II Objectives with At-Large CWG Work: Are we staying to true to what we pledge as a community in work that follows an ATLAS or other proposal?
Thanks to Eduardo Diaz we have the first ever NARALO Newsletter! Tell us what YOU are doing.
Conflict of Interest within the ICANN Structure: Recent research into ICANN's documents show inconsistencies in the organizational structure as presented to the community. It appears that Compliance actually reports to the business division (Global Domains Division) of ICANN rather than to the CEO. This may be a conflict of interest as well as not what we have been told. See this page for details and discussion: Transparency and Accountability in the ICANN Structure
NARALO CROPP Outreach Strategic plan created and provided to community for feedback
Request to NARALO members to get involved with the ALS Criteria Evaluation Committee-No volunteers, Glenn McKnight volunteered as the ALAC member till end of his term in October
September
NARALO CROPP Outreach Strategic Plan approved by GSE
Second request to NARALO members to join the ALS Criteria Evaluation Committee- No volunteers
Creation of a promotional Captioning mailcard to request participation and suggestions, a survey created for evaluation
Alan Skuce and Glenn McKnight agreed to stand as the CROPP Coordinators. Waiting for the FBSC meeting to official confirmation
Extensive review of attendance for 2015 and 2014 working with Staff verifying low attendance so NARALO Chair and Secretariat are going to organization orientation sessions for new ALS as an open session.for topics on their interest. The goal to engage the ALS's and help them become integrated
New Naralo newsletter to be created by Eduardo Diaz
GSE has created a Civil Society Engagement and Naralo has created a event calendar with more detail and sent to staff
October
Presentation at McGill University with Joe Catapano on ICANN and NARALO
Creation of Outreach and Engagement budget considerations for FY17
Members participation with various working groups ie. Technology Taskforce, Accessibility, Capacity, CCWG, ALS Criteria and more
October meeting in Dublin
Update on the Outreach and Engagement update and GSE
Adoption of the CROPP Strategic Plan
Special Guest Compliance head Alan Grogan
November
Oureach to 21 ALS that have had low attendance by email and phone to attend the monthly calls
Draft GA application creation for FY 17 with Judith and Eduardo and provided draft to staff