JANUARY

1. Updates and approvals of new ALSes

2. Updates on the decertification of ALSes
3. Update of current CROPP applications
4. Updates from Staff on NARALO initiatives, First Nation, accessibility
5. Briefing by Working Groups members about the actions and initiatives in their working groups and in the Cross community working groups.

FEBRUARY

1. Updates on NARALO Special Budget Requests
2. Review of current CROPP applications and what still needs to be done
3. Updates from Staff on NARALO initiatives, First Nation, accessibility
4. Briefing by Working Groups members about the actions and initiatives in their working groups and in the Cross community working groups.

MARCH

1. Update from Evan and Glenn on their CROPP trips to NTEN
2. Opened up discussions on the upcoming NARALO leadership vacancies for 2015
3. 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.
4. Discussion by Holly Raiche of the upcoming At Large Review and recruitment of members to be on her committee

APRIL

1. Welcome back from Garth and goodbye to Evan
2. Call for Elections for Chair, Secretary, ALAC 1, ALAC 2 (replacement for Glenn) and Nom Com
3. Update on recent CROPP trips by Judith H. to SxSW. Evan on his CROPP trip to ARIN
4. Working Groups update: Technology Task Force, CROPP, IANA Transition
5. Update from Staff on the Special Budget Request that we would not know until end of April.
6. Recruitment for people to join the new CROPP and Outreach/Engagement working Group. Briefing on the new structure and TOR for the Outreach Committee.
7. 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.
• Reports from ICANN53 BA (NARALO Did most of the posting!) some of the specific issues discussed at the NARALO Meeting in BA:

1. 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. 
2. 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?
3. Thanks to Eduardo Diaz we have the first ever NARALO Newsletter! Tell us what YOU are doing. 
4. Recommendations for ICANN's Auction Surplus/High Interest Topic Session: The Chair served on this panel and recommended that use of these funds follow ICANN's mandate and focus on areas where the organization may be failing in the mandate, especially in the areas of improved accessibility for the disabled communities.
5. 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

JULY

• Chair and Secretary participated in ALAC Call  7/28/15
• NARALO monthly call canceled due to nearness to the BA meeting
• The Secretary put out a call for volunteers to join the Outreach and Engagement Committee
• Chair continued his work on Transparency and Accountability in the ICANN Structure

AUGUST

• NARALO 2015.08.10 Teleconference

• 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
• On Oct 30th.  Judith and Glenn spoke with Susan Hamlin regarding a  ongoing NARALO  Laison
  
  • Arin doesn't endorse any formal liaison relationships with groups
  • ARIN has expanded it's fellowship to include  5 from the US and 5 from Canada
  • Fellowship can now be repeated
  • We proposed to Susan that  Leah of  ISOC SF  be an active participate in ongoing fellowship applications
• October  meeting in Dublin 
  • Update on  the Outreach and Engagement update obviouslGSE
  • Adoption of  the  CROPP Strategic Plan
    
  • Special  Guest   Compliance  head  Alan Grogan
  • Request by Garth on transparency in ICANN  Financial report
    

November

• Outreach to 21 ALS  that  have had low attendance by email and phone to attend the monthly calls.  Some of the numbers and websites  are not functonal.  Working with staff to update the database
• Draft  GA  application creation for  FY 17 with Judith and Eduardo and provided draft to staff.  This  draft sent to staff for  feedback
• Request from staff for outstanding  Action items, none  reported
• Updated  NARALO  presentation  Link   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XWH-yAYyVRYPss5B3nKH8tt2r7QJT8G4958Mqfquafk/edit#slide=id.g4b02fe39_0_0
• Completion of  the first  CROPP  financial request for the NTEN trip and  has been reviewed by Alan Skuce
• Judith has volunteered to be on the FBSC
• Selection for the Review  Team for the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team
  
  

December

• In response to the  conversations  to many of the ALS's that the 3 pm call is a problem we did a straw vote during the meeting and obviously the majority on the call were pleased. Action item.  a  doodle survey will go out in January asking all members if alternative times would be suitable

• Budget Time FY17 opened on Dec 14th and requests from NARALO includes  the  ICANN PR  for October 2016, The proposal has been reviewed by the community and submitted.  Other  proposals  may come from Loris Taylor and Anthony Nigilli with an updated  First Nations Fellowship and a Augmented Reality Comic book from Alfredo Calderone

• CROPP  Submission for NTEN  has been submitted and approved
• Promotion to the  membership  of  the  ARIN  Fellowship which includes  15 new fellowships
• Followup with the