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NARALO Reports

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Reports 2016

 

August 

  • Monthly meeting
  • Review and selection of substitute for  Garth Bruen for  ICANN 57-  Dr John Laprise
  • Review and selection by committee of the  Tribal Ambassadors
  • Feedback to Ariel on broken links on new NARALO website.  Request to change old picture 
  • Applications for  CROPP by  Tom and  Leah
  • Approval for  William Cunningham as Unaffiliated member
  • Outreach to Randy Glass, Satish, Darlene and Mark Urban to participate
    • Mark spoke with  Judith and Glenn to be active
    • Judith spoke with Statish
    • Darlene group request for decertification to staff
    • Randy sent email warning  letter for potential decertification 

July 

  • No Monthly meeting 
  • John Laprise  volunteered on July 12 for the ALAC Appointee Selection Committee 
  • Creation of the August NARALO Call agenda
  • Encouragement for two new ALS  applications-  www.firstmile.ca   Dr. Rob McMahon 
  • Received one new  ALS  application from John LaPrise
  • Promotion of  NARALO at the IGF USA  in attendance  Judith, David, Glenn,  Seth and Louis
  • Feedback to the CROPP RT  Team as followup to changes in CROPP 
  • Emails to  Darlene Thompson, Mark Urban,  Randy Glass  and S. SIngh reminding them of their  ALS obligations
  • Planning  Adobe Connect  call with the volunteer committee  for the   TAP
  • Creation of the procedures for application for the  Tribal Ambassorship Program TAP
  • Creation of  online form for  applicants for TAP
  • Planning Adobe Connect call for the  Naralo GA
  • Two volunteers for  the  DDDPP    Gordon and Glenn

  • https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CRALO/New+FY16+ICANN+Community+Document+Development+and+Drafting+Resource+Pilot+Program

     

June Monthly Reports

  • Two  meetings this month
    • Helsinki 
    • Normal  meeting 

 

May Monthly Reports

  • Monthly call with 19 attendees
  • First time French translation on monthly call
  • Acclaimed positions with NARALO
    • Chair- Glenn McKnight
    • Secretariat-Judith Hellerstein
    • NOMCOM- Eduardo Diaz
  • Election for  ALAC  position between  Louis Houle and Alan Greenberg
  • Agenda 
  • Application from  ISOC  North Carolina being reviewed
  • Creation of  the  CROPP  Strategic Plan submitted to GSE
  • Revisions on  the  Rules of  Procedures on  the decertification process
  • Decertification process to ALAC commenced
    • Attempt to contact  Michael  Miranda again, no response

April Monthly Reports 

  • Followup with  ISOC North Carolina
  • Outreach to community resulting in a record 25 names on the April 11th call
  • Community interest in French and Spanish on the monthly NARALO calls
  • Call for volunteers on the new  NARALO Mailcard
  • Followup with ISOC Special Needs and Randy Glass
  • Followup with ARIN on the MOU 

March  

  • Oureach at the  SSIG in Washington - ISOC North Carolina potential ALS
  • ALAC announced that  ISOC Washington  DC  is the newest  NARALO  ALS
  • Training of  ISOC  Washington to be organized  with Paul Brigner and  David Vorst
  • They will be doing a short  presentation in April or May of ISOC  DC
  • Attendance at  16NTC in San Jose for  NARALO outreach and  Global Summit in Vancouver -2 Cropp Trips
  • ICANN 55 in Marakesh 

 

February

  • Submission to the  ALAC for vote on ISOC Washington DC
  • Rough consensus on the acceptance of  ISOC  Washington DC as a  new  ALS
  • Communication challenges with ICANN Constituency Travel for  Le Marie and Alfredo's  Cropp  trips which were approved for their  travel and hotels

 

 

January

  • Due diligence on new  ALS  application from  ISOC Washington DC
  • Outreach to non participatory ALS
  • Request to  non participatory ALS  who are not interested in participatory to send a request to be removed from the list 

Reports  2015

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

 

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 Niagilli 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 so NARALO ALS's have a better chance to win one of the fellowship.  The next  ARIN event is in Jamaica in April
  • Judith Hellerstein's  outreach to the community for Beta testers on the Captioning First with Adobe has been sent out by staff. . NARALO has two  special needs  organizations  which we will be asking their  members to participate in one or more of the special  calls to provide feedback.  A  short  survey has been designed for  attendees  on Adobe  for their  user experience
  • Request for membership with FBSC  has been requested.  Judith Hellerstein will be sitting member
  • Request by Holly for a second  NARALO rep for the Working Review Working Party Members    Currently Eduardo sits on this committee
  • Analysis of  Attendance
    • Attendance for  December  13 representing 9 ALS
    • Attendance for year  385 for  24 meetings( Monthly meetings plus WG)
    • Monthly meetings  11 meetings  151 attendees( ALS and Guests)  and 118 ALS members

  • Looking forward to 2016
    • Organizing the Information Webinars for new and missing in action members
    • Clean up the database of missing organizations and special invites to information webinars planned in January and Feb
      • Names of organizations with One or  Zero attendance- 16 organizations  ( 18 are active)
        • AFCN
        • Manitoba E Association
        • Nova Scotia Community Access Program
        • Web 405
        • Online News Association
        • CAUSE
        • ISOC Special needs
        • American AtLarge
        • Privaterra
        • Communautique
        • VIBUG
        • Open Media
        • Privatera
        • ISOC Colorado
        • N-CAP
        • Youth helping Youth
        • All except  Alan Greenberg of the Unaffiliated members are absent
    • Outreach to membership to get their involvement in policy work and working groups in new year
    • Planning for  ICANN PR when approved