Re: [alac] Welcome letter to new ALSes

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:43 PM 4/25/2006 +0200, Annette Muehlberg wrote:
> Also, do we really need all these different email-lists?
> <als-discuss@xxxxxxxxx>
> <http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/> This forum is not really 
> attractive, it looks like half of it is spam. someone should at 
> least look after it.
>
> And why do we not at least invite the ALSes to take part in the 
> public ALAC mailing list? That should be, apart from our website, 
> our central communication tool.

I agree, communication, both with ALSs and within ALAC is very 
important.  Given the difficulties that even we, a 15-member 
committee, have in connecting by telephone, I would like to propose 
that we budget some resources and time to finding better tools to 
move our discussions forward.   Yes, let's invite ALSs into the 
alac@icann mailing list.

I find that the ICANNwiki has been helpful recently, in collecting 
evolving drafts and discussions.  If we are happy to use a public 
wiki (I am), we could start by adopting a section of the ICANNwiki 
site for discussions.   If we would prefer to have finer-grained 
control over our wiki, we could set one up through a provider such as 
SocialText.

Would people be willing to try IRC or an IM chatroom during the next 
conference call, as well?

--Wendy

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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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