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Hello,<br>
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please find my comments below:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/02/2017 20:20, Joly MacFie wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:34 PM,
Seun Ojedeji <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I am
currently participating in a review of ISOC Connect as to
whether it should be continue or be replaced. There has been
a fair amount of grumbling,, especially from the old guard,
however one thing I have already learned is that, as far as
ISOC goes, while some Chapters in Africa do use it as their
primary avenue of communication, it's main and important
function is to provide shallow water for new joiners to get
their feet wet, get an idea of the community, and a sense of
belonging. A newbie playground. The idea being that the keen
ones may graduate to traditional vectors such wg's, email
lists, wiki's etc <br>
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The list of problems that ISOC Connect brings is long - the biggest
problem being the inability for cleanly forward a message from the
system to proper email. It contains all sorts of links etc. And you
also have to log in to read its archives. I remind you that the vast
majority of At-Large mailing lists are publicly archived with no
need for a password to consult them.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">There are
also other functional nitpicks that are never fixed. Part of
the problem is that it is a hosted platform (think a
glorified Xing) and thus no real change can happen unless it
is put through on the whole platform. OTOH this is possibly
less maintenance than a standalone such as the FOSS
Buddypress.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">To some
extent the lack of action on At-Large email lists attests to
the success of the Adobe Connect + Confluence combo, but
this may lend itself to elitism. I think, like ISOC,
At-Large could look at driving wider participation.</div>
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We have a working group whose sole task is to look at the new
technologies - the Technology Task Force.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ">https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ</a><br>
The questions we are addressing are age-old and have been raised in
the first At-Large Review *plus* in the ATLAS II Statement where all
of our ALS representatives came to London and discussed that very
problem.<br>
This gave rise to recommendation 26 - a policy management process
system. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.icann.org/x/WJZCAw">https://community.icann.org/x/WJZCAw</a> <br>
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We have also made a request this year for financing to do into the
first stage of this project: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/2kZCnH0">http://bit.ly/2kZCnH0</a><br>
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The TTF also performed various testing of tools:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.icann.org/x/QaM0Aw">https://community.icann.org/x/QaM0Aw</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.icann.org/x/O1R-Ag">https://community.icann.org/x/O1R-Ag</a><br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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