[Euro-board] EURALO Drafting Team - follow up and next steps
Nick Ashton-Hart
nick.ashton-hart at icann.org
Fri Sep 18 13:06:26 CDT 2009
I can certainly answer these questions I think.
The reason that the EURALO flyer wasn't an insert into the At-Large
brochure is simply because the flyer text is much, much too long for
that to be possible - as you see, in smallish text, it took up all of
two sides of A4 paper.
As the final text of the EURALO flyer was only available a few days
before EuroDIG began - including the weekend - we had to have the people
we use to layout brochures etc work quickly, with no time to redo
anything. I literally took the document you saw to the printer Monday
morning and came at lunchtime to pick them up so they would be available
Monday afternoon.
I didn't bring At-Large flyers because I don't have a stock of them
here, I believed my colleagues in Global Partnerships were bringing
them, as they routinely do so. Unfortunately they didn't this time. I am
checking with them about the issue.
However, your larger question seems to be (correct me if I'm wrong,
please): "Why doesn't ICANN have more material that's attractive and
well-put together describing its multistakeholder model and how various
stakeholder communities can get involved in it" - if this is the
question you are asking, perhaps Scott knows the answer to what we do
have available of that kind.
I am sorry that we didn't have the brochures available, and that the
EURALO flyer was not as good-looking as it could be, but on the latter
point I did the best I could with very, very limited time to go on.
FWIW, I am very glad you care!
Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> I'm sending this rant to the EURALO Board & a small number of people
> who got involved in the drafting of the EURALO flyer in order to avoid
> embarrassment in front of a wider group. After the confusion re:
> nominees for EURALO, we don't need more embarrassment.
>
> Specifically, I am ranting about the finished product EURALO flyer
> which we had at EURODIG earlier this week.
> In the message below (appended to my rant), and also in the working page:
>
> https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?euralo_flyer
>
> ...there is specific mention of the flyer being distributed in
> conjunction with a 3-fold At Large brochure (which, may I say, looked
> very nice on PDF). Indeed, it was agreed that since this was the case,
> the flyer would *not* contain some general information since this was
> part of the brochure itself.
>
> The finished product we had at the EURODIG conference was a double
> sided A4 orange laser-printed sheet of paper.
> No At Large brochure. No 3-fold. No pictures. No explanation about
> what is At Large. Really, nothing to write home about. Not even any
> goodies or anything.... I mean even cheap stuff like a stress ball or
> something.
>
> So my question is, very kindly, "what's gone wrong?"
>
> ICANN absolutely *needs* to show accountability and in Europe
> particularly, where its current US-centered structure is heavily
> criticised, At Large and its multi-stakeholder model is seen as one of
> the most important components of this accountability.
>
> I promised not to give their name, but when I was asked about
> documentation & brochures about At Large & EURALO and only pointed to
> this single sheet of laser printed paper, among the flurry of
> professionally printed documentation, books, booklets and other
> publications from other organisations, it drew a smile on my
> correspondent's face. How can an organisation with a 53 million dollar
> budget present itself in this way? How can ICANN *miss* yet another
> opportunity to show a strong committment to a multi-stakeholder model?
>
> The meetings taking place in Geneva were no smalltime local event.
> EURODIG was very well attended by many high profile individuals and
> organisations, and following-up on these two days, the IGF preparation
> meetings were also very well attended. Other organisations attending,
> supplied a fair bit of quality, professionally printed documentation.
>
> If this is a budget matter, this has to be changed. I'm afraid that if
> ICANN does not believe this, soon there will be no ICANN to worry
> about. If the ICANN leadership does not understand that the concept of
> multi-stakeholderism and bottom-up processes is international and
> user-based, and if the US Government does not see this either, I
> foresee a big clash on the horizon. The pressure is mounting.
>
> This is just a rant, so it's emotional and you're welcome to hit the
> delete key, but I had to get this off my chest because I care.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> --
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Heidi Ullrich <mailto:Heidi.Ullrich at icann.org>
> *To:* ocl at gih.com <mailto:ocl at gih.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:47 PM
> *Subject:* FW: EURALO Drafting Team - follow up and next steps
>
> Dear Olivier,
>
>
>
> Please see below the follow-up message that I sent following the
> EURALO Drafting Team call this past Friday. The attached PDFs are
> the scanned version of the At-Large brochure in which the EURALO
> flyer will be inserted. Please note that the EURALO flyer can only
> be the size of 1 of the 6 sides of the At-Large brochure
> (double-sided). The At-Large brochure exists in EN, FR, DE and I
> believe ES.
>
>
>
> I very much like your suggestion of a photo. I'm sure one of us
> has a nice photo of EURALO from the Summit!
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Heidi
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Heidi Ullrich
> *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 12:49 PM
> *To:* 'Wolf Ludwig'; 'D. Greve'; 'sebastien.bachollet at isoc.fr'
> *Cc:* Scott Pinzon; Nick Ashton-Hart
> *Subject:* EURALO Drafting Team - follow up and next steps
>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
>
>
> As requested, please find attached the scanned At-Large brochure.
> The blue page with the ICANN logo is the front cover of the
> brochure and the page that starts with "More Information" and ends
> with ICANN contact information is the back cover.
>
>
>
> You may wish to consider the following suggested text to explain
> the reasons why European organizations working on
> Internet-related/consumer issues should join EURALO. This text
> could be placed on the first page of the EURALO flyer in bullet
> point form to grab the attention of readers.
>
>
>
> Do you care about:
> · How technical protection measures for the Internet's domain
> name system can help reduce spam, phishing or pharming attacks?
> · How the transition to the Next Generation Internet's
> technical architecture is managed?
> · How those who write in non-Latin languages will be able to
> use those languages in domain names?
> · The stability and security of the key systems (domain name
> and addressing systems) that are the foundations of a single
> secure, interoperable Internet?
>
>
> As Wolf suggested, the At-Large logo could be used for the EURALO
> flyer (see the At-Large Summit logo: http://www.atlarge.icann.org/
> - the At-Large logo will be the same with "summit" removed).
>
>
>
> For the second side of the flyer, several existing EURALO ALSes
> will be contacted this weekend to provide a few sentences of the
> benefit membership in EURALO has brought them ('testimonial')
> including the following:
>
>
>
> - Vittorio (Wolf)
>
> - Rina (Wolf)
>
> - Christopher (Sebastien)
>
> - Veronica (Sebastien)
>
> - Miguel (Sebastien)
>
> - Breda (Heidi)
>
>
>
> Dessi will develop the next draft and work with Sebastien and Wolf
> over the weekend. A follow-up call will be held early next week.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Heidi
>
>
>
> Heidi Ullrich
>
> Manager, At-Large Regional Affairs
>
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>
> Telephone: + 1 (310) 578 - 8647
>
> Fax: +1 (310) 823 - 8649
>
> Cell/Mobile: +1 (310) 437 - 3956
>
>
>
--
--
Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart
Director for At-Large
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