[EURO-Discuss] Should EURALO sign a petition? Should you?

Fri Feb 23 12:07:45 UTC 2018

Agree 100% with Stephane

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From: EURO-Discuss <euro-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Stéphane Van Gelder - Milathan <svg at milathan.ltd>
Date: Wednesday 21 February 2018 at 22:16
To: Andrei Kolesnikov <andrei at rol.ru>, Euralo <euro-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Olivier Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Should EURALO sign a petition? Should you?

Completely agree with Andrei. I oppose the signing of a petition to oppose cuts. I would add to his reasons the fact that the Board Chair and the CEO have both laid down extremely well articulated arguments for why budget cuts are needed. I would worry that a EURALO response through a petition would not only look political, it would look immature.

If we have strong arguments as to why some cuts should not happen, let’s produce them through the usual ICANN discussion channels open to us.

Thanks,

Stéphane

On 21 Feb 2018, at 21:24, Andrei Kolesnikov <andrei at rol.ru<mailto:andrei at rol.ru>> wrote:

I'm against signing any petition on change.org<http://change.org/>, because it sounds political. If community  is against the cut, this must be articulated with facts, numbers and names. I don't like personnel cost increase, but this is another issue. --andrei

2018-02-21 20:06 GMT+03:00 Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com<mailto:ocl at gih.com>>:
Dear colleagues,

on yesterday's EURALO monthly call, the following Action Item was recorded.
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Olivier Crepin-Leblond<https://community.icann.org/display/%7Eolivier.crepin-leblond> Olivier to follow up on the EURALO mailing list on the suggestion from Oksana for EURALO support the petition against reduction of the ICANN fellowship as well as to write an EURALO statement against the CROP elimination.

As you know, the ICANN FY19 budget is undergoing to reduction. This will mean that some programmes are frozen, whilst others are actually reduced. The current draft of the program is showing drastic cuts in community engagement and policy. The Fellowship is being slashed, and so is the NextGen program. The Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program (CROP) which was confirmed into the main budget as it was seen as being so helpful, is being cancelled altogether. It is a terrible state of affairs, as it appears that ICANN has targeted community initiatives for outreach and engagement to a much greater extent that other programmes and the cuts, as a percentage of the budget for outreach and engagement initiatives are way larger than for other programmes.

You might has seen a petition out there, entitled "Stop the ICANN Budget Cuts and Save the Fellowship Program!"
On last night's EURALO call, Oksana Prykhodko asked whether EURALO could be inclined to sign this petition:
https://www.change.org/p/icann-stop-the-icann-budget-cuts-and-save-the-fellowship-program

The signing of a petition is highly unusual for a RALO. I can recall several occurrences of a RALO releasing its own Statement. I can also recall EURALO supporting EuroDIG as a partner - and this translates to the EURALO Chair (previously Wolf Ludwig and now yours truly) being active in the organisation of EuroDIG. If my memory serves me right, the only time EURALO has signed a Petition, might be the signature for support of NetMundial outcomes. Perhaps can Wolf help with other potential occurences?

At the end of the day, there are no rules on whether EURALO may or may not sign this petition. So the decision is in your hands, the EURALO members.

Should EURALO sign the petition?
Should your ALS sign the petition?

Kindest regards,

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
EURALO Chair

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