Thank you, Iliya, for a very helpful and inspiring statement on your candidacy. I've been a member of NCUC since the beginning, but haven't been following NCUC/ICANN well at all in recent years. Sigh.... In looking at the other candidates, I can find helpful information in the NCUC mailing list archives from or about everyone with the exception of Carolina Chaves. I also note that her affiliation seems to be spelled incorrectly on the ballot: Alpha-Redi vs Alfa-Redi. Or perhaps it should really be http://latinoamericann.org? Erick Iriarte Ahon wrote: > Alfa-Redi nominate Carolina Chaves (Brasil), she is the coordinator > of LatinoamerICANN Project (http://latinoamericann.org) in Brasil. Can we get some more information from or about Ms Chaves? Many thanks to all who _are_ paying attention and all who are willing to serve.... Neal McBurnett http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ Boulder Community Network Signed and/or sealed mail encouraged. GPG/PGP Keyid: 2C9EBA60 On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:44:29PM +0100, Iliya Nickelt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 22 Nov 2004 at 23:10, Neal McBurnett wrote: > > Candidates: please indicate what your priorities are, your > background, > > your positions on the issues, etc. > > There are new members, also it helps to define some priorities every > now and then, so here's my statement as European EC candidate. (Doing > this while an election is going on is not so democratic, but we do not > have a close race between competitive candidates) > > The EC is primarily an administrative body, so I will concentrate on > that. > We need to have some discussion about our charter review and changes > and then vote on it. The annual report lies ahead, which means we (EC) > have to push all those that received grants from NCUC to write a few > paragraphs about what they achieved, ask the "policy group" (mostly > identical to the grantees) to describe our more general strategy and > compile that. I want a budget overview and some discussion about that, > especially about fees that need to be invoiced (and how). Our Outreach- > Brochure is not coming along. To make things easier, I would like to > see a few server additions: An easy access mailing list, a few > political topics on the web page, and IRC client, and if all that's > done, a groupware (don't know if that's helpful, but I'd like to try). > Ton's of work, which brings up another issue: We need to find a > secretary-treasurer. (After writing about all that's left to do, I > guess the number of potential secretaries dropped to zero). Most of > these topics have been raised before, and I must confess that I have > not done enough work on them, but at least we need to keep the topics > in mind. Not only that Icann slowed down somewhat (or so I think), but > the activity of NCUC has also decreased. We need to raise the mood. > > About me: I'm an astrophysicist and currently mainly busy with raising > my two children. I'm 33 and I live in Berlin, Germany. I know a few > things about networks, forced myself to learn some of the legal and > political issues as well and have been active for / on Icann since > early 2000 and the "Membership implementation task force". I do have > some Icann-specific political positions, too, but won't bother you with > that today.