Hi Avri, Please join the Media Team group on the NCUC website, we're just getting formally organized: http://ncdnhc.org/group/mediateam Brenden Kuerbis Internet Governance Project http://internetgovernance.org On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Avri Doria<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does the NCUC have an outreach committee or something like that. Some group > of talented volunteers who are good at spreading the message and bringing > new people to the table? Or has all that work been left to the chair? > > Obviously amazing things have been done in bringing in new members, and if > it was done by the chair and the EC in their copious free time it is even > more amazing. I do not mean to denigrate what has been done, it is amazing, > I am just wondering. > > thanks > a. > > > > On 19 Aug 2009, at 21:51, Norbert Klein wrote: > >> Excellent math research - where does it go, beyond our internal NCUC list? >> Do we have a PUBLIC wiki or something where facts can be added, updated >> etc., and one can invite and direct other people (who many not be readers of >> the NCUC-DISCUSS list) to see these facts? >> >> One of the problem which led to the present crisis is - I think - that we >> were not organized well enough (like other interests were, who have other >> resources) to spread our side of the story as it developed. >> >> >> Norbert >> >> = >> >> Robin Gross wrote: >>> >>> The Facts. >>> >>> Commercial Stakeholder Group Membership. >>> According to the Business Constituency's website, they have 44 members. >>> According to the IPR Constituency's website, they have 18 members. >>> According to the ISP Constituency's website, (they don't publish >>> membership lists and haven't had a post to their email list in 2009). But, >>> according the 2006 LSE Report (the last documented account of the ISP >>> Constituency's membership, they have 42 members. >>> >>> So if we add the membership of these 3 commercial constituencies >>> together, we get total of 104 members in the Commercial Stakeholder Group, >>> who will elect 6 GNSO Councilors. >>> >>> Contrast: >>> NCUC has 142 members but noncommercial users will not be allowed to elect >>> any of our new GNSO Councilors on the claim that we are too small to deserve >>> to elect all 6 GNSO Councilors. >>> >>> Did anyone from ICANN staff/SIC do any math before they ruled >>> non-commercial users are too small to deserve to elect all 6 GNSO >>> Councilors? >>> NCSG membership = 142 members (allowed 3 elected representatives) >>> CSG membership = 104 members (allowed 6 representatives) >>> >>> What was the decision-making process that led to ICANN's determination >>> that noncommercial users are too small? Seriously, we deserve to know how >>> they arrived at that decision and upon what facts the decision was based - >>> it is our elected representation that they are meddling with. ICANN will >>> have to answer this. >>> >>> >>> IP JUSTICE >>> Robin Gross, Executive Director >>> 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA >>> p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 >>> w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask] >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> If you want to know what is going on in Cambodia, please visit >> The Mirror, a regular review of the Cambodian language press in English. >> >> This is the latest weekly editorial of the Mirror: >> >> “Every Khmer citizen shall be equal before the law" >> http://tinyurl.com/krt6gy >> >> (To read it, click on the line above.) >> >> And here is something new every day: >> http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com > >