Welcome to all new members! 2015-10-26 9:56 UTC+02:00, Mahdi Taghizadeh <[log in to unmask]>: > Dear Rafik and my colleagues! > > Thank you very much for your warm welcome and it's my chance to be a > NCSG/NCUC member with all you expert guys here. As someone with a technical > background who has some concerns for non-commercial stakeholders as well; I > hope I can be a bridge between the two communities and advance the > communications to the next level. > > > > > *Mahdi Taghizadeh* > *More at mahdi.ws <http://mahdi.ws>* > *PGP at keybase.io/mahdi <http://keybase.io/mahdi>* > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone. >> >> I am glad to welcome in the NCSG list our new individual members who >> were approved by the NCSG EC. >> >> They were successfully added to this mailing list and so able to read >> this >> welcoming and follow the discussions. >> >> I am happy as NCSG chair, to support new and existing members in order to >> let them be fully involved and participate in our policy discussion and >> for >> that I am ready to respond to your questions with the help of other >> experienced members and officers. I had mail exchange and even skype >> calls >> for those who asked, so please feel free to contact me if you want more >> information or asking for clarifications. >> >> There are opportunities to learn about policy development : with the >> quarterly GNSO Working Group newcomers Webinar, for which the schedule >> will be shared in due time. We are at Dublin meeting with ongoing >> discussion about ICANN accountability and we had our sessions yesterday >> https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/tue-ncsg. >> >> A lot of public comments >> <https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public> and important reports >> to cover (priority-wise) and much more in the coming weeks. For example >> you can read out latest comments from NCSG here >> <https://community.icann.org/x/pCTRAg> , in particular about ICANN >> accountability proposal http://goo.gl/xqUxHC . you can also check the >> recordings of NCSG confcalls https://community.icann.org/x/Ah7xAg . >> >> >> Some information, you should keep somewhere: >> >> - While a lot discussion happen here, there are several information in >> our wikispace which is updated regularly, please check here >> <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home> >> or >> more easy to remember ncsg.is . Navigating there will give flavour of >> what we did and are doing. >> >> >> - In particular if you want some info on how to participate in working >> groups and NCSG , please follow the announcements shared here and be >> in >> touch with the Policy committee chair and me . Also please check >> those >> links too: >> - Some tips to >> *https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/How+To+Get+Involved >> >> <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/How+To+Get+Involved>* >> - List of working groups and members involved >> >> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups >> >> - Policy comments and statements here: >> >> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development >> >> - Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings: >> *https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings+Record >> >> <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings+Record>* >> - There is a one-stop page >> >> <http://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-efforts.htm> >> to >> find all information about GNSO and also about GNSO activities >> <http://gnso.icann.org/en/icannmeeting> during ICANN meeting. >> >> >> - Also to catch-up with ongoing discussion in the mailing list archive >> : https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=NCSG-DISCUSS >> - Also you can find the NCSG calendar here: >> >> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG+Events+Calendar >> >> - Finally, don't feel overwhelmed by ICANN acronyms, you will find >> most of them in this glossary >> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/glossary-2014-02-03-en >> >> >> Please welcome warmly: >> >> *Individual* >> >> 1. 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