Welcome to all new members. In case you have not already seen it, you might find this high-level graphic helpful in understanding how policy is developed within the ICANN ecosystem. Ayden On Mon, May 23, 2016 11:29 AM, hfaiedh ines [log in to unmask] wrote: Welcome everyone :) looking forward to your contributions ! 2016-05-23 11:19 GMT+01:00 Casey Olugbenga Adeleye < [log in to unmask] > : Welcome on board! Quoting Tapani Tarvainen < [log in to unmask] >: Dear all, I am happy to welcome in the NCSG list our new members who were approved by the NCSG EC. They were successfully added to this mailing list and should able to read this welcome message and follow the discussions from now on. As NCSG Chair I'm here to support new and existing members in order to help them be fully involved and participate in our policy discussion. So, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. There are many opportunities to learn about policy development: NCSG's monthly policy call, the quarterly GNSO Working Group newcomers Webinar, and many other calls, mailing lists and web resources. You can see currently open public comment periods at https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public and latest comments from NCSG at https://community.icann.org/x/pCTRAg . You can also check the recordings of NCSG confcalls https://community.icann.org/x/Ah7xAg . While a lot discussion takes place on this list, there is lots of stuff in our wikispace which is updated regularly, please take a look at < https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home or more easy to remember ncsg.is . Browsing there will help you get an idea of what we have done and are doing. In particular if you want to know more about how to participate in working groups and NCSG, please follow the announcements here and be in touch with the Policy committee chair and me. These links may also be of interest: General tips: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/How+To+Get+Involved List of working groups and their members: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups Policy comments and statements: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings+Record A one-stop page about ICANN's policy efforts: http://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-efforts.htm Information about GNSO and about GNSO activities during ICANN meetings: http://gnso.icann.org/en/icannmeeting To catch up with ongoing discussion see the mailing list archive: https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=NCSG-DISCUSS Often useful is the NCSG calendar you can find here: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG+Events+Calendar You can also follow NCSG in Twitter (@NCSG_ICANN) and Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/64248280811/ ). Finally, if you begin to 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 So, let's all welcome our latest members: Albino Biasutti Neto, Brazil Aleksandra Paravina, Finland Robert Gellman, USA Valentina pellizzer, Bosnia Herzegovina Khaled Khelifi, Tunisia Christopher Dennett, United Kingdom Fabrizio Moreira, United States Welcome! Tapani Tarvainen NCSG Chair ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding the mailing list: Here is some important information about your new subscription, which we recommend that you preserve for future reference. 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