Hi Ralph further to your recent provision of a test survey based on the Questions to the Community from the ICANN Web site, some feedback received from Team members so far and our brief discussions at our ATRT meeting today; I've been asked to confirm with you if the "quote" I gave them for the purposes of budget allocation inquiries of $3000 USD (for a survey in the UN Languages + Portuguese) still stands (as our Review Team Chair Brian Cute and ICANN Board Chair Peter Dengate-Thrush, are having further talks re ATRT funding and budget this week...<div>
<br></div><div>To that end I've forwarded the original email with my responses to some of your questions and where you mentioned the costs amount (copied then only to the RT Chair and Vice Chair) back in May to the full ATRT list as we will be discussing this matter more in Next weeks ATRT Meeting (and you should know that feedback so far indicates changes to the detail of the questions would be required) but more on that after Team discussion(s) ); And most importantly to confirm back by return email directly to Brian Cute ASAP that the $3000 USD figure still stands so that this amount can be considered along with our other potential expenses.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Cheryl Langdon-Orr<br>(CLO)<br><br>
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Date: 24 May 2010 14:58<br>Subject: Re: sample<br>To: Ralph McKay <<a href="mailto:ralph@bigpulse.com">ralph@bigpulse.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:briancute@afilias.info">briancute@afilias.info</a>, Manal Ismail <<a href="mailto:manal@tra.gov.eg">manal@tra.gov.eg</a>><br>
<br><br>Hey I've only just finished looking at the first link and was about to reply with => "yes this is heading in the right direction, what do we need to do next?" reply :-)<div><br></div><div>For other matter raised see inter-spaced bellow...<br>
<div><br clear="all">Cheryl Langdon-Orr<br>(CLO)<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 24 May 2010 14:32, Ralph McKay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralph@bigpulse.com" target="_blank">ralph@bigpulse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Hi Cheryl,<br>
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It's not quite finished but I just sent another link to show progress.
In some places we made the text more concise as this will help with
translation but you can expand it again if you like. </div></font></font></div></blockquote><div><CLO> Concise is Good :-) </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Arial">The survey could
be condensed further by collapsing many the yes/no questions under one
heading, but I am not sure this is wanted.</font></font></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div><CLO> you the expert here... </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Also in the final version we
would usually display each question on a separate page to avoid major
loss of data in case someone losses connection before submitting.<br></font></font></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div><CLO> that makes perfect sense to me... </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I have not mentioned costing on this one yet. I'm helping out here with
the survey structure at no obligation for payment. However generally we
would create and manage this type of survey and enter all the
translations for about $US2500 plus $200 per language assuming the
translated text is provided. However we have been doing similar jobs
for ICANN lately for $US3000 and happy to hold that fee for this one.</font></font></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div><CLO> thanks good to know (I DO like a bargain) and yes ICANN would provide any translated text....</div>
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<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Arial">If the same survey is repeated in other years with little change then
we can manage it for a much smaller fee next time. Are you happy for us
to complete the management of this one on these rates? I assume the
paying client is your US office so no GST is included. I believe our
rates for this type of multi-language project are much less than
generally available in the market. Note it's <u>important</u> not to
translate the text until we send an english version template to work
from.<br></font></font></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div><CLO> Thanks this is also good to know... I need to take the sample to the rest of the Team now (with the rough costs) we have a meeting later this week... I note when I follow the links bellow >>></div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><b></b><font color="#333333"><small><font face="Arial">Cheryl,<br><br><a href="https://www.bigpulse.com/p9837/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to see some work in progress. See how some of the questions have been condensed in a rating format. Does this work? Not all questions can fit into this style. >>></font></small></font></div>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font color="#333333"><small><font face="Arial"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:small">That I'm logged on with my BP identity how do we show the others what were proposing? Perhaps if Brian and Manal try the CLICK HERE link above, and can see the sample that is all we need but I would want to have the team "play with the sample so whatever we need to do to set that up needs to be discussed...</span></font></small></font></div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font color="#333333"><small><font face="Arial"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:small">Yes it would be US client so not GST, and you note on translations is NOTED... I suspect next steps would be fine tuning the questions from the sample to ensure the Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) feels were asking all we need to then look to next steps etc., from that... So all I can have to put onto our Agenda later this week (thus the c.c. to the Chair and Vice Chair of the ATRT as they will be setting the Agenda) the better...</span></font></small></font></div>
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<div>Thanks again... CLO </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Arial">
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