<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Mikey,<br/><br/>I really wanted to participate but finally could not make it, so all of this is very useful and I will be reading and listening to the recordings and offering feedback to help improve the pilot.<br/><br/>Not so long ago I was a newcomer at a gnso working group so I hope to be able to offer insights from a personal experience viewpoint.<br/><br/>Also, I know other people that intended to participate and will ask for their feedback and share if it is valuable.<br/><br/>Congratulatios to all who organized this! <br/><br/>Gabi<br/><div>Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Movistar (http://www.movistar.com.ar)</div><hr/><div><b>From: </b> "Mike O'Connor" <mike@haven2.com>
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</div><div><b>Date: </b>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:05:27 -0600</div><div><b>To: </b>ispcp@icann.org<ispcp@icann.org>; council@gnso.icann.org GNSO<council@gnso.icann.org></div><div><b>Subject: </b>[council] Newcomer Open House -- transcripts of the pilot session that took place yesterday</div><div><br/></div><div apple-content-edited="true">hi all,</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">i built a little web page on our site to introduce links to small, bite-sized pieces of the newcomer open house pilot that took place yesterday. it met with good reaction from the people who participated, but it was a pilot and we're looking for ideas on how to improve it. the whole thing is about an hour, but it's broken into small pieces so that people can select what they'd like to look at. </div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">thanks to Nathalie Perigrine for coming up with and driving the idea. and Marika, Lars and Glen for making it happen. i was/am honored to have been asked to be the presenter.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">mikey</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">here's a link to the page (good for sharing with friends and colleagues)</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.ispcp.info/policy-resources/gnso-working-groups-newcomer-open-house/">http://www.ispcp.info/policy-resources/gnso-working-groups-newcomer-open-house/</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">and here's the content on that page (as long as i have your attention)</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><h1 class="entry-title">GNSO Working Groups — Newcomer Open House</h1>
<div class="entry-content"><p>ISPCP member Mikey O’Connor moderated a pilot session of a
webinar intended to provide orientation, information and resources to
members of the GNSO community who are joining a GNSO PDP Working Group
for the first time.</p><p>Here’s a link to the slide deck that was presented — this PDF
contains a wealth of links to written resources for working-group
participants.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://www.ispcp.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Newcomers-Open-House-Final-reduced.pdf">Newcomers Open House.pdf</a></p><p>Here are links to recordings of the session.</p><p><strong>Introduction, Tips and Tricks, Session Goals and Overview, Resources</strong></p><p>In which you will; experience how we start up every working-group
call, get an introduction to some tips and tricks of the Adobe room that
we use, be introduced to the ICANN policy staff, get an overview of
goals and topics of the session and get your first set of helpful links.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p29xh8ldqb4/">https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p29xh8ldqb4/ </a> (20 minutes)</p><p><strong>Consensus Policy and the “Picket Fence”</strong></p><p>This is a discussion of the relationship between the GNSO consensus
policy-making process and the contracts that bind Registries, Registrars
and ICANN together.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"> <a href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p6f5tyvjmma/">https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p6f5tyvjmma/</a> (7 minutes)</p><p><strong>The GNSO Policy Development Process</strong></p><p>An overview of the whole Policy Development Process (PDP). This
section quickly introduces you to all of the steps of the PDP;
requesting an Issue Report, launching a Working Group, moving that work
through the approval process, implementation into policy.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p64j05q58kx/">https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p64j05q58kx/</a> (11 minutes) – Presentation</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p9fzftl3rar/">https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p9fzftl3rar/</a> (12 minutes) – Questions and Answers</p><p><strong>PDP Working Group Guidelines</strong></p><p>A brief introduction to the documentation that describes the PDP work
processes, rules and responsibilities. Special attention is paid to a
discussion of the Standard Methodology for Making Decisions (also known
as the level of consensus).</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p8qtevealwa/">https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p8qtevealwa/</a> (7 minutes)</p><p><strong>Question and Answer Session</strong></p><p>A brief Q&A session that focused on the social media aspects of working groups.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p2lml89ip4g/">https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p2lml89ip4g/</a> (3 minutes)</p></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">PHONE: 651-647-6109, FAX: 866-280-2356, WEB: <a href="http://www.haven2.com">www.haven2.com</a>, HANDLE: OConnorStP (ID for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)</span>
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