[council] Meetings transscripts

[Alan Greenberg]

Two thoughts on this:

1. I agree that we are custodians of the funds. 
As such, it would be quite useful for us to know 
approximately what it costs to create a transcript of a typical 2-hour meeting.

2. The MP3 would be (almost) infinitely easier to 
use if the minutes included a notation of the 
actual time each agenda item discussion started 
as well as the time that the recording started. 
Then one could home in on the correct section 
immediately. Even better if the agenda were 
updated after the fact to include this, so one 
would not need to wait for the minutes to be 
posted. The cost of doing this would be relatively low.

Alan

At 21/11/2011 07:30 AM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
>Thanks Wolf.
>
>This question has already come up several times 
>in the past. I will let Staff answer this but I 
>believe there are good budgetary reasons for not transcripting every meeting.
>
>I would add that we, as a Council, are also 
>custodians of ICANN community funds, just like 
>anyone else in this community. My personal 
>opinion is that if there are services available 
>that offer sufficient flexibility to follow 
>meetings (and I think having an mp3, minutes and 
>a live audio feed is pretty good), we may want 
>to think twice about asking for new things that 
>may be costly to implement (I don't know if 
>that's the case with this specific request).
>
>Of course, if there is a clear need, we should 
>look at that. So once again, Staff is probably 
>best suited to provide you with background and a response on this.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stéphane
>
>
>
>Le 21 nov. 2011 à 11:34, 
><<mailto:KnobenW at telekom.de>KnobenW at telekom.de> 
><<mailto:KnobenW at telekom.de>KnobenW at telekom.de> a écrit :
>
>>All,
>>
>>A question came up whether transscripts are 
>>provided for the council meetings. I was of the 
>>opinion that's the case. But the Master 
>>calender on the publicly accessible GNSO 
>>webpage only shows transscripts from the ICANN 
>>public meetings. For the teleconference calls minutes and mp3s are provided.
>>
>>Transscripts seem easier to be handled for 
>>searching specific items discussed at meetings, 
>>and there is definitely a need for this.
>>
>>I'd like to bring this up for discussion as 
>>well as finding a council opinion on this.
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Wolf-Ulrich
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