[CS Bureau] Further to my earlier message...

[Robert Guerra]

I'd like to follow-up some of the points I raised in my posting last week.


Ongoing issues that i'm keen about -

* Virtual Participation

The type of virtual options include, but are not limited to the following:

* Teleconference
* Online chat - using instant messaging (IM) , IRC or another media
* Virtual meeting - I don't know what the options are, for me Derrick 
is the expert on this one and ask that he tell us what's possible.


* Preparations for PrepCom 2 -

- Status of ongoing discussions:

(a) Public Voice teleconference - held  last week. Renate sent her 
regrets, leaving Sean, Ramin, Viola and myself as the only bureau 
participants. I was expecting Adina to participate on the call, as it 
would have been good for her to introduce herself and give a quick 
update as to what she's doing. I would hope she can participate in 
future calls.

(b) European & North America Caucus - I've posted a message to 
related mailing lists as well as  to my WSIS blog to the effect that 
we need to start planning in a collaborative and open fashion.I've 
posted a # of items that  , at this moment, i think are important to 
start planning for. A few people have sent comments which i'll post 
later this week when I have some time.

Ref: 
http://www.privaterra.org/activities/wsis/blog/preparing_for_prepcom_2__bis_.html

(c) Geneva level preparations - Thanks for the accommodation list , 
the updates related to the recent meetings and status of the 
cybercafe and internet request Francis raised earlier.

i've been asked by several people in my caucus about the process of 
reserving meeting rooms both at PC2 as well as the summit in Nov. if 
an online reservation/request system could help - do let me know as I 
can very easy install something like this.

* Online Resources -

it would be , i think, very good to have a set of online tools to 
help us plan and organize for the upcoming meetings. Setting up a 
site takes time, so - ideally - it would need to be done before the 
prepcom ...

(a) website - no updates nor news have been posted. Again, i would 
like to state that i would be more than happy to host a website and 
other free and open source planning and project management resources 
for the CS bureau at the following domain name - www.wsis-csb.org

As well, i can provide mailing aliases for the bureau members so that 
we all can have @wsis-csb.org addresses. The addresses would in turn 
be forwarded to whatever email address you actually have.

A mock-up of what the site could look like is here - 
http://www.wsis-csb.org . It is using a genuine, 100% Free and open 
source system. if others can offer the same - please do mention it.

(b) Blogs & Wiki's -  Andy Carvin is keen to move forward on this and 
has offered space on the DDN network to make it happen.

He's trying to find funding, for developers  to put together a news 
aggregation site, and a set of bloggers to report on the summit 
activities. This would be great !

* Funding for PrepCom 2

Is there any news on new sources of funding that may have been found 
to allow CS to be able to attend and participate at the prepcom ?

I ask this, as the CRIS Campaign has announced some funding - 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/611/ If they can find 
funding, perhaps the folks in Geneva can as well? Having the CSB 
fundraise not only for itself, but more importantly for CS as a whole 
would be very, very appreciated by our CS collegues.


* Bureau methods & communications....

Sigh. Has anyone responded to Adam's message from a few weeks back? 
It is frustrating to have us start discussion on important topics and 
then just leave them hanging.

Issues of the CSB's legitimacy are made by Sean and others and we 
seriously try to answer their concerns.  To not do so will only lead 
to further criticisms...



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Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>