<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I may have omitted to mention on this list that with a bit of funding that I hope to confirm soon, IDEC (Brazilian consumer group) and Consumers International are proposing to host a Best Bits pre-meeting in São Paulo as a preparatory event for the Brazil meeting. So we aim to have more news on this early in the new year.<br><br>-- <div>Jeremy Malcolm PhD LLB (Hons) B Com</div><div>Internet and Open Source lawyer, consumer advocate, geek </div><div>host -t NAPTR 5.9.8.5.2.8.2.2.1.0.6.<a href="http://e164.org">e164.org</a>|awk -F! '{print $3}'</div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><b>WARNING</b></font>: This email has not been encrypted. You are strongly recommended to enable PGP or S/MIME encryption at your end. For instructions, see <a href="http://jere.my/l/8m" title="https://luxsci.com/blog/installing-smime-and-pgp-encryption-certificates-into-major-email-clients.html" rel="nofollow external">http://jere.my/l/8m</a>.</span></p><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br>On 29 Dec 2013, at 1:21 pm, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <<a href="mailto:pouzin@well.com">pouzin@well.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>+ 1</b><br><br>Deirdre's suggestion must be of interest to a sizable part of the CS. Many meetings of that ilk are held at local or national level. It would require more resources to reach an audience on a larger scale. A typical way to get started at minimum cost is a workshop organized by invitation as a rider in a well attended international conference where CS people are expected to flock together.<br>
<br>Btw, São Paulo could be just that kind of opportunity. A critical size of CS people should show up, with an excellent organizational capacity. One might assume that a few meeting rooms would be made available by the local hosts.<br>
<br>What do you think ?<br><br>Louis<br>- - -<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Deirdre Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I agree with Jeanette.<div>I would even go a little further.</div><div>Why don't "we" - civil society - have a "meeting" too?</div>
<div>I know we don't have funds to take people to Brazil or London or wherever, but we do have the Internet which we keep advocating as a potential solution to that type of challenge. </div>
<div>We could stipulate a time (say the third week in January - from 19th). We must have someone - techier than I am - who can create a space?? We could publish a list of issues - which could be added to - and the conclusions reached so far by the people who have been considering those issues up to now. We could invite everyone who would like to come and participate. </div>
<div>We could spend the selected week in intensive discussion to tease out a summary of our collective approach to the issues under discussion to give to whoever will finally "represent" us at these other meetings. If we find we can't agree we should at least have a clear idea of where we differ. </div>
<div>Deirdre</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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