[governance] Caucus meeting in Athens

[Adam Peake]

At 10:27 AM +0200 10/17/06, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>Adam Peake ha scritto:
>>Whoever considers themselves coordinators, get coordinating please :-)
>
>You know, that might be an empty set! :-) Anyway, I would suggest 
>that, if possible, we keep the two things parted.
>
>One might be a short and small coordination meeting among the 
>current caucus members, where we discuss practical issues such as 
>the election process (and candidates, if you like) and a possible 
>process statement to be given afterwards in the plenary (which 
>should, anyway, be first drafted and discussed on list).


OK.  Good suggestion -- as were Parminder and Avri's follow-ups.  I 
hope the caucus can produce a statement.  Following the charter, etc.


>Another one might be a short but broader informational meeting, open 
>to everyone in a big room, aimed at informing all civil society and 
>individual participants of the opportunity to participate through 
>us. We could just come up with a set of slides about what we did and 
>how you can join, and do outreach. It could actually turn into a 
>sort of "introduction to new participants to this process", a bit 
>like ICANN's introduction at the beginning, and so it could actually 
>be a service to the entire Forum. But then, this would require a big 
>room on the first day, and I don't know whether that's feasible.


Yes.  It is feasible, that's the question I was asking, what size 
room would we like :-)

We can go for 50 as Bill suggests, or a more formalized agenda as 
Avri posted.  I agree with Avri and would go for the more structured 
event and I agree with the rough agenda she drafted.

So I suggest we ask for one of the workshop rooms, options:

- Plato: 220, classroom-type seating arrangements,
- Kleoniki: 150, mixed classroom/theatre - type seating arrangements,
- Aphrodite: 100, mixed classroom/theatre - type seating arrangements.

We can ask to have the meeting announced during the morning opening 
session.  I can ask the secretariat if it would be possible to 
include in any printed agenda (I guess there must be time...)

Avri's agenda, looks good to me:


At 9:43 AM +0200 10/17/06, Avri Doria wrote:
>
>- a panel of the CS MAGites addressing issues about the IGF: why it 
>is organized the way it is and what they expect to come out of it.
>
>- a moderated discussion on what the attendees expect to come out of it
>
>- a sequence of short (5 min) presentations on directions the IGC 
>could take over the next year.
>
>- i am sure there are other ideas
>
>I am assuming that we are going for a 90 minute slot.  If so,
>
>Then I would recommend dedicating no more the 30 minutes to the WSIS 
>review and Charter etc, leaving an hour for 1 or 2 other discussions 
>of 30 minutes each.
>


So we'd start at 1:30, finish at 3.   Would someone like to tidy up the agenda.

If we can agree quickly then the meeting could be listed on the 
related activities page <http://www.intgovforum.org/IGF_Platform.php>

(back to quoting VB)


>On the other hand, the other, "internal" meeting could be moved out 
>of the critical path, for example at dinner or just before it, after 
>the Forum ends for the first day.


Makes sense to me.


>>Other things going on during lunch will be the new informal plaza (and food.)
>
>And don't forget about food... people less crazy than us tend to put 
>it as a high priority item :-)


The local hosts have promised there will be a range of sandwich type 
foods we can buy.  There had better be, on other days people are 
holding workshops over the lunch period.

Adam


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