AW: [Gov 649] Re: [governance] European IGF meeting

[jefsey]

At 16:05 12/04/2009, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
>JFC:
>Right now the priority, IMHO is to make the Internet governance, 
>adminance and rights a european election campaign citizen issue. 
>Every help/cooperation to that end are welcome.
>
>Wolfgang:
>This is a great proposal. How we can do this? Should we try to 
>identify candidates who could be pushing this forward in case they 
>are elected?

I propose to create citizen at euro-igf.eu lists per languages (i.e. 
citoyens at euro-fgi.eu en français, etc.) and to create a wiki with a 
page available to every list of candidates. When they register they 
can introduce themselves, and then develop their positions in using 
their own page.

Then every list of candidate or candidate (depending on the country 
system I presume?) will have to explain its/her position in response 
to our/user questions. We set-up a small team per country to manage
- find the mail addresses
- send them mails
- manage the national wiki page
it becomes a local Euro-IGF secretariat with the national mailing 
lists. As long as the person/team want to be neutral, professionnal 
and serve (and not to decide) his/its country internet policy and 
development, it is OK.

So after the election we can use the Euro-IGF either as a true 
on-line Euro-IGF, or as a lobbying tool towards a real euro-IGF 
meeting. Also, we will have an interface in every european political 
parties. The need is a fine trustable person for each country. I can 
register a non-profit non-political secretariat membership limited to 
active helpers forming the BoD (one per country is necessary and 
enough + adminstrative editor, operations support, moderator and 
treasurer [31 members]), to admin the project. I can have one or two 
part time French persons to help. Such a thing to work must be very 
very mechanic. Taking no position. But asking good questions they may 
collect from the users.

I am building a non-profit wikifarm on a dedicated Linux server. If 
somebody could help me (MySQL, Mediawiki, some extensions, mailman, 
some statistic tools, etc.) we can have something by the end of the week.

>I also agree with you other points related to CS. Probably we could 
>linke a EURALO event to EURODIG. Question is funding ;-((((-

Which funding? We are not interested in spending but in acting people.

If france at large do things for 8 years and INTLNET for 31 it is 
because we have no money (no banking account). So we do not need to 
pay banks, accountants, etc. And we are FREE ! As a result - we have 
not been accepted as an ALS, we are not Euralo members, and we did 
not come in the Mexico ICANN atlarge incentive vacations.

The recipe is to have people motivated who see enough of action 
return on their time investment to accept to pay for one or two 
european trips to meeting starting after the arrival of the morning 
train in well located places with low fare/hitch-hiking transportation.

If/when the things works the non-profit will manage the relations 
with sponsors and T&L for real support.
Best.
jfc



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