[governance] Jo-Anne Scott remembered

Fri Aug 16 15:01:15 EDT 2019

May Jo-Anne rest in peace. Amen

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 7:29 PM "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <
governance at lists.riseup.net> wrote:

> Our sincere condolences on Jo-Anne's passing and trusting she is in a
> better place. Condolences to her family and friends and the wider internet
> community who knew her. Appreciate the introduction and Eulogy on her life
> and how you met.
>
> Praying for peace for her family and you.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Sala
>
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, 7:05 pm Imran Ahmed Shah, <
> governance at lists.riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear George,
>>
>> Very sad news. Please accept my condolence, and if can pass to her family.
>>
>> Thanks and Best Regards
>>
>> Imran Ahmed Shah
>>
>> On Friday, 16 August 2019, 22:54:08 GMT+5, George Sadowsky <
>> governance at lists.riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm very sad to hear of Jo-Anne Scott's passing.  She was a good
>> colleague and a good friend.
>>
>> I first met Jo-Anne at a meeting in Palo Alto in September 1992, hosted
>> by Steve From and Scott Weikert. A few months before that, I had discussed
>> with Larry Landweber at INET'92 in Kobe the possibility of setting up a
>> training program in Internet technology and use for people from developing
>> countries. In the 1970s and 1980s, I worked for the United Nations and was
>> involved in many technology transfer programs in the area of computing, and
>> I had seen to my dismay the state of technical knowledge, education, and
>> resources in most of the countries in which I had worked. Larry suggested
>> giving it a try. Steve Fram was one of the early collaborators, and we were
>> meeting in his office in Palo Alto to do the initial planning.
>>
>> Jo-Anne  attended the meeting, I had not known her before, but her
>> enthusiasm for the project and solving logistical aspects of making it
>> happen were contagious, so we became the initial band of co-conspirators
>> for what became ISOC's network technologies training program for people
>> from developing countries.   Since INET'93  was planned  for San Francisco
>> in August 1993, we decided to hold  the training workshop in the Silicon
>> Valley just before the INET meeting, and then have the trainees participate
>> also in that meeting. We believe that the latter step was important in
>> introducing them to the people we hoped would be their future Internet
>> colleagues and would assist them in the developments in their own countries.
>>
>> At the time I was working at New York University and was not situated to
>> assist in local preparation for the workshop.  Joanne lived in Palo Alto,
>> and she believed that she could work with Stanford University to provide
>> lodging, classroom space, and meals for the trainees and trainers during
>> August 1993. She set about to do it with a vigor, enthusiasm, and
>> initiative that characterized her contributions to the workshop for the
>> next five years.. She convinced the University to provide dormitory space,
>> meal arrangements,and suitable classroom space for the entire process, and
>> she coordinated all of the preparatory work, including the  procurement,
>>  delivery, and set up for a large number of personal computers to be used
>> by the three training tracks. She also arranged for  several social events
>> in the evenings to foster a sense of professional community among the
>> attendees, as well as to meet local people who lived in the Palo Alto area.
>> I remember her setting up a fireside chat with Vint Cerf one evening, which
>> resulted in a spirited discussion of the potential of the Internet and the
>> importance of what it could provide for development.
>>
>> At the end of  INET' 93, Jo-Anne and I had dinner with the INET'94
>>  conference chair, and after  reviewing the success of our workshop, we
>> decided to do it again, a decision that was repeated  for several years
>> after that. Although it may not have been clear to the workshop
>> participants, the amount of logistical preparation  required to set up the
>> Prague workshop in 1994 was immense. Only a few years had elapsed since the
>> erosion of the iron curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and
>> Czechoslovakia was in a rapid state of change. Joanne cooperated with the
>> Czech Technical University to find space for housing in the Hotel Krystal,
>> a tram ride away from the University buildings in which staff would be
>> teaching the four tracks. The Hotel Krystal  even had a computer lab with
>> 24  computers, connected to the Internet via a low-bandwidth permanent
>>  connection. During the workshop, Jo-Anne learned that our Hotel Krystal
>> had only been a hotel for a few years and before that it had been the
>> training institute for the Czech secret police. We wondered how many
>> microphones were still installed in various parts of the building,
>> including the sleeping rooms.  Jo-Anne also discovered the "Chicago Pizza
>> House"  (not a typo!)  in an underground warren near the hotel, where we
>> went for relief several times to escape the rich Czech food offerings.
>>
>> Jo-Anne  continued to participate actively in and support the workshop
>> activities in 1995 in Honolulu, in 1996 in Montréal and in 1997 in Kuala
>> Lumpur. In 1994 she discovered the local travel agent in Palo Alto, Maria
>> Orvell, who worked with Joanne and together they became accomplished in
>>  bringing people from all parts of the world to wherever the next INET
>> meeting was going to be held.
>>
>> The process of choosing and assisting participants to attend the
>> workshops was extensive. Applications were solicited through a number of
>> channels, including disseminating information by participants in formal
>> workshops. These all came to Jo-Anne and she prepared them for evaluation
>> by a committee consisting of the teaching staff for the next workshop.
>> After that, the complex process of distributing the financial resources
>> that we were able to obtain, ascertaining the possibility of visas and
>> helping participants to obtain them (including making intercessions with
>> the host country), and making flight arrangements, and this generally had
>> to be performed individually for each participant. The logistics process
>> took a lot of time andinitiative, and Joanne was able to do it, always in
>> time to meet our deadlines.
>>
>> Jo-Anne was a true partner. She embodied the spirit of the Internet,
>> helping, sharing, supporting, and giving of herself so that others might
>> learn and  in turn share with a new with others in their country. She
>> believed strongly in the Internet's ability to help people in earlier
>> stages of development, and she gave herself fully to the task. Many
>> workshop participants saw her correctly as fundamental to the success of
>> their experience. I'm glad that she lived long enough to observe the
>> benefits of her contribution to global Internet development, but very sad
>> that she was not able to continue to do so.  She will be missed.
>>
>> George
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> George Sadowsky                                    Residence tel:
>> +1.301.968.4325
>> 8300 Burdette Road, Apt B-472                          Mobile:
>> +1.202.415.1933
>> Bethesda MD  20817-2831  USA                                    Skype:
>> sadowsky
>> george.sadowsky at gmail.com                http://www.georgesadowsky.org/
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>> To unsubscribe: <mailto:igc-unsubscribe at lists.riseup.net>
>> List help: <https://riseup.net/lists>
>> ---
>> To unsubscribe: <mailto:igc-unsubscribe at lists.riseup.net>
>> List help: <https://riseup.net/lists>
>>
> ---
> To unsubscribe: <mailto:igc-unsubscribe at lists.riseup.net>
> List help: <https://riseup.net/lists>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20190816/44c92802/attachment.htm>