[governance] Jo-Anne Scott remembered
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Fri Aug 16 15:42:52 EDT 2019
Dear George,
I am very sad to hear of Jo-Anne Scott's passing. Please accept my
Condolence and praying for peace for her family and friends.
Le ven. 16 août 2019 à 21:30, Remmy Nweke <governance at lists.riseup.net> a
écrit :
> 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
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>>>
>>>
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