[WSIS CS-Plenary] PROPOSAL to PLENARY

[Bruno SALGUES]

dear karen

i have propose to create a caucus
about arts and artists and digital arts

it is not on the list .....

bruno salgues


Selon karen banks <karenb at gn.apc.org>:

> ** would people appreciate my using babelfish to translate this **
>
> ** les gens apprécieraient-ils une traduction de babelfish de ce message ? **
>
> ** ¿la gente apreciaría una traducción del babelfish de este mensaje? **
>
> dear all
>
> The updated version of the caucuses/working group webpage is online at:
> http://www.wsis-cs.org/caucuses.html
>
> I have made several changes, but i know that there are still inaccuracies.
> I leave it to all caucus/working group focal points to alert me if there
> are corrections still to be made. Please do keep sending information about
> WSIS resources (websites, blogs and wikis etc)
>
> Some of the messages indicated that people find it very difficult to follow
> Civil Society work in WSIS on the plenary list. This is very true and i'm
> sure not a suprise. It is particularly difficult if you are relying soley
> on the WSIS lists to understand what is happening, you don't attend face to
> face meetings, and you don't speak english.
>
> To this end, i would like to request that the working methods group draft
> some simple guidelines for how we use the CT and Plenary spaces. They don't
> have to be complex, but if we all agree to them, it will make life a lot
> easier for many.
>
> This is fairly standard procedure for the use of any online lists -
> particularly in the absence of facilitation.
>
> It might be interesting to take a snapshot of the use of plenary in 2005.
>
> subscribers
> - the list has about 500 subscribers
>
> messages and authors
> - 968 messages were posted in Jan/Feb of 2005
> [306 of these were posted during the 2 weeks of prepcom]
> - 150 different authors posted to plenary
> -  80 different authors posted only 1 message
> -  70 different authors posted between 2 (lowest) and 65 (Highest) messages
> - 350 subscribers didn't post at all (obviously - if my maths still works)
>
> language
> - about 95% of those posts are in english
> - about 5 authors post in french
> - the occasional bulletin is posted in 3 languages (eng/fr/sp)
>
> content
> - a large number of messages are cross-posted to at least 3 WSIS lists,
> somtimes up to 5 lists (we are using up a lot of bandwidth ;)
> - many postings are not directly related to WSIS
> - many of us are a bit lazy when replying to messages and ** don't remove
> unnecessary text **
>
> Size
> - almost 1/3 of the messages are over 3 screens
> - about 1/5 are as many as 5 screens
> - many messages are formatted, or in HTML - making them unnecessarily large
>
> subject lines
> - are not too bad - but we could try to implement some guidelines on
> ensuring our messages have clear subject lines, This makes following
> particular threads (especially historically) much easier.
> ---->
>
> Dealing with some of the above could be very simple, and make life a lot
> easier for the majority of plenary subscribers who are silently following,
> or too put off by the noise and volume to parricipate.
>
> Dealing with other issues is not so simple - the question of language of
> course being the most pressing. But even there, we developed some good
> methodologies during phase I and we could try to re-implement them.
>
> I am happy to spend some time in the working methods group on the above if
> there is interest.
>
> karen
>
>
>
>
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