[Chapter-delegates] Please welcome ISOC Chapters

[Lynn St.Amour]

Thanks very much Alejandro,  these are good suggestions.   Our new 
Commmunications Director - Mark Thalhimer and I have had discussions 
re developing a plan for making our materials (and of course our web 
site) multi-lingual.   We are working to bring Mark up to speed on a 
number of requirements and I'm sure he will be reaching out to you 
and others for more suggestions and support.  Peter Godwin has also 
been involved and we are thinking about following a Wikipedia like 
model for development.

All suggestions/contributions very welcome.

Regards,
Lynn

At 7:38 PM +0000 2/18/07, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
>Lynn,
>
>I've been late in joining this collective welcome and do so heartily.
>
>As to "what we can do" I have an immediate suggestion, especially 
>given the recent addition of chapters from countries who have in 
>common the use of the French language besides, of course, much older 
>local languages.
>
>This would be to organize the development and publication of 
>educational and outreach materials in French, in close cooperation 
>with the Francophone chapters and their leaderships. The cooperation 
>is needed to:
>
>1. define what materials are needed and do not exist, or exist but 
>are out of date;
>
>2. translate those materials which already exist in other languages 
>and are useful "as is" except for language;
>
>3. create collectively a work program to write, review, and publish 
>the materials that are found missing;
>
>4. determine if there is a need for funding this effort, with funds 
>from the chapters that have materials and funds; other agencies such 
>as Francophonie, development-oriented agencies, etc.; and ISOC 
>itself;
>
>5. determine if some of the effort can be done collaboratively with 
>such instances as the IETF, some of the RIRs/NRO, the organizers of 
>the NTW and WALC, ICANN, and the companies and universities to which 
>many of us belong.
>
>To put a "who" into this list of "what", "when", "how", and "with 
>what resources", does it seem feasible that ISOC Chapters Management 
>in HQ convene a small force of willing people?
>
>Count me in, by the way, and feel free to look at the resources 
>(mostly in Spanish) my University in Mexico, and chapter members, 
>develop.
>
>Yours,
>
>Alejandro Pisanty
>
>
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>On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Lynn St.Amour wrote:
>
>>Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:51:01 +0100
>>From: Lynn St.Amour <st.amour at isoc.org>
>>To: eduard.tric at isoc.ro, Elena Zvarici <elena.zvarici at isoc.ro>,
>>     didier <didier at jobantech.cd>,
>>     Didier Rukeratabaro Kasole <dkasole at gmail.com>,
>>     Victor Ciza <victor at cbinet.bi>, phil at cnsi-congo.org
>>Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
>>Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Please welcome ISOC Chapters
>>
>>I just returned from a few days out of the office and was very
>>pleased to see the announcements of all the new chapters.
>>
>>Please accept my sincere and warmest congratulations and welcome to
>>all the recently approved chapters:
>>
>>- Internet Society Romania (ISOC RO) led by Eduard Tric and his colleagues
>>
>>- Internet Society Burundi (ISOC BI) led by Victor Ciza and his
>>colleagues
>>
>>- Internet Society Democratic Republic of Congo (ISOC CD) led by
>>Didier Rukeratabaro Kasole and his colleagues
>>
>>- Internet Society Republic of Congo (ISOC CG) led by Jean
>>Philemon Kissangou and his colleagues
>>
>>
>>Thank you to all those who made this happen and to all the members
>>(old and new) who keep ISOC growing.    These are exciting times for
>>ISOC and we appreciate all your efforts and all your support.
>>
>>Let us know if we can be of any help in your efforts.
>>
>>Warm regards,
>>
>>Lynn
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>>Internet Society
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