[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: [Onewebday] OneWebDay teleconference

[Anne Lord]

Dear Colleagues,

I thought this might also be of interest to the wider audience so am  
reposting here. Susan Crawford and the 'OneWebDay' team are having a  
call today Wednesday July 2nd, UTC 23.00. You are invited to join  
this call (and the 'onewebday' mailing list where all future  
announcements will be posted) if you are interested in participating  
in 'OneWebDay' activities.

Best wishes,
Anne


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Susan Crawford" <scrawford at scrawford.net>
> Date: 2 July 2008 7:49:31 PM
> To: <onewebday at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: [Onewebday] OneWebDay status
>
> Dear all,
>
> For those of you in and around New York City, or available to call  
> in, we
> will be having a meeting *tonight*, Wednesday, July 2, at 7pm.
>
> Where:  Adobe (8 W. 40th, 16th floor).
>
> Call-in information:
>
>  877 220 5439
>
>  code 113 907#
>
> The phone situation is now very good, thanks to Kaarli Tasso, so if  
> you've
> had trouble listening in the past it should be better this time.
>
> Here's the current status:
>
> 1.  Ambassadors.  Thanks to Matthew Cooperrider, Brian Reich, and  
> Allison
> Fine, we're signing up people to write about/talk about OWD each  
> day from
> now until Sept. 22.  Things are going quite well.  Please consider  
> being an
> ambassador yourself, so that we fill in all empty dates.  Contact  
> me at
> scrawford at scrawford.net or Matt, mattcooperrider at gmail, for  
> information
> about what to say to potential ambassadors and available dates.   
> Thanks to
> Heather Greenfield for offering to help with the ambassadors  
> program.  Take
> a look at onewebday.org - quite exciting.
>
> 2.  Worldwide.  We now have leadership in Denmark (Morten Kamper  
> and Merethe
> Ekhardt), with thanks to David Weinberger for making a personal  
> pitch.  We
> also have leadership in Australia (Rick Barrett, in Perth, as well as
> ISOC-Australia), New Zealand (Alan Meredith), and Tunisia (Khaled  
> Koubaa).
> I have a feeling the UK will be a success this year, given Phil  
> Hawksworth's
> interest; I'm also very grateful for Kevin Marks's introduction to Tom
> Steinberg of theyworkforyou.org.  Desiree Miloshevic, in Serbia/ 
> Montenegro,
> and other places, is helping OWD enormously.  The Berkman Center,  
> always a
> strong supporter, is getting more ambitious this year, and seems to  
> have a
> number of interns to call on. Veni Markovski continues to be very  
> helpful,
> and introduced me this year to the operators of .ru, the Russian  
> country
> code, who seemed quite interested.  Daniel Dardailler of W3C will  
> be helping
> organize a W3C presence this year.
>
> 3.  In the last couple of weeks, I've had the opportunity to do OWD
> presentations at Supernova (thanks to Kevin Werbach) and for the ISOC
> chapters meeting in Paris (thanks to Anne Lord).
>
> 4.  Skype may be interested in a substantial partnership this year  
> of some
> kind.  We're planning to talk on July 7.
>
> 5.  Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, of Chennai, India, is working on a  
> "stories"
> program that is somewhat parallel to the ambassadors program, but  
> separate.
> The link to the Stories page is http://onewebday.org/stories/.   
> Thanks to
> Joly MacFie for helping set this up.  The idea is to get bloggers  
> to write
> about how the web has changed their lives, and I urge you to get
> involved/tell people about it.
>
> 6.  Thanks to Nathaniel James and others connected to the Media &  
> Democracy
> Coalition, OWD is being introduced to lots of US groups and  
> communities.  I
> am particularly grateful for April Pedersen's interest (of  
> Democracy In
> Action).
>
> 7.  In the US, I wanted to celebrate the fact that it looks as if  
> we will
> have critical mass in Portland, OR (thanks to Ray King and Mary  
> Beth Henry)
> as well as Austin, DC, Chicago, SF, and NYC.
>
> For the next three months, the goal is to keep the news spreading  
> out and
> help people become quite specific about events they will be holding  
> - and
> have those events be visible via the OWD wiki.  To "register" an  
> event, go
> to http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/OneWebDay_in_a_box .   
> We'd like
> these events to *actually* be visible via video on Sept. 22.  That's a
> challenge.
>
> Thanks again for all of your interest and help.
>
> Susan
>  cell 202 669 0430
>
>
>
>
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