[Chapter-delegates] OneWebDay and Drumbeat

[Joly MacFie]

Hi Maureen,

OneWebDay is essentially it. Not so much a celebration of the founding
as much as, based on Earth Day, an environmental awareness event .

I would refer you to founder Susan Crawford's introduction to  the
2008 event: http://punkcast.com/1431

joly

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Maureen Hilyard <hilyard at oyster.net.ck> wrote:
> Hi there
>
>
>
> A query: Is there a World Internet Day? or some other international
> celebration of the founding of the internet?
>
>
>
> Maureen
>
> PICISOC
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>
> From: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
> [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 2010 11:56 p.m.
> To: Joly MacFie
> Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org; Susan Crawford
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] OneWebDay and Drumbeat
>
>
>
> Hello Joly, Olivier
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
> I'll say in it's defense that drumbeat is not a 'militant civil
> society organisation' by any means, it's a worthy effort with much of
> the same aims as ISOC, and which we should make every effort to
> support it. It is very young, and still unfocused, but it could well
> be a valuable partner in Community Projects.  But just because it's
> the pre-occupation of the current Chairman, and former Executive
> Director, of OWD is no reason that OWD should be consigned to the
> scrapheap.
>
> What is the nature of agreement (if any) between OWD and Drumbeat ?  If OWD
> is folded into Drumbeat, is there any merger agreement that would legally
> prevent OneWebDay from continuing on its own?
>
>
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> If there is no such legal arrangement, from Chapters we can team up and
> carry it forward along its ORIGINAL plans.
>
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>
> You mentioned that there was a suggestion to rename it OneNetDay, if
> renaming is desirable, why not "Internet Day?"
>
>
>
> Isoc provided initial funds. Now if Chapters are to 'inherit' OWD, it may
> not be a bad idea to apply for a joint community grant. + We can think of
> funds from Ford, Word Press and brainstorm for more donors. We can also make
> some joint efforts such as a fresh social networking portel, co-developed
> collaboratively with participation from those who are good at web
> development.
>
>
>
> ( I am setting up a small Web Development division, which will have skillful
> resources to be committed to such an exercise.
>  http://www.isolatednetworks.com ) At Chennai we have a few more members who
> are talented in WebDevelopment who can team up with you and others from
> elsewhere to get OWD re-launched on a more impressive scale.
>
>
>
> Shiva.
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>
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>
>
>
> A very attractive OWD sponsor could be the WordPress Foundation, who
> just scored $28,000 off the the recent WordCamp NYC
> http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/2010/01/23/show-me-the-money/
>
> They could sponsor a full-on multi-user buddypress development for
> OneWebDay.
>
> One suggestion punted out is that we just ignore the old organization
> and work on OneNetDay - that would keep the techie quibblers quiet
> too!
>
> joly
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 07/04/2010 09:53, Joly MacFie a écrit :
>>
>> [...]
>>> So what it appears now is that the even the purveyors of the
>>> year-round concept have realized that it's an ill fit for OneWebDay
>>> and, with more Ford Foundation $$ evidently not forthcoming, and Susan
>>> Crawford still recovering from her year in the White House, OneWebDay
>>> is for the dumper.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> [...]
>>> Comments?
>>>
>>
>> Year round project is way too much work, and way too diluted, to be
>> effective, IMHO.
>> I wonder whether OWD is something which ISOC could help in finding
>> sponsors for?
>> I loved the concept of OWD, but if it's to metamorphose it into another
>> militant civil society organisation, well... there are already plenty of
>> these around.
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>> --
>> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
>> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
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