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Re: [CNSIG-Council] Fwd: 2018 ISOC African Chapters' Advocacy Meeting: Invitation to apply for Travel Fellowship.

by John Dada

My apologies for the long silence from my end. I think I have now turned the corner and sorted out the various distractions I have. I shall be happy to represent CNSIG at the Advocacy meeting, along with Sol, if there is any chance of a funding for the travel On 2 May 2018, at 16:08, Sol Luca de Tena <sol(a)zenzeleni.net> wrote: Hi all, I'm following up on this email thread. In short I agree that the SIG should be represented in the African Chapter meeting and that I would be very happy to represent. I have followed up with John Dada who is also keen to attend. However, we have missed the application for fellowships - I am following up with ISOC to see if we can apply by tonight. I will apply and try include John Dada too...or if anyone has any other ideas on trying to get 2 people on fellowships please speak up! This relates to my other point about connecting to other CNs in Africa - and figuring out overlaps with Chapters. If I go to the meeting I will try clarify this, and make a proposal to the council for adding more African CNs. Will let you know if we manage to get to the meeting, Cheers, Sol 2018-04-23 16:15 GMT+02:00 Sol Luca de Tena <sol(a)zenzeleni.net>: Hello, Thanks Nico for sharing this. I appreciate being put forward, and would be interested, but I do want to give the opportunity to others too. John Dada of Fantsuam is also based in the continent. This thread is a good opportunity for me to share some thoughts on CNs based in Africa. Some of you may know that one of the Zenzeleni founders, Carlos Rey-Moreno, was involved for the last two years in creating the African Summit in CNs, under the auspices of ISOC, and APC. This is the 3rd year and Zenzeleni is hosting it in South Africa (info to be shared soon when all logistics sorted). Through this group I have come into contact with a number of amazing CN initiatives. Some, or all of them are part of the national or regional ISOC Chapters. I think these CNs should be able to participate in the CNSIG and would like to extend the invitation. On the other hand I think we should also take on the task of looking at the Chapters and figuring out which are most aligned to us, and what are the synergies and differences between them and us. Maybe this Advocacy meeting is a good place to look into this in our continent at least. So, in summary: 1. John Dada are you going to the 2018 ISOC African Chapters' Advocacy Meeting? If you are I would love to join and meet you. If you are not going, would you be interested in representing the CNSIG? We can discuss pros and cons of either of us representing. 2. Do any of you have any thoughts on reaching out to African CNs? 3. A bit related/unrelated - we have the role of "trusted advisors" in the CNSIG, I would like to propose Carlos Rey-Moreno as a trusted advisor. He coordinates the CN project in APC, is an experiences CN implementor, works around the world on Advocacy for CNs ...I think most of you know him. I bring it out now because I think it would help to align our work well in distinction to other groups' work on CNs. Cheers, Sol 2018-04-18 21:59 GMT+02:00 Nicolás Echániz <nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net>: Hi all, I'm forwarding this invitation so we can discuss our participation. I'm thinking Sol or someone else based in Africa could be a good initial candidate... but of course that depends on the will and availability of our members based in the region. cheers, NicoEchániz -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: 2018 ISOC African Chapters' Advocacy Meeting: Invitation to apply for Travel Fellowship. Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:40:35 +0000 From: Victor Ndonnang Dear Leaders of ISOC Community Networks SIG, Congratulations! Your SIG is eligible to send a representation to the 2018 African Chapters’ Advocacy Meeting <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/2018-african-chapters-advocacy-meeti…>. As announced recently, the 2018 African Chapters’ Advocacy Meeting <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/2018-african-chapters-advocacy-meeti…> *will take place on 19-21 June 2018 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.* As you know, the Chapter’s advocacy meeting is an opportunity is to discuss key Internet issues <https://www.internetsociety.org/key-issues/> and empower our chapters/SIG to advocate at the local and regional level. The focus of this year’s meeting will be Community Networks <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/> and how the ISOC’s new campaign model (see 2018 action plan <https://www.internetsociety.org/action-plan/2018/>) will manifest in terms of local and regional activities. The meeting will happen alongside the Community Networks Workshop organized by ISOC and hosted by the African Union Commission. This will offer the attendees the opportunity to participate in the Community Networks Workshop on 19 and 20 June 2018. The Internet Society will be able to offer on competitive basis a travel fellowship to one (1) representative from your Chapter/SIG to participate in this meeting. All interested candidates (chapter/SIG leader or member) *must complete the below fellowship application form <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/2018-african-chapters-advocacy-meeti…> by 30 April 2018.* https://www.internetsociety.org/events/2018-african-chapters-advocacy-meeti… All applicants should be: * A member of the Internet Society. * An active leader or member of an Internet Society Chapter (*) in Africa or SIG. * Able to present a strong motivation for attending the African Chapters’ Advocacy Meeting. * Able to demonstrate ability to advocate for ISOC’s goals and positions. * Able to present strong evidence of expertise or current work/project on Community Networks <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/> and other ISOC’s 2018 Campaigns key issues (Internet Governance <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-governance/>, Internet of Things (IoT), <https://www.internetsociety.org/iot/> and MANRS <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/manrs/>). * Able to present evidence of involvement in advocacy work on Internet issues The applicant will be selected based on the following criteria: · Has Provided references of a completed, ongoing or planned local activity around Community Networks · Has provided a clear plan of what he/she will do at the local level after attending the meeting · Has participated in at least one recent quarterly African Chapters calls including Q1 2018. · Have a valid passport and available to travel during the meeting period. */We encourage you to invite good candidates outside your chapter/SIG leadership (active chapter/SIG members) to apply as well. Please note that priority will be given to good candidates who are chapter/SIG leaders. /* If your Chapter/SIG wishes to send additional delegates, then these cannot be covered by ISOC funds, but you are free to do so at your own expense. However, we’d also need those “self-sponsored” candidates to complete this application form as well. Please make sure that all candidates to represent your chapter/SIG at this 2018 African chapters Advocacy Meeting complete the fellowship application form by 30 April 2018 <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/2018-african-chapters-advocacy-meeti…>in order to give us more time to work applications review and the logistics. Your SIG has been pre-selected to receive this fellowship application form based on its grade on the January 2018 performance evaluation report and its interest which Community Networks. Feel free to contact me if you have any question or need clarification on this travel fellowship application process. We look forward to hearing from you. Good luck to all the applicants for your SIG. Best regards, Victor. /PS. We are OK if you decide to discuss internally and select the best candidate to apply for this travel fellowship. If the candidate is based in Africa, that will be ideal. / -- Victor Ndonnang /Chapter Development Manager, Africa/ *Internet Society* /The Internet is for Everyone/ https://www.internetsociety.org <https://www.internetsociety.org/> The future of the Internet is ours to shape for the next generation. Check the Internet Society 2018 Action Plan at: https://www.internetsociety.org/action-plan/2018/ - #ShapeTomorrow _______________________________________________ Council mailing list Council(a)lists.cnsig.info https://lists.cnsig.info/mailman/listinfo/council -- Sol Luca de Tena e: sol(a)zenzeleni.net c: (+27/0) 839 47 4946 w: zenzeleni.net Skype: sol.lucadetena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTPSWMX26M Zenzeleni Networks NPC - Winner of Best Innovation with Social Impact Award, Innovation Bridge 2017 - Finalist of Mozilla Equal Rating Innovation Challenge, 2017 -- Sol Luca de Tena e: sol(a)zenzeleni.net c: (+27/0) 839 47 4946 w: zenzeleni.net Skype: sol.lucadetena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTPSWMX26M Zenzeleni Networks NPC - Winner of Best Innovation with Social Impact Award, Innovation Bridge 2017 - Finalist of Mozilla Equal Rating Innovation Challenge, 2017 _______________________________________________ Council mailing list Council(a)lists.cnsig.info https://lists.cnsig.info/mailman/listinfo/council

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[CNSIG-Council] Beyond The Net call closes in 16hs ...

by Nicolás Echániz

Hi all, A group of CNSIGers are working on two proposals for BtN here: https://pad.codigosur.org/CNSIG_BeyondTheNet_2018_large and here: https://pad.codigosur.org/CNSIG_BeyondTheNet_2018_medium We are communicating through Mattermost (for group chat): https://mattermost.altermundi.net If you haven't joined yet, you'll need to create an account and notify to this list so you can be added to the CNSIG team in Mattermost. Everyone interested in collaborating, come join the proposal writing sprint. Cheers! Nico

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[CNSIG-Council] Fwd: Re: joining the CNSIG

by Nicolás Echániz

Hi all, Jenny Ryan from Sudo Mesh / People's Open Network has sent us their application to join the CNSIG Below are their answers to our "form". Please send to this list any request for additional info and I'll forward it to Jenny. Cheers, Nico -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: joining the CNSIG Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 07:49:52 -0700 From: Jenny Ryan <jenny(a)peoplesopen.net> To: Nicolás Echániz <nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net> Organization: Sudo Mesh / People's Open Network (Sudo Mesh is the nonprofit org, PON is technically not an organizational entity) Country: USA Description: (Brief description of the Organization's involvement in Community Networks) *sudomesh is a group of volunteers operating out of the sudo room <https://sudoroom.org> hackerspace at the Omni Commons <https://omnicommons.org> - a collective of collectives stewarding a large community space in Oakland, California. We develop software and assemble hardware systems to help build open community networks like the People's Open Network <https://peoplesopen.net>, a community-owned and -operated wireless mesh network in Oakland.* Areas of Interest: (Areas of interest related to community networks) Mesh networking, network commons, community organizing, urban mesh networks, digital literacy, documentation, public education, net neutrality. Representative/s (up to 3): (name <email>, ...) * Jenny Ryan (jenny(a)peoplesopen.net) * Mai Sutton (mai(a)peoplesopen.net) * Eve Edelson (eve(a)peoplesopen.net)

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Re: [CNSIG-Council] Beyond the Net / meeting - tomorrow May 22 15:00 UTC

by Nicolás Echániz

(sorry - wrong date in the previous mail) Hello again, according to the meeting poll[1] the most popular date for the meeting is tomorrow: Tuesday May 22 / 15h00 - 16h00 UTC There are 3 organisation which are available on that date but there are some council members that have not answered the poll, please join the meeting if you can. Cheers, Nico =============================== Details for the meetiong: As usual, we will be using Mumble. Please consider this suggestions for the meeting * If you are new to mumble, try it before the meeting. Writte us if you have issues that can't fix. We will also be available from 15' before the scheduled time to deal with technical issues. * Be online at least 5' before the scheduled time so we start on time. * Have a laptop available so you can follow and contribute to the collaborative notes. * Have earphones to avoid audio loops. Mumble configuration. We will use the aureasocial server. Use this information to configure it[2]: Tag/label: Aureasocial Address: mumble.aureasocial.org Port: 64738 User name: <choose your own> Password: <no need to set one> Configure "push to talk" method[3] You can use a Desktop client or the mobile App Plumble to access Mumble [4]. [1] https://framadate.org/lDDpFkTAVhHqrul6 [2] https://www.mumble.com/support/how-to-connect-to-a-mumble-server.php [3] https://www.mumble.com/support/mumble-server-push-to-talk.php [4] https://www.mumble.com

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[CNSIG-Council] Beyond the Net / meeting - tomorrow april 22 15:00 UTC

by Nicolás Echániz

Hello again, according to the meeting poll[1] the most popular date for the meeting is tomorrow: Tuesday April 22 / 15h00 - 16h00 UTC There are 3 organisation which are available on that date but there are some council members that have not answered the poll, please join the meeting if you can. Cheers, Nico =============================== Details for the meetiong: As usual, we will be using Mumble. Please consider this suggestions for the meeting * If you are new to mumble, try it before the meeting. Writte us if you have issues that can't fix. We will also be available from 15' before the scheduled time to deal with technical issues. * Be online at least 5' before the scheduled time so we start on time. * Have a laptop available so you can follow and contribute to the collaborative notes. * Have earphones to avoid audio loops. Mumble configuration. We will use the aureasocial server. Use this information to configure it[2]: Tag/label: Aureasocial Address: mumble.aureasocial.org Port: 64738 User name: <choose your own> Password: <no need to set one> Configure "push to talk" method[3] You can use a Desktop client or the mobile App Plumble to access Mumble [4]. [1] https://framadate.org/lDDpFkTAVhHqrul6 [2] https://www.mumble.com/support/how-to-connect-to-a-mumble-server.php [3] https://www.mumble.com/support/mumble-server-push-to-talk.php [4] https://www.mumble.com

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[CNSIG-Council] BeyondTheNet and SIG Strategy

by Nicolas Pace

Hi Fellows, The BeyondTheNet Medium and Large Projects call is open till 2018-05-15 , so we have aproximately one month to present proposals, both at the local chapters and as a SIG: https://internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/medium-large-scale-projects/ 25 projects out of ~200 projects were accepted last year based on estimations done using the data here: https://www.internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/grants/ And of those, 7 were about CN related topics. Access and Development is one of the key areas for this call, and this makes projects associated with Community Networks of special interest, and of course the other key areas: Standards, Policy and Enabling sustainable development. Discussing with NicoE we see that this a big opportunity for us as Group of CNs speaking by themselves: * a chance for all of us to get an important push by this fund * an opportunity for the CNSIG to show that we represent the interests of the Communities, and to help the Local Chapters acknowledge and validate this representation * the chance to coordinate efforts among ourselves to augment our chance to do impact * a way for us to speak strongly about what are our needs and our way of dealing with them For that, would like to propose: * let each other know who wants to participate and on what you might be interested in participating * if possible, work together on common areas * split projects in network deployment kickstart/scaling and local capacity building projects (more tightly coupled to a Chapter), and technology development projects (more associated to a collective benefit, would say to the whole SIG). * do endorcement letters for all projects that came from members of the cnsig * announce in the cnsig.info page the projects that have been submitted What do you think? Also, would like to send this Questions to ask to Beyond The Net fund (Ilda I guesS): * Is there a minimum or maximum amount of projects going to be approved for each chapter/SIG? This will allow us to strategize properly how to ask for the funds. * Is there a minimum or maximum amount of projects going to be approved for each Focus Area (CN, Standards, Policy, Sustainability) per Chapter/SIG? That will allow us to push the idea that CNSIG endorsed projects should be approved. * Can global actors work together in proposals and present them in different regions for applying them in their respective regions? That will allow us to write proposals together instead of individually, and do a collective plan that has local implementation. Regards, FYI The list of presented projects, and rejection/approval, can be seen here: https://www.internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/grants/applications/ Apparently only June-2017 were loaded there.

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[CNSIG-Council] welcome Freifunk and Guifi.net

by Nicolás Echániz

Hi all, I wanted to let you know that Monic Meisel from Freifunk as well as Ramón Roca and Roger Baig from guifi.net have been subscribed to this Council list. Monic, Ramón and Roger, the CNSIG is a young group we created during december 2017 and we are currently in the process of defining the roadmaps for the working groups. The 4 groups are: 1) Policy and regulation (coordinator: Thiago Novaes) 2) Technical (coordinator: NicoEchániz) 3) Training, capacity building and knowledge sharing (no coordinator) 4) Social impact (coordinator: Panayotis Antoniadis Feel free to join any of these groups (each one has it's own mailing list) and also do invite members from your communities that could be interested in these areas of work. Our next meeting hasn't been scheduled yet. We have been using Mumble for the audio calls. It will be announced here. Please ask here anything you need. Welcome! Cheers, Nico

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[CNSIG-Council] agenda_meeting

by novaes＠riseup.net

Dear Colleagues, I have been reading our list and would like to contribute with the proposal made by NicoE to organize a CNSIG meeting in Argentina. There are two important events taking place in August and September in Buenos Aires: Reunión Preparatoria para el Foro de Gobernanza de Internet from July 31st to August 2nd https://lacigf.org/en/ The 5th Annual Latin America Spectrum Management Conference 5-6 September https://eu-ems.com/summary.asp?event_id=4368&page_id=9568 I think we should try to meet as soon as possible, and these two events could be a good opportunity for us to be together. Maybe between these two periods, during north hemisphere's summer, and again in 9 months! (Nico's proposal). It would be nice to hear from you, and know if it makes sense to share these two links. best, Thiago

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[CNSIG-Council] Fwd: ISOC - CL : Open Board Forum

by Nicolás Echániz

FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: ISOC - CL : Open Board Forum Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 15:17:05 +0000 From: ISOC Connect Team via Internet Society <Mail(a)ConnectedCommunity.org> Reply-To: INTERNETSOCIETY-chapterleaderscommunity(a)ConnectedCommunity.org To: nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net Dear Chapter Leaders, The Internet Society Board of Trustees would like to try something new for the Open Forum segment of its regular meetings... -posted to the "Chapter Leaders Community" community == Please, reply above this line == ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Chapter Leaders, The Internet Society Board of Trustees would like to try something new for the Open Forum segment of its regular meetings and welcomes you to attend on *Wednesday, 20 June!* Since 2016, there have been four Open Board Forum meetings that took place alongside the busy Board meeting schedule, each time at a weekend and always in different time zones. In a bid to make this more convenient for you, we are moving the next one to a weekday. As well as providing you with ample notice, we invite your feedback and suggestions in advance of this meeting. *Please kindly complete the survey via the link <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SQWB7H8> by Thursday, 7 June.* This will help us measure the level of interest from the ISOC community in interacting with the Board and get suggestions on effective methods of interaction. Note that we took notice of the GDPR guidelines when processing your data. *The next Open Board Forum will take place virtually on June 20,* *2018 at 14:00 UTC.* Please forward this message to your Chapter Members as it this session is open to ALL to attend. <:%20https://isoc.zoom.us/j/476291954> We thank you for your time and look forward to seeing you online! Best Regards, The Board of Trustees of the Internet Society

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[CNSIG-Council] mailing list for people joining the CNSIG

by Nicolás Echániz

Hi all, There are already 78 people who have joined the CNSIG through ISOC's forms. About 50 of those people have never made contact and we don't even know if they are part of a community network or just looking to learn a bit about what the CNSIG is up to. We do not contemplate a space for such participation, so they are just piling up in the database for now... I thought maybe we can create another mailing list just to stay in touch with them. I want to ask what you think is a reasonable name for that list. I thought to just call it: discussion(a)lists.cnsig.info I also want to know if you wish to be subscribed to that list. In case you do wish, let me know. Cheers! Nico

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