10 May
2018
10 May
'18
12:38 a.m.
On 05/09/2018 04:22 AM, bruno vianna wrote:
I'm catching up too.
Yes Nico, we've being talking a lot about a Latin American meeting. It
is urgent!
Quintana seems the perfect place, with a long history in CNing and good
infrastructure.
Let's talk about this in another thread, now that we know this cannot be
organized through a BTN project.
But let me understand - if we can't use the big
slot for the global
meeting, then we have to find a new project, right? And perhaps think of
something for the small grant too?
Yes, I have confirmed that we cannot propose for BTN projects that need
to spend most of their budget in travel expenses.
We can still keep sharing our ideas regarding inter-community exchanges
and regional and global meetings, but for the present BTN cycle we need
to find a new project, or one for large grant and one for medium (30K
and 10K respectively).
We have been talking a bit about this in the LibreMesh/LibreRouter
community and we could make a grant proposal in the line of continuing
development of both the software and hardware components. Many CNSIG
communities are using or planning to use these technologies and we could
collectively decide what's are our collective needs in this regard, but
I personally do not want to impose a project.
Kyle (ISOC) did mention that technology development projects fit well in
the BTN for SIGs, as long as their impact extends to more than one
country/region.
I propose that we share some ideas on projects we could present from the
SIG and then choose one for each type of grant.
So, in line with what I just mentioned, my first proposal for
consideration is:
* LibreRouter phase 2
... let's populate a list of ideas? We can then either discuss here or
do a Mumble meeting to evaluate possibilities. We need to do this soon.
Cheers!
Nico
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:28 AM, Nicolás Echániz
<nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net <mailto:nicoechaniz@altermundi.net>> wrote:
OK, I've been doing some inquiries to avoid working in vane and it turns
out that BTN money cannot be used for events like the one we are
planning to organize.
But it's not bad news really... Christian O'Flaherty (ISOC) just told me
that ISOC can support a regional meeting in Latin America this year,
outside of the BTN program, with ISOC budget and then during 2019 ISOC
can support a global summit.
This means that we wouldn't be competing for budget, but we would need
to agree with ISOC on the planning of the event. Christian told me they
would like to invite Government, regulators, private companies, etc...
to which I answered that my impression is that we CNSIG would like to
have a meeting that is more work-centered, but it would be great to host
a 1 day event (maybe the last day of the summit) where we can receive
all these stakeholders and invite the general public too.
Let me know what you all think of this developments...
And this also means that we need to think of other projects to present
for a large and medium BTN grant this year from the CNSIG.
Cheers,
Nico
On 05/05/2018 06:09 AM, Sol Luca de Tena wrote:
will be
have a bit
this time
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Hi all, this sounds great.. I've written on
Panos' pad
(https://pad.codigosur.org/CNSIG_beyond-the-net
<https://pad.codigosur.org/CNSIG_beyond-the-net>). On another hand I
think we should aim to_finalise our scope _by end
of next week.
Ill send
out a doodle for meeting times.
Thanks peeps
Sol
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2018-05-05 7:25 GMT+02:00 Nicolás Echániz <nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net
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<mailto:nicoechaniz@altermundi.net>>>:
On 05/03/2018 09:15 AM, Sol Luca de Tena wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks Nico P for this. I agree this is a great opportunity
and I
agree
> with your framework. Also related, Nico
E and I had a
meeting with two
> of the coordinators of Chapters/SIGs in
ISOC - Kyle and
Christine.
> Summarising and answering some of the
queries posed by Nico
P; they said
that each
Chapter/SIG could receive 1, maybe 2 grants.
Kyle from ISOC has confirmed that only one slot (big grant) assigned to the SIG. So I think we must
decide for what's our
project
with most potential impact and just present
that one.
He mentioned that we could also get one small grant slot, so
maybe we
can think about something for that too.
> What I understood
> is that SIGs are considered global groups and therefore
projects
should
> deal with transnational/ transregional
issues (where Chapter
have more
> regional focus). They also mentioned
that while the grants
are awarded
> to the SIG there is a choice of who
participates - meaning
either all
> organisations participate, or only those
who are interested.
We also
> need to keep in mind that the grant
application closes on
the 15th May,
so we
need to act quickly if we want to use this opportunity.
The call for proposals will be extended untill May 29, so we more time, but we still need to work on
this.
Regarding the "transnationality" of the proposal, I think that
presenting a proposal that is signed by every organization
that is part
of the CNSIG will send a very strong signal
regarding our will to
collaborate in our path forward.
> In terms of topics, two ideas from my side.
> 1) I think 'exchange of experience' is highly under rated. I
think if we
> had the means to spend time in
understanding each other's
organisations
> and our practices better we would learn
a lot. I mean a more
long term,
> funded exchange, where maybe we can
visit each other and
learn on site.
> I have spoken to many of you and each
time I learn something
new and
> applicable to solve an issue we have.
These conversations
however are
> usually rushed, over email or over
coffee at a Summit. I
think we could
> propose an exchange program between CNs,
and then highlight
a few key
> issues (I propose one below) that we can
address and create
some sort of
outcome
with (Best practices?Golden tips?Benefits of CNs?).
I completely agree that
this is crucial, and most of all at when we are just trying to get this group to
open it's wings :)
I'd say we can propose to have a global Community Networks Summit
which can:
- be hosted in a location in the global South
- have a duration of at least 5 days
- be organized with no waste of resources (no hotels,
restaurants, etc.)
Many of our members are also APC members so they could apply
for METF
funding to cover their flight costs and that
would add to the
BTN's 30K
budget.
A specific offer I'd like to mention: here in Quintana we have
a
bing
boarding school which has room/lodging for
about 100 children
that live
there during the school year and then
it's empty during our
summer. The
school is part of QuintanaLibre and the
school principal, who
is also
personally a member, has already agreed to
offer the school for
community network related events during the summer.
Accomodation and
food (in the school's diner, would be
very affordable.
So... those are some ideas :) of course nothing's set in
stone!
just
sharing...
Sol, should we do a poll to pick a date and do a Mumble meeting to
brainstorm and begin preparing a project?
Cheers!
Nico
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