I fully agree to add Roger and possibly more Guifi.net reps to the list. But one of our top priorities should be to establish some basic formal procedures, like joining the SIG, parting from it etc. In my opinion, having well-documented procedures is a matter of transparency and gives more credibility to the group.

2018-01-11 19:10 GMT+02:00 Nicolás Echániz &lt;nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net <mailto:nicoechaniz@altermundi.net>>: Hi all, Roger from guifi.net <http://guifi.net> made contact after the official ISOC announcement. He asks what's the procedure to join the CNSIG. We haven't yet established this clearly but in my opinion guifi.net <http://guifi.net> needs no introduction and I would just invite them to join directly. If anyone considers it's better to wait untill we have an established procedure, please say so. Otherwise, I'll just tell Roger to join the mailing list and add him in the ISOC admin system as a member of the SIG. Cheers! NicoEchániz -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Joining ISOC CNSIG Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:02:03 +0100 From: Roger Baig Viñas &lt;roger.baig(a)guifi.net <mailto:roger.baig@guifi.net>> Organization: Fundació Privada per a la Xarxa Oberta, Lliure i Neutral guifi.net <http://guifi.net> To: NicoEchániz &lt;nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net <mailto:nicoechaniz@altermundi.net>>, Leandro Navarro &lt;leandro(a)ac.upc.edu <mailto:leandro@ac.upc.edu>> Hola Nico, Cómo hay que proceder para unirse al nuevo SIG de CNs de ISOC? [1]. Aun no está listado: https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs <https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs> gracias [1] https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/chapter-delegates/2018-January/019698. html <https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/chapter-delegates/2018-January/019698. html> _______________________________________________ Council mailing list Council(a)lists.cnsig.info <mailto:Council@lists.cnsig.info> https://lists.cnsig.info/mailman/listinfo/council <https://lists.cnsig.info/mailman/listinfo/council> _______________________________________________ Council mailing list Council(a)lists.cnsig.info https://lists.cnsig.info/mailman/listinfo/council

On 01/11/2018 02:47 PM, Nicholas Kourtzis wrote: While we establish this formal procedures, for the case of Roger - and maybe for any other such "applications" that come in before procedures are in place - we can ask the applicants to send an e-mail stating: Organization: Representative/s: (name <email>) Description: (Brief description of the Organization's involvement in Community Networks) I can ask Roger to send such info and share it with the Council. Panos had Suggested we create a simple web form to receive applications. We can implement that easily. Cheers, NicoEchániz _______________________________________________ Council mailing list Council(a)lists.cnsig.info https://lists.cnsig.info/mailman/listinfo/council

I think it's perfectly fine if we have the first SIG meeting with the founding members and then we reach out to other communities. We, the current group, have shared this CNSIG creation process for a while already and I feel it's good for consolidation that we have this first meeting among those who started it. There are a lot of communities to reach out to, but considering this is at least the third time we try to create a global community networks "federation", I prefer to move slowly but steadily, hoping this time we can succeed :) If a majority prefers to start reaching out ASAP, let's discuss how.