Re: [atlarge-discuss] 006 Deciding Name for Organisation

[eric@hi-tek.com]

Richard,
I agree with ridding ourselves of the at-large handle.

In the pursuit of outreach may I suggest a name that we here call a cross-over.
Like;
Viva personas. Or Folksspreken.
(no these are not thought out suggestions just examples of a cross-over)

Not necessarily proper in any language but easily recognized to be inclusive of
several.
Just a thought.
Eric
Richard Henderson wrote:

> The name of the organisation itself has to be a fairly urgent "task" to be
> accomplished and determined by our members. It's linked, perhaps, to Mission
> Statement - as some people may want the name of the organisation to reflect
> a fairly broad mission (I favour this, to broaden membership and make us
> more truly representative) - while others want a narrower technical
> relationship to ICANN (in which case ICANN-style terms like @large may
> figure... personally I'd prefer we steer clear of this, but I may get
> outvoted)
>
> The reason the name issue is important is because we urgently need to
> commence "branding" our product, and we need press releases etc, and the
> sooner we have an agreed name the better.
>
> I'll kick this one off by arguing the case for a broad emotive name which
> will capture the imagination of the public and the media - and support
> outreach to a broad membership. So I'm against yet another acronym or
> collection of letters. I personally dislike the mention of @large because
> here in UK and many other places it means virtually nothing to ordinary
> people. Here in UK the only things that are described as at large are
> escaped prisoners and dangerous wild animals.
>
> So I favour the use of broad emotive titles. From my own domains I can
> offer:
>
> www.TheVoiceofThePeople.com
>
> which would sum up the representational character of our work and the focus
> on democracy and ordinary people. Unfortunately the .org isn't available
>
> www.InternetParliament.com  and www.TheInternetParliament.com
>
> and I've also got one of the .orgs for that - OK it's a bit British
> sounding, but everyone knows what a parliament is. I admit I'm not sure if
> either of these two work ... they're just what I've got
>
> You want something like "Internet For All" or "Internet Nation" or whatever.
> Clearly you can be constrained by available domain names.
>
> I also favour keeping the @Large name as a sub-name on all websites, to
> position ourselves clearly in the @Large role in our demands for seats on
> the ICANN Board. I think we can refer to ourselves again and again as
> "Worldwide@Large" as an identity we claim by right of the scale of
> representation we achieve. A twofold approach to our use of names and terms
> might work.
>
> What processes do we apply to decide our name, and decide it soon? Do we
> make a list of all proposed names in this thread? Then do we ask the
> membership to vote from ??? 20 ??? suggestions. Then if there's no clear
> consensus, do we re-vote on the top 2 or 3?
>
> Ideas?
>
> Richard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>
> To: <espresso@e-scape.net>; <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 8:20 AM
> Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] RE: [atlarge-panel] Fw: [atlarge-discuss]
> ALOC
>
> > > The big thing is for our Panel and anyone we delegate to
> > > participate in a particular discussion on our behalf to remember
> > > that they don't (at least, don't yet) have a mandate to *speak
> > > for* the membership. >
> >
> > My understanding is that the Panel may delegate representatives to
> relevant
> > fora as observers, but these individuals have no advocacy role without a
> > mandate from the membership. At this moment in time we have 3
> > representatives in the ALOC. That's all. Personally, I would like to see
> > delegates in every fora, not only in observer capacity, but as advocates,
> > including every ICANN Task Force, but as others have said, if we resolve
> one
> > issue per week, we are doing well.
> >
> > It would be helpful to have feedback from the membership on what policy
> > issues they would like to address first. The Panel is working on a list of
> > suggestions.
> >
> > Joanna
> >
> >
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