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Topics for 2014
by Glenn McKnight Dec. 31, 2014

Dec. 31, 2014

Hi All We are coming to a close of 2014 and I wanted to remind the group that we are asking for community feedback on various topics for discussion on our monthly calls. Note the technology solutions should be tied to the strategic objectives of ALAC and they should be screened as to cross platform application I have posted here the three topics I am recommending https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Recommended++Topics+for+Monthly… Topic One is on EBOOKS . This is a portable and interactive mobile solution to harmonize ICANN content and push the content to the mobile phone Topic Two is on Captioning of Videos This is a followup to the demonstration of ADOBE CONNECT calls using Captioning. The absence of Captioning in ICANN Videos is a serious issue with simple solutions Topic Three is on Online Collaborative Project Management Tools. Free or low cost project management to-do lists and action items is critical to help manage the flow of ideas into actions Please add your topics so we can start planning the presenters each month. Thanks <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Recommended++Topics+for+Monthly…> Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight .

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[Accessibility-wg] Web Accessibiity RFP (request for proposal)
by Laura Bengford Dec. 24, 2014

Dec. 24, 2014

Hello, ICANN has issued the RFP for web accessibility assessment of ICANN websites and it has been openly posted, https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rfps-2012-02-25-en. The following vendors have been specifically contacted but if you are aware of other vendors that may be interested, please feel free to direct them to the RFP. Media Access Australia Vision Australia Simply Accessible (Portland): MercatorNet, Nicholas Steenhout: SSB Bart Group : Deque: Accessible Computing, Inc Essential Accessibility Loop11: New Editions Consulting, Inc. Paciello Group, LLP RampWEB, Inc. A special thank you to Chair and WG members Cheryl, Gunela, and Anthony for assisting with development of the RFP and Glenn, Judith and others for providing additional background information. Happy Holidays! Laura Bengford ICANN

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Skype Translator Preview kicks off with English and Spanish languages
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Dec. 17, 2014

Dec. 17, 2014

http://blogs.skype.com/2014/12/15/skype-translator-preview-an-exciting-jour… "Today, we are excited to announce the first phase of the Skype Translator preview program. The preview program will kick-off with two spoken languages, Spanish and English, and 40+ instant messaging languages will be available to Skype customers who have signed-up via the Skype Translator sign-up page and are using Windows 8.1 on the desktop or device." There's a video of it in action with two schools one in the US and one in Mexico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G87pHe6mP0I One can register for the Skype Translator Preview at http://www.skype.com/en/translator-preview/ There is also a Infographic describing how Skype Translator works: http://news.microsoft.com/download/presskits/skype/docs/SkypeTranslatorInfo… and associated technical blog post and video at http://blogs.skype.com/2014/12/15/skype-translator-how-it-works/ Kind Regards, Dev Anand

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Central Workspace for At-Large Action Items
by Ariel Liang Dec. 15, 2014

Dec. 15, 2014

Dear All As you are aware, there has been a long standing Action Item from the ALT & ALAC calls: > "Ariel Liang to work with Dev Anand Teelucksingh and Olivier Crepin-Leblond on > the development of an overall workspace for the collection of At-Large AIs." > After the recent Confluence system upgrade, a new task report macro <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Task+Report+Macro> has been enabled. It allows us to create an overall workspace to aggregate and display action items across the community wiki based on different requirements. Below are some test workspaces that I created: * Assignees <https://community.icann.org/x/y4QQAw> : It displays all open action items assigned to Ariel, Alan, Olivier, and/or Dev * Assigned by Ariel <https://community.icann.org/x/1IQQAw> : It displays all open action items assigned by Ariel * Label <https://community.icann.org/x/DIEQAw> : It displays all open action items on the pages labeled as <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Labels > ³alac-call² or ³alt-call² * 2014 ALAC Meetings <https://community.icann.org/x/z4QQAw> : It displays all open action items on the child pages of the parent page titled ³2014 ALAC Meetings" * ALT <https://community.icann.org/x/0oQQAw> : It displays all open action items within the space titled ³ALAC Executive Committee² Please kindly note the following additional functionalities: * In the task report macro setting, we can also choose to display completed action items, as well as action items created after certain date. * We can assign due date <http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/04/introducing-confluence-5-5-tasks-work/> for action items by using the ³//³ hotkey to pick a date we want the task accomplished by. The task display page will give us a visual reminder (i.e. color change of the due date). * Besides the task report macro, a new ³Tasks² page aggregates and displays all your own personal action items: https://community.icann.org/plugins/inlinetasks/mytasks.action. This page is in the drop-down menu once you click your profile picture icon in the top right corner. Please note the following limitations: * Perhaps due to glitches appeared during the Confluence system upgrade, assignees of some older action items are not properly displayed by the task report macro. Hence, if we decide to create a workspace that aggregates action items assigned to certain people, we may not be able to capture all those action items. That being said, this situation will likely cease when new action items are created and assigned to people in the upgraded Confluence system. * The system cannot send auto reminders about open action items to assignees yet. However, assignees will receive notifications when action items are created and when the content of the action items is changed. * When multiple people are tasked to complete an action item, the system only recognizes the first person in the list as the ³assignee² and will send him/her a notification about the action item. Thus, we will need to identify a primary task taker who will lead and coordinate with team members to tackle the task. I hope this information is satisfactory and the upgraded task function in Confluence can help us track our work more effectively. Best Regard, Ariel

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LACRALO mailing list translation issues wiki page updated
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Dec. 15, 2014

Dec. 15, 2014

Dear All, I've updated the LACRALO mailing list issues page to provide a history of the translation issues since 2008 and a table to track the issues discovered during the testing of the new translation tool. Currently, ICANN Staff have created two mailing lists (New-transbot-en and New-transbot-es) with a select number of persons on those lists for testing purposes. The LACRALO mailing list page can be found at https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-l… Dev Anand

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Reminder: Meeting Invitation: At-Large Technology Taskforce 15 December 2014
by staff＠atlarge.icann.org Dec. 12, 2014

Dec. 12, 2014

Dear All, The next At-Large Technology Taskforce call is scheduled on Monday 15 December 2014 at 1500 UTC. Adobe Connect room:http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/ <http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/> For other times: http://tinyurl.com/n2rbxu9 The draft agenda and call details are available at: https://community.icann.org/x/4YAQAw Wiki Workspace:https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at:staff@atlarge.icann.org. Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org <applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullr ich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gru ber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Sta ff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge <https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge <https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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The Accessibilty Project
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Dec. 9, 2014

Dec. 9, 2014

http://a11yproject.com/ "For many web developers, accessibility is complex and somewhat difficult. The Accessibility Project understands that and we want to help to make web accessibility easier for front end developers to implement." Looks to be a good resource Dev Anand

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Meeting Invitation: At-Large Technology Taskforce 15 December 2014
by staff＠atlarge.icann.org Dec. 8, 2014

Dec. 8, 2014

Dear All, The next At-Large Technology Taskforce call is scheduled on Monday 15 December 2014 at 1500 UTC. Adobe Connect room:http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/ <http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/> For other times: http://tinyurl.com/n2rbxu9 The agenda (to be updated) and call details are available at: https://community.icann.org/x/4YAQAw Wiki Workspace:https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at:staff@atlarge.icann.org. Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org <applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullr ich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gru ber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Sta ff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge <https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge <https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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Some notes about the call on Dec 8 2014 re: Anymeeting and Jitsi Meet
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Dec. 8, 2014

Dec. 8, 2014

Dear All, Just some notes regarding today's call on December 8 2014 at 1500 UTC ( https://community.icann.org/x/PIAQAw) Anymeeting http://www.anymeeting.com/ Anymeeting requirements: http://support.anymeeting.com/customer/portal/articles/1538779-anymeeting-s… If accessing the meeting from your browser then Flash is required ; however if you create an free account at anymeeting, you can download desktop apps for Windows and Mac There is a concern that using the browser in Linux isn't formally supported so we'll see if this is the case. Also, there are mobile apps for iOS and Android - search the relevant app stores to find them Jitsi Meet - https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiMeet I've done some testing and while there is a jitsi IM client which supports multiple chat protocols including the Jabber/XMPP server at Jit.si , its not (IMO) useful to test as it would require creating IM accounts, becoming friends with other such accounts, and so on. The experience would be very similar to Skype, IMO However Jitst Meet is a open source implementation of WebRTC which, if using the latest version of Google Chrome or Opera "just works" with a unique meeting URL that you can "jump" in. The support for Firefox isn't there yet. And it would be interesting to see if this works with the Mac and Linux versions of Chrome or Opera. Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh

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Reminder Meeting Invitation: At-Large Technology Taskforce 08 December 2014
by staff＠atlarge.icann.org Dec. 8, 2014

Dec. 8, 2014

Dear All, The next At-Large Technology Taskforce call is scheduled on Monday 08 December 2014 at 1500 UTC. Adobe Connect room:http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/ <http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/> For other times:http://tinyurl.com/ks4wx5d The draft agenda and call details are available at:https://community.icann.org/x/PIAQAw Wiki Workspace:https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at:staff@atlarge.icann.org. Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org <applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullr ich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gru ber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Sta ff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge <https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge <https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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