Volunteer

• Become a member of the Technical Committee
  • Advise and help implement all of the below
• Web (assistant webmasters - handle subset of pages)
  • Easy Beginning Hikes
  • Club Pages
  • Search Answers - supply pages that answer questions that people searched for on site and did not find.
  • Advocacy - someone who follows environmental news closely
  • Calendar
  • Links - check periodically and fix
  • Check links to us by major search engines periodically
  • Outreach - The committee will supply material to post
  • Trails
    • Overview map links need greater depth
      • Adirondacks
      • Catskills
      • Many smaller areas
    • New Trails, relocations, closures
    • Where to camp/backpack
    • Transportation
    • GPS waypoints
• Office
  • Train staff in the use of programs
  • Repair/install machines
  • Install/configure software
  • Help desk
  • Filemaker (eBase) programmer, layout specialist

Lobby for sensible internet policies

Congress frequently tries to pass laws which affect the internet. Some of these affect the Trail Conference's use of the internet.

• Domain names - Currently we own nynjtc.org, nynjtc.com and nynjtc.net. The latter two are defensive holdings to prevent others from using/abusing our trademarks. ICANN is currently studying increasing the number of primary domains, e.g. .store. Currently no one verifies that someone applying for a .org name is indeed a non-profit, a .com is indeed a company or .net a network supplier. However the .edu domain is policed. It is important that all future names be policed or we will have to obtain an unbounded number of defensive names.

Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency (NCDNHC) (NCDNHC)

WHAT'S HAPPENING

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an international organization that coordinates domain names, IP addresses, and other technical functions for the Internet. ICANN will be making important decisions affecting the Internet, such as creating new domains (like ".store" and ".personal"), settling trademark disputes over domain names, and setting technical parameters for the Domain Name System.

ICANN has a board of directors, three Supporting Organizations, several advisory committees, and an At-Large membership. Individuals can participate in ICANN and vote for its board of directors by joining the At-Large membership.

Anyone with an email account and postal address over the age of 16 can become a member.

ICANN will hold its first global "At-Large" election, for five new directors, starting this summer. Voter registration will likely end sometime in late July, so it's important to sign up now if you want to be part of the voting membership.

WHAT CAN I DO?

Please take a moment to click on this link: http://www.cdt.org/action/icann/

• Required filtering - Although we don't think (and certainly don't intend) that we have any material that filtering programs might use to exclude people from our site, the facts are the such programs are arbitrary and capricious and we could be affected.
• Privacy policies - Some of the provisions of COPA make it expensive for small not-for-profits to explicitly attract children to their web site.
• Internet taxes - Some implementations could make doing business on the web hard or expensive for small not-for-profits.
• SPAM costs our staff time deleting it as well as offending them in some cases.
• Internet patents - Some techniques that we might want to use are patented.
• Copyright and related legislation - Some of the new laws and proposed laws affect out ability to share or protect trail data that we collect or access to data collected by others.