Hi Robin,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for taking on the leadership of this event. Â I'm really looking forward to it, and have joined the planning group on the website to help organize. And as Milton mentioned, IGP will help publicize.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br clear="all">---------------------------------------<br>Brenden Kuerbis<br>Internet Governance Project<br><a href="http://internetgovernance.org">http://internetgovernance.org</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
As you've probably heard, the March 2011 ICANN meeting (#40) will be in San Francisco, California. Â San Francisco has a vibrant civil society presence, with a number of international NGOs having offices here, so we should hold a side-event to attract local NGO's to the ICANN meeting and to participate at ICANN going forward.<br>
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The SF ICANN Mtg will be a good opportunity to explain to local people what important issues ICANN deals with and why they should become involved in ICANN policy development with NCUC. Â It would be great to have a large turn-out of own membership at the SF mtg too like we did in Seoul. Â Since SF is my home, I have a number of local contacts here that we can use to hold a really terrific noncommercial outreach event at that mtg.<br>
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But I'm going to need help from the membership in the organization of the event, so I'm looking for volunteers. Â If anyone would like to volunteer to help with organizing the event - please let me know asap. Â We will especially need help with planning the substance of the program for the event, promoting it among ICANN participants and of course fundraising. Â I've already asked ICANN if they have a room we can use at the official conference venue in March, but don't have an answer yet, so the specific location is not yet determined.<br>
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So if you are planning to come to the SF ICANN Meeting in March 2011, please volunteer to help organize this outreach event. Â (You can even volunteer to help organize if you aren't coming to the SF ICANN mtg.) Â Please shoot me a note to let me you'd like to volunteer and I'll add you to the organizing team.<br>
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And if you are coming to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Robin<br>
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