<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div style=""><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Nathalie Peregrine <<a href="mailto:nathalie.peregrine@icann.org">nathalie.peregrine@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>REMINDER: PLEASE RSVP Monthly GNSO WG Newcomer Open House Session</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">June 5, 2014 at 10:53:09 AM GMT+2<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>>, "William Drake (<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>)" <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>>, "marie-laure Lemineur (<a href="mailto:mllemineur@gmail.com">mllemineur@gmail.com</a>)" <<a href="mailto:mllemineur@gmail.com">mllemineur@gmail.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:cintra.sooknanan@gmail.com">cintra.sooknanan@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:cintra.sooknanan@gmail.com">cintra.sooknanan@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"<a href="mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org">gnso-secs@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org">gnso-secs@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Please forward to your new members!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b> </b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b> </b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Nathalie<o:p></o:p></b></div><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Reminder: Monthly GNSO WG Newcomer Open House Session</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">These ongoing monthly sessions are for new GNSO WG participants to come together and discuss any questions they may have about GNSO Working Groups, procedures and/or processes. We know there is a lot of information to digest when you join a GNSO Working Group and these monthly meetings are an opportunity for newcomers and more experienced participants to meet in an informal setting without the pressure of “real work” that needs be done.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The agenda is flexible. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The presenters will be ready with a standard set of materials if people would like to discuss them<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Feel free to submit questions, either in advance or at the beginning of the meeting, if there is a topic that you would like to explore in more depth . Providing useful answers to a wide range of questions is part of the reason why these meetings are</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br>Thursday 5 June at 12.00 UTC<br>Thursday 3 July at 20.00 UTC<br>Thursday 7 August at 12.00 UTC<br>Thursday 4 September at 20.00 UTC<br>Thursday 2 October at 12.00 UTC<br>Thursday 6 November at 20.00 UTC<br>Thursday 4 December at 12.00 UTC</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To convert to your local time zone, please see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you are interested to join the next<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">meeting on 5 June or any<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="">of the future meetings, please let the GNSO Secretariat know (</span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US">gnso-secs@icann.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and we will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="">send you the call details. If there are any specific questions you already have, or any overviews or introductions you think would be helpful (e.g. GNSO Policy Development Process or GNSO Working Group guidelines), please let us know in advance and we will prepare materials accordingly. Feel free to share this invitation with others that you think may be interested.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We look forward to welcoming you at the next meeting!</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nathalie Peregrine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">GNSO Secretariat</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
***********************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************
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