<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Terrific idea, Bill! I like all the options, so if we can find funding from supporters for the larger gathering, that would be great, but if not, we can do the smaller constituency dinner. But we really should celebrate this. ICANN has never acknowledged NCUC's longevity, but other ACs have "birthday" celebrations nearly every year on ICANN's tab.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robin<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 28, 2015, at 4:23 AM, William Drake wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sometimes I am rather slow to think of things….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">The Non-Commercial Domain Names Holders Constituency (which later became NCUC) and other GNSO constituencies were officially recognized by the ICANN Board on Monday 18 October 1999 <a href="https://features.icann.org/1999-10-18-domain-name-supporting-organization" class="">https://features.icann.org/1999-10-18-domain-name-supporting-organization</a>. We did nothing last year to celebrate our 15th anniversary, which shows some resilience as Internet-oriented civil society networks go. But if there’s sufficient interest, we could make up for it by doing something for our 16th. After all we’ll be in Dublin, hardly a bad place for libation and such. 18 October 2015 is Sunday night, and as far as I know thus far there’s nothing major scheduled that would prevent us from doing something. Or we could it after Constituency Day, on Tuesday 20th, assuming there’s no music night. This might be more sensible as we’ll have just spent the day together etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3 possible scenarios requiring ascending levels of effort:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. We assemble all members who will be in attendance and reserve a room in a good pub or restaurant. If the EC approves, we could put the bill on NCUC’s tab.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. We assemble all members who will be in attendance plus some invited co-conspirators, in which case it might make sense to ask for space at the conference site.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. We hold an open to all party. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For 2 or 3 we probably would need to seek outside funding, e.g. from ICANN and past supporters, e.g. PIR, <a href="http://CGI.br/" class="">CGI.br</a>, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we wanted we could have some vets make welcoming remarks, make it amusing. Hire an Irish singer with a guitar. Decorate the place with Milton masks and ask Alex Pisanty to keynote (kidding)…whatever.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does this have any appeal to anyone? If so we could create an organizing team. If not, ok no worries, just a thought…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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