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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><pre style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM, </span>Tapani Tarvainen (ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info) wrote:</pre><pre style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; "><pre style="white-space: normal; "><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>If we are seriously going to get bylaws done, you need to be there in<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>person. You are the lawyer among us, and while I hope we can get them<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>to some kind of shape with online collaboration before that, but there<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>will inevitably remain issues that are much easier to handle face to face.<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; "><br></span></pre><pre style="white-space: normal; ">Totally agreed. Tapani and Ed, of course including Bill, should be first considered to be offered funding.<br><pre style="white-space: normal; ">They are taking the lead on this work.</pre><pre style="white-space: normal; "><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">> </span>Agreed. Zuan and Wilson, any ideas how much you'd like and could<br>work on this?</pre><pre style="white-space: normal; ">I would certainly like to participate in the work,since I am new on EC, but I would like contribute what I could do.</pre><pre style="white-space: normal; ">On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Wilson Abigaba <abigabaw@gmail.com> wrote:<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>Just like Tapani and Ed, I don't *have* to be there but I can make it.<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>And having been funded for the last 2 meetings, It's only fair that I<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>should be one of the last to consider if we have budget issues. I<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>would thus put myself behind Peter in the queue. That said, looks like<br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">></span>my ticket is one of the most expensive ($2000-$2400).<br><br><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">In fact, I should be one of the last to consider to be covered for the BA trip, since I am new. But, a</span><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">s I have mentioned earlier, I expect to fit into discussions of our team. I have to learn. </span></pre><pre style="white-space: normal; "><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">( After a consultation with the director, I got the information that my organization would first consider covering some senior directors.)</span></pre><pre style="white-space: normal; "><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">Anyway, I will support any arrangement regarding the trip.</span></pre><pre style="white-space: normal; "><font face="΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif">Best </font></pre><pre style="white-space: normal; "><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; ">Peter</span></pre><pre style="white-space: normal; "><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ, sans-serif; "> </span></pre></pre></pre> </div></body>
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