<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;">So in the end Niels doesn’t need the funding we discussed.<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br><div><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';">Niels ten Oever <<a href="mailto:niels@article19.org">niels@article19.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>Re: Your request for NCUC travel support</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';">October 7, 2014 at 1:00:24 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';">William Drake <<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Hi Bill,<br><br>Sorry, have been quite busy. A19 can pay for this, so I'll apply for<br>NCUC funding another time if all costs can be covered by NCUC, and if<br>I stay all days. Probably easier for everyone involved.<br><br>Thanks anyhow.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Niels<br><br>On 10/02/2014 07:22 PM, William Drake wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Niels<br><br>Sorry again about my boo boo last night, it was a very long day and<br>I was trying to reply quickly to your request given the time<br>factor. While it is again late after a long day, I will attempt<br>this time to correctly route a message :-(<br><br>The consensus response of the EC is that we can offer you $2,000 <br>under the conditions of the new travel policy announced 25<br>September, the relevant bits in this case being<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>4. Agree to participate in the NCUC, NCSG and GNSO<br>meetings to be held during the meeting;<br><br>5. Agree to write a brief post-trip report for the NCUC <br>website reflecting on the meeting’s main developments of <br>relevance to NCUC;<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>I’m sorry that this is less than you asked for, but please bear in <br>mind that the request is coming a week before the meeting, and<br>that the proposed itinerary is unusually expensive (I don’t believe<br>NCUC has ever given anyone $3,000 for a plane ticket in 15 years<br>of operation) and a three continent thing rather than a round trip.<br>As you may have seen on the discuss list, there was also some<br>concern about funding a trip that ends early before a key day of<br>the meeting when we need people on the ground.<br><br>I hope nevertheless that this will be sufficient to make it<br>possible for you to attend, as it’d be great to have you with us.<br>If you do go for it, it’ll have to be a payment after the meeting<br>upon provision of the ticket to Milton, who’s our Treasurer and<br>would have to arrange payment.<br><br>Please let me know what you decide to do.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Bill<br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>