<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am happy to also volunteer to be involved in meeting planning, with the caveat that LA is one of the worst time zones for me (their working day tends to more or less coincide exactly with when I’d like to be asleep) so I may not be available for calls. But I can do email. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Aug 2017, at 10:22 am, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I summarized all your comments + members comments on intersessional and sent to Mary and Benedetta. Mary said in response:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">"As always, thank you for getting back to us on this topic, and thanks to Farzaneh for clearly explaining the concerns and opinions across the NCUC community. Since there appears to be a substantial majority of the NCPH community that favors holding the next Intersessional in Los Angeles on </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-aQJ">February 1 & 2, 2018</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">, staff suggests that the </span><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">next step be a planning call amongst all the representatives from each SG and Constituency</u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">. Please be so kind as to fill in this Doodle poll at your earliest convenience:</span><a href="http://doodle.com/poll/gcb7u64q8k5swi8u" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">http://doodle.com/poll/<wbr class="">gcb7u64q8k5swi8u</a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span>We are very cognizant of the concern about obtaining a US visa for some travelers. We are therefore proposing the planning call so that it’s possible to: (1) secure the necessary meeting space, and inform those senior staff whose participation will be requested, at the ICANN office in Los Angeles for the relevant dates; (2) begin the travel arrangement process for approved travelers as soon as possible (bearing in mind the different completion dates of each group’s upcoming Councilor or officer election); and (3) facilitate your overall program planning for this meeting.<br class=""> <br class="">Finally, if you wish to add (or substitute) another person from your SG/Constituency to participate in the planning process, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can add them to the group list. Please also forward them the link to the Doodle poll so they can participate in the planning call, if possible."</blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">I would like the EC members, especially those who requested these meetings to be on annual basis, to actively engage with planning it. Unfortunately, I don't have the bandwidth to attend as many planning meetings as I want to. So please volunteer to attend the calls, and take the poll.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">Best </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
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