[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC 16th Anniversary Celebration in Dublin?

[Karel Douglas]

FANTASTIC idea - you have my full support! I'll be in Dublin so please let
me where I can assist.

regards

Karel Douglas

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <benakin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello All,
> I totally support the 16th Anniversary celebration. I hope I can make it
> to Dublin..it would be such a blast.
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> As long as there are other eager members ready to celebrate, I believe we
> have a party.
> In other to move forward with the plan.. I suggest there should be party
> organizing team...just to coordinate the event, nothing too formal.
>
> Thanks Bill,
>
> Just my thoughts,
> Benjamin
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> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 4:47 PM Joy Liddicoat <joy at liddicoatlaw.co.nz>
> wrote:
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>> Thanks Bill – what a nice idea – enjoy the celebrations in Dublin !
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>> *From:* ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org [mailto:
>> ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org] *On Behalf Of *Robin Gross
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 29 August 2015 3:36 a.m.
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>> *To:* William Drake
>> *Cc:* NCUC-discuss
>> *Subject:* Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC 16th Anniversary Celebration in
>> Dublin?
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Robin
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>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 4:23 AM, William Drake wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> Sometimes I am rather slow to think of things….
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>> 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
>> https://features.icann.org/1999-10-18-domain-name-supporting-organization.
>> 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.
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>> 3 possible scenarios requiring ascending levels of effort:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 3.  We hold an open to all party.
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>> For 2 or 3 we probably would need to seek outside funding, e.g. from
>> ICANN and past supporters, e.g. PIR, CGI.br, etc.
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>> 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.
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>> Does this have any appeal to anyone?  If so we could create an organizing
>> team.  If not, ok no worries, just a thought…
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>> Best
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>> Bill
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>> International Fellow & Lecturer
>>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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>>   www.williamdrake.org
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