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

[Norbert Klein]

Thanks, Bill, and all the others who are happy about a “sweet sixteen”
celebration.

It is good to lift up the “longevity of NCUC” as Robin said, and I think
this is not only a reference just to the 16 years, but also to a basic
perseverance with which we have maintained our basic orientation through
all these years, in spite of the difficulties we faced.

Who are the “early members who are still around ICANN” to whom James
referred? Well, I am one who was at the 1999 Santiago de Chile ICANN
meeting, where NCUC was looking for recognition, and then I moved slowly
to the role of Asia region representative in our Executive Committee (as
I was already in Cambodia at that time, where I had established the
first Internet connection in 1994), then GNSO, and finally NCUC sent me
into the ICANN Nomination Committee. - 2010 in Brussels was my last
presence at an ICANN meeting. Since then I am only on some lists – still
present for the Open Institute of Cambodia, but not so active, as I am
now living in the countryside in Cambodia, still struggling with stable
Internet access, while others in other parts of the world fight for Net
Neutrality, and recently more concerned for people who get into trouble
for what they write in a blog or paste into Facebook.

Have fun at the celebration.


Norbert

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Norbert Klein

Kep/Cambodia

On 08/28/2015 06:23 PM, William Drake wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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 <http://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.
>
> Does this have any appeal to anyone?  If so we could create an
> organizing team.  If not, ok no worries, just a thought…
>
> Best
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> Bill
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