[NCUC-EC] Travel funding for Singapore

Fri Feb 14 13:01:34 CET 2014

Agreed, Bill. It will be great to have Robin in Singapore. Unfortunately I
have a full day meeting here at the CGI.br so I will be unable to join our
call today. I am reading all emails re our event and feel free to assign
any homework after the call that you guys feel that I might help afterwards.

Best,
Carlos

2014-02-14 6:54 GMT-02:00 William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> Per previous, I loath the "silence is assent" model of decision making
> that's common in civil society networks but I am also exceptionally
> overloaded at the moment so can't keep sending reminders and waiting for
> replies, and things have to move.  I've proposed that we fund Robin's
> travel to Singapore (she's kindly offered to help lead on some conference
> logistics) and that we also fund one night of hotel for any NCUC members
> who can arrive early and help with/attend the conference.  We have the
> money to cover this and nobody's objected, so I'm going to assume that's ok
> so Robin can make her arrangements and Milton can come prepared to handle
> the hotel payments.  We can formally ratify this post hoc at our EC meeting
> in Singapore on Saturday.
>
> Please remember that we have an Event Team conference call today at 3pm
> CET to plan the conference agenda, which desperately needs to get posted
> and advertised even if some bits are still TBD.  It'd be great to have as
> many EC members involved as possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Balleste, Roy <rballeste at stu.edu> wrote:
>
> I support the travel funding for Robin.
>
> Roy Balleste
> Law Library Director &
> Professor of Law
> St. Thomas University Law Library
> 16401 NW 37th Avenue
> Miami Gardens, FL 33054
> 305-623-2341
>
> *From:* ncuc-ec-bounces at lists.ncuc.org [
> mailto:ncuc-ec-bounces at lists.ncuc.org <ncuc-ec-bounces at lists.ncuc.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *William Drake
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 04, 2014 12:15 PM
> *To:* NCUC EC
> *Subject:* [NCUC-EC] Fwd: Request for Singapore travel funding to NCUC EC
>
> Hi all
>
> As I've mentioned before, NCUC does have money in an account that it can
> use to fund travel of folks--whether elected EC, appointees, or just regular
> members who are really involved in something--who need to attend a
> particular meeting.  In general we've been pretty conservative in managing
> these resources; last year, I think we only paid once, for an EC member to
> attend Durban.  Since I was able to convince ICANN to fund another EC
> traveler for Singapore, I would think we should be able to handle Robin's
> request without worry.
>
> It would be helpful in addressing this and other responsibilities of a
> budgetary nature if the EC knew what we're working with.   Milton. you may
> not have noticed it amidst other sentences in the relevant messages, but
> I've asked a couple times if you could be so kind as to provide us with a
> current statement on the NCUC account.  The last one you shared was in the
> first half of last year, so with a new team in place etc. one would think
> it's high time for an update.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> *From: *Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org>
> *Subject: Request for Singapore travel funding to NCUC EC*
> *Date: *February 4, 2014 at 3:31:04 PM GMT+1
> *To: *William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
> *Cc: *Milton Mueller <Mueller at syr.edu>, Rafik Dammak <
> rafik.dammak at gmail.com>, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
>
> Bill, would you please forward my request to the entire EC?  Thanks!
>
>
> Dear NCUC Executive Committee,
>
> I am writing to request travel support for the March ICANN meeting in
> Singapore.   I estimate the cost of hotel and airfare to be $3,000.
>
> As NCUC's representative to the NCSG Executive Committee, I need to
> participate at the NCSG Executive Committee meeting in Singapore.  I would
> also like to contribute to the planning of and participate in the NCUC
> policy conference in Singapore.  I am also available to provide a policy
> statement on behalf of NCUC in the Public Forum in Singapore should NCUC
> wish to make a statement there.  Of course I'm happy to help in numerous
> ways, so just let me know what NCUC needs in Singapore.
>
> Thanks for considering my request.  Hope to see you in Singapore!
>
> Best,
> Robin
>
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