[council] Wellington good news

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Subject:
ICANN Wellington
From:
"Keith Davidson" <exe.dir at internetnz.net.nz>
Date:
Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:35:51 -0800


All,

Pardon this intrusion, but I thought it might be useful to advise you 
all my plans regarding some social aspects of the Wellington ICANN 
meeting...

As you are all aware, ICANN attendees are scattered around 7 hotels in
Wellington. I have been concerned that the ICANN attendees will 
therefore tend to drift to their various hotels, and therefore we run 
the risk of missing out on much of the usual social interaction.

I have therefore organised a bar, around 100 metres away from the 
conference venue, which will be renamed the ICANN bar for the week. I 
have a number of sponsors aligned to provide a "happy hour" at the ICANN 
bar from around 5pm to 7pm each night from Sunday 26th. There will be 
free beer and wine for the duration of the "happy hour". We will run a 
theme each night, for each of the sponsors and there will be some little 
prizes for attendees etc etc.

Pre-printed invitations to the Happy Hours will be included in the 
delegates packs at registration, and we'll get details on the website 
soon also. The location of the ICANN Bar is also shown on the map given 
to delegates.

InternetNZ people will be hovering around the exit doors of the 
Convention Centre from around 5pm each evening and offering to escort 
people to the ICANN bar.

I am hopeful that you all might assist me by encouraging as much of the
ICANN crowd together each night at the ICANN Bar, and therefore ensuring 
the geographical spread of hotels does not lead to a lack of opportunity 
for all to mix and mingle?

Regards

Keith Davidson
Executive Director - InternetNZ

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