[CWG-Stewardship] Scheduling: regular teleconference meetings + F2F in November

[Fouad Bajwa]

Since it is appropriate at this very moment in time, what is the
consensus on who are the 19 members to attend the Amsterdam F2F?

If I were to make a visa application, I will have to do so within the
next 5 days ASAP with ICANN travel support letters/invitations
provided. There is a three week visa acquisition period, and trust me,
all my schengen visa requests have taken anything between 2-3 weeks
not to mention an accurate 3 week visa time period for the ICANN
London Meeting.

How are we supposedly setting the selection parameters so far? I may
have missed this part during todays call but I am unable to recall if
this discussion actually happened? Is it a black box selection?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Bilal Titi <bilal-titi at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Waiting for the applications.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 21 Oct 2014, at 11:08 am, Lars-Erik.Forsberg at ec.europa.eu wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I understand your frustration about the visa procedures in the EU. It is
> sometimes very cumbersome and unfortunately too often varies from  EU member
> state to another. I do believe though that the Netherlands is probably among
> the quicker EU MS to issue a visa to the Schengen area. I copy the Dutch GAC
> representative Thomas who I hope will be able to help us out to see that the
> applications are handled expeditiously.
> Best regards,
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> Erik
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> Lars Erik Forsberg
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> From: cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org
> [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Fouad Bajwa
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:12 AM
> To: Grace Abuhamad
> Cc: cwg-stewardship at icann.org
> Subject: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Scheduling: regular teleconference meetings +
> F2F in November
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> One thing that is insensitive is the venue of an Amsterdam f2f meeting.
> There is no indication of diversity and distribution of the 19 members to be
> allowed. We developing country people cannot just fly into EU countries like
> our US and EU colleagues. The f2f meetings should have taken place in
> countries like Dubai, Turkey etc, where visa acquisition is much easier.
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> On Monday, 20 October 2014, Grace Abuhamad <grace.abuhamad at icann.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> A few scheduling updates:
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> Regular Meetings:
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> We have a very large and geographically diverse CWG. Going forward, we'll
> have regular weekly 2h calls on Thursdays. To cover all the timezones, I'd
> like to suggest alternating 10:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC. This is early for our
> participants in the Americas, but more reasonable for the majority of our
> group based in Europe, Africa, and Asia. As always, calls will be recorded
> and transcribed.
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> Face-to-face Meeting:
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> In addition, at the request of the Chairs, ICANN has offered to support a
> 2-day face-to-face meeting in Amsterdam on 19-20 November 2014. ICANN will
> offer travel support to the 19 CWG members only, but the meeting will be
> open to anyone in the CWG who wishes to attend in person (at their own
> expense).
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> The meeting will be webcast live through Adobe Connect and include remote
> participation capabilities consistent with the CWG meetings to date. The
> meeting will be recorded and transcribed.
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> In order for ICANN to plan for adequate space, please let me know by next
> Monday (27 October 2014) whether or not you plan to attend the CWG F2F
> meeting in Amsterdam.
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> For members seeking travel support, please note that, the meeting will be
> consistent with ICANN’s Community Travel Support Guidelines: travel needs to
> be arranged by ICANN; ICANN will only book and pay for a non-refundable,
> lowest logical price airfare, and economy airfare;  hotel room and tax must
> be booked directly by ICANN in accordance with the authorized arrival and
> departure dates for each supported traveler.
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> Please let me know if you have any questions,
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> Grace
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> Grace Abuhamad
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