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

[Fouad Bajwa]

An amendment to my message, I'm still using Amsterdam as the subject
venue but this is now changed to Frankfurt.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> On 21 Oct 2014, at 11:08 am, Lars-Erik.Forsberg at ec.europa.eu wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> 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,
>>
>> Erik
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>> Lars Erik Forsberg
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>> Deputy Head of Unit
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>> lars-erik.forsberg at ec.europa.eu
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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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, 20 October 2014, Grace Abuhamad <grace.abuhamad at icann.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> A few scheduling updates:
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>>
>> Regular Meetings:
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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,
>>
>> Grace
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>>
>> Grace Abuhamad
>>
>> Public Policy Manager
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