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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 6, 2015 9:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mark Svancarek<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Richard Merdinger; Ram Mohan; Don Hollander; UA-discuss@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That depends on target mission; if the Hackathon goal would be to develop or fix software for right-to-left scripts like Arabic, Marrakech sounds like a good place. If it's something more generic like new gTLDs acceptance, then not.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Em 6 de nov de 2015, à(s) 15:41:000, Mark Svancarek <<a href="mailto:marksv@microsoft.com">marksv@microsoft.com</a>> escreveu:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I do like the idea of a hackathon, but not at ICANN. These might have been better:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org">ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>
[<a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Richard Merdinger<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, November 6, 2015 8:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ram Mohan; Don Hollander; <a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org">
UA-discuss@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Unfortunately, I agree with Ram here. I want to get excited about how we can accomplish such an event that will achieve some “needle-moving” results. That said,
I’m not sure what we would be “hacking” on yet. Also agree on the question of ICANN as an event being thee right location for such an effort once-defined.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I suggest we not rush this concept, but continue to have ongoing open discussion regarding it as part of the combined UASG project teams with a goal of defining
the event concept by Marrakech.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thoughts always appreciated,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">e:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rmerdinger@godaddy.com"><span style="color:#954F72">rmerdinger@godaddy.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org"><span style="color:#954F72">ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org"><span style="color:#954F72">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, November 06, 2015 10:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Don Hollander <<a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org"><span style="color:#954F72">don.hollander@icann.org</span></a>>;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org"><span style="color:#954F72">UA-discuss@icann.org</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’m skeptical of the success of a hackathon in Marrakesh, or indeed at an ICANN meeting. It needs developers, not policy people to make it successful.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Don
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, November 06, 2015 12:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org"><span style="color:#954F72">UA-discuss@icann.org</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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