<div dir="ltr">Agree with Don, I think we should go for it.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Don Hollander <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org" target="_blank">don.hollander@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Here’s my take on the Hackathon idea @ ICANN55:<div><br></div><div>1) ICANN is a technology conference and there would be few technology conferences of its size held in the region. </div><div>2) I note that ICANN is generally around policies, but there are still a lot of geeks there</div><div>3) Some of the folks within ICANN see a Hackathon as an opportunity to raise awareness about ICT generally and provide a focal point for software engineers specifically in the country/region.</div><div>4) If this happens, there will be a lot of work to do - because few of us have explicit Hackathon experience, and none, I believe, will have Hackathon experience in Morocco.</div><div>5) That said, it would be a nice place to pilot such an activity - and possibly get some results out from it.</div><div>6) The next two ICANN meetings are also in what I would call developing ICT communities - Panama and San Juan. </div><div><br></div><div>So, while there may be better venues for more productive results, working to develop a Hackathon in Morocco in conjunction with ICANN55 would be a good thing - for the local ICT community for sure and for UA and for the global geekdom.</div><div><br></div><div>My suggestion is that we agree to proceed to the next step with the folks at ICANN and see what they need from us. Is it technical skills? Is it prizes? T-Shirts? Mentors? </div><div><br></div><div>Your thoughts…</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Don</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 7/11/2015, at 1:40 PM, Edmon Chung <<a href="mailto:edmon@registry.asia" target="_blank">edmon@registry.asia</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">IETF sounds like a more appropriate venue.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">They already do organize one:<span> </span><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/94/agenda.html" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/94/agenda.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Edmon<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a name="150f8dc887b1cb39__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></a></div><div style="border-style:none none none solid;border-left-color:blue;border-left-width:1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt"><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext"><span> </span><a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a><span> </span>[<a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Dusan Stojicevic<br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Saturday, November 7, 2015 7:19 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ua-discuss@icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55<u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Dear all,<br><br><br>Every event can be a place for Hackathon. There are Hackathons as a side events on school, scientific and education events, on fairs... even as a standalone events.<br>Crucial questions are:<br>1. Can we gather programmers on this Hackathon?<br>It's rather easy to organize Hackathon on IETF meetings... but on ICANN meeting? Don't expect to find programmers among participants of ICANN meetings. We could have some locals, but we need to invest money to bring them there (travel and accommodation support at least). How much is that, roughly? <span> </span><br>2. If we do so, Hackathon will be side event and first of this kind on ICANN meetings. This fact can trigger huge interest among ICANN participants, if we do good work with PR (especially announcing event). Let say - we can handle that well. But - we better have something useful as a result of this Hackathon (good apps or whatever), or it will be complete fiasco. Empty story in PR sense. And right to left writings in Maroko, this is nice idea. So, we need GOOOD programers (money), GOOOD PR campaign (money) and GOOOD results (depends on the money spent on first two things in sentence). And the real question is> How much money we need for this and will ICANN this amount of money?<br><br>If they want to pay all that - let's have Hackathon, I am in and volunteering to help.<br>(Every problem can be solved with the money. If the problem cannot be solved with the money, it can be solved with large amount of money ;) )<br><br>My two cents<br>Dusan<span> </span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">On 6.11.2015 19:02, Mark Svancarek wrote:<u></u><u></u></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt" type="cite"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Marrakech as a city for a hackathon makes sense to me, but ICANN 55 as a venue does not.</span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span>Rubens Kuhl [<a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mailto:rubensk@nic.br</a>]<span> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Friday, November 6, 2015 9:50 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span>Mark Svancarek<br><b>Cc:</b><span> </span>Richard Merdinger; Ram Mohan; Don Hollander;<span> </span><a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">UA-discuss@icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Rubens<u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt" type="cite"><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Em 6 de nov de 2015, à(s) 15:41:000, Mark Svancarek <<a href="mailto:marksv@microsoft.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">marksv@microsoft.com</a>> escreveu:<u></u><u></u></div></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I do like the idea of a hackathon, but not at ICANN. These might have been better:</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="http://opensourcebridge.org/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://opensourcebridge.org/</a></span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-2015" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-2015</a></span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">or</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="http://businessofsoftware.org/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://businessofsoftware.org/</a></span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">or</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="https://www.gala-global.org/conference/gala-annual-conference-2016" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.gala-global.org/conference/gala-annual-conference-2016</a></span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">or</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">…?</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a><span> </span>[<a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Richard Merdinger<br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Friday, November 6, 2015 8:56 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span>Ram Mohan; Don Hollander;<span> </span><a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">UA-discuss@icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">All,</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Thoughts always appreciated,</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">--Rich</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Richard Merdinger</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">VP, Domains – GoDaddy</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">e:<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="mailto:rmerdinger@godaddy.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">rmerdinger@godaddy.com</a></span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">s: richard.merdinger</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a></span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">[</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Ram Mohan<br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Friday, November 06, 2015 10:29 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span>Don Hollander <<a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">don.hollander@icann.org</span></a>>;<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">UA-discuss@icann.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The probability of success will increase if co-located with a more developer friendly meeting, or in a University setting.</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">-Ram</span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Don Hollander [mailto:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">don.hollander@icann.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">]<span> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Friday, November 06, 2015 12:09 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">UA-discuss@icann.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ICANN, through Cyrus Namazi, has raised the idea of supporting a “Hackathon” in conjunction with ICANN55 in Morocco.</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A “Hackathon” is where a bunch of geeks gather for a short period of time – one or two days – and code to solve problems.</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At the UA Discuss call yesterday there was strong interest in supporting such an event, but we ran out of time to reach any meaningful conclusion.</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">So, this thread is to instigate discussion, ideas, and volunteers to help drive it forward.</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Your thoughts, please….</span><u></u><u></u></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <u></u><u></u></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:center"><hr size="1" width="99%" noshade align="center" style="color:rgb(144,144,144)"></div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 11.25pt 0cm 6pt"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" src="http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png" alt="Avast logo"></span></a><u></u><u></u></div></td><td style="padding:0.75pt"><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(61,77,90)">Ova e-pošta je provjerena na viruse Avast protuvirusnim programom.<span> </span><br><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.avast.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><div style="min-width:960px;min-height:82px;line-height:18px;margin:6px 0px;padding:8px;border-top-width:1px;border-top-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-top-style:dotted;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-bottom-style:dotted;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="http://www.donuts.domains" title="donuts.domains" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.donuts.domains/images/D-99x124.png" alt="Donuts Inc." width="37" height="54" style="float:left;padding:2px 6px 0px 0px;border:none"></a><div style="padding:6px 0px 0px"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Elaine Pruis</strong>, Vice President, Operations</span><br><strong><a href="http://www.donuts.domains" title="donuts.domains" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">Donuts Inc.</a></strong><br>10500 NE 8th Street, Suite 350, Bellevue Washington, 98004, U.S.A. | Telephone: 509.899.3161<br><a href="https://twitter.com/DonutsInc" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.donuts.domains/images/social_twitter_box_white_512.png" alt="Twitter" width="30" height="30" style="float:left;margin:2px 4px 0px 0px;border:none"></a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/donutstlds" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.donuts.domains/images/social_facebook_box_white_512.png" alt="Facebook" width="30" height="30" style="float:left;margin:2px 4px 0px 0px;border:none"></a><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/donuts-inc-" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.donuts.domains/images/social_linkedin_box_white_512.png" alt="Linked In" width="30" height="30" style="float:left;margin:2px 4px 0px 0px;border:none"></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"> </span><br></div></div>
</div>