[council] Kenya Agenda questions: Saturday Council dinner and Sunday breakfast

Wed Jan 13 21:01:37 UTC 2010

Hi Tim,

I'll try and get that information to the Council as soon as I can.

Stéphane

Le 13 janv. 2010 à 21:51, Tim Ruiz a écrit :

> 
> Thanks Stephane. What/where is the venue for Saturday night that you
> referred to? Will transportation be necessary/provided from the hotel
> and back?
> 
> Tim
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [council] Kenya Agenda questions: Saturday Council dinner
> and Sunday breakfast
> From: Stéphane_Van_Gelder <stephane.vangelder at indom.com>
> Date: Wed, January 13, 2010 1:32 pm
> To: "Mary Wong" <MWong at piercelaw.edu>
> Cc: <council at gnso.icann.org>
> 
> OK, my thanks to all who have commented so far.
> 
> It looks like we have clear support for two sessions being put aside in
> the agenda, one on Sat evening for dinner, one on Sun morning for
> breakfast.
> 
> 
> Glen and I will move forward with this.
> 
> 
> Please note that I am not here going into the specifics of what these
> sessions are for. That is another debate, but one I think we should
> have, especially with reference to the Sunday "gripe" session...
> 
> 
> Stéphane
> 
> Le 13 janv. 2010 à 18:44, Mary Wong a écrit :
> 
> Ditto; and while I'd definitely prefer that the breakfast not be a
> "gripe session", I wouldn't be opposed to a free-flowing discussion
> (which inherently carries the risk of turning into griping, though
> perhaps not too much so while under the guiding hands of our magisterial
> Chair & Vice-Chairs :)
> 
> Cheers
> Mary 
> 
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> Franklin Pierce Law Center
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> USA
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> 
>>>> 
> From: "Terry L Davis, P.E." <tdavis2 at speakeasy.net>To:"'Rosette,
> Kristina'" <krosette at cov.com>, <council at gnso.icann.org>Date: 1/13/2010
> 12:40 PMSubject: RE: [council] Kenya Agenda questions: Saturday Council
> dinner and Sunday breakfast
> 
> Stephane/Glen
> 
> I like both.  The more informal time we have together, the better our
> meetings seem to go.
> 
> Take care
> Terry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Rosette, Kristina
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:21 AM
> To: council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: RE: [council] Kenya Agenda questions: Saturday Council dinner
> and
> Sunday breakfast
> 
> 
> I liked the breakfast and thought it was a good idea (regardless of
> whether
> we use it for an air-clearing exercise).
> 
> K 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Stéphane Van Gelder
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:26 AM
> To: HughesDeb at usa.redcross.org
> Cc: council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [council] Kenya Agenda questions: Saturday Council dinner
> and
> Sunday breakfast
> 
> Thanks Debbie.
> 
> If anyone is opposed to the breakfast, please let either Glen or myself
> know
> as soon as you can.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Stéphane
> 
> Le 13 janv. 2010 à 16:19, <HughesDeb at usa.redcross.org> a écrit :
> 
>> Stéphane,
>> Breakfast and dinner are a great idea!
>> Thanks for working on this.
>> Debbie
>> 
>> 
>> Debra Y. Hughes, Senior Counsel
>> American Red Cross
>> 
>> Office of the General Counsel
>> 2025 E Street, NW
>> Washington, D.C. 20006
>> Phone: (202) 303-5356
>> Fax: (202) 303-0143
>> HughesDeb at usa.redcross.org
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org 
>> [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Stéphane Van Gelder
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:18 AM
>> To: Caroline Greer
>> Cc: council at gnso.icann.org
>> Subject: Re: [council] Kenya Agenda questions: Saturday Council dinner 
>> and Sunday breakfast
>> 
>> Thanks Caroline and Wolf for your quick responses.
>> 
>> To be honest, I think the Sat dinner is a given. We all enjoyed the Seoul
> one and I never heard anyone say we shouldn't do another one. Plus it
> was a
> pay-your-own-way event so really, there shouldn't be much problem with
> this.
>> 
>> Glen has already found a possible venue and I am going to make an
> executive decision ;) to put it on the agenda. If anyone objects within
> the
> next couple of days, we can always look at this again. 
>> 
>> The breakfast is the one I am much less sure of. As a reminder, this was
> kind of intended to be an informal discussion between ourselves to help
> anyone get anything they wanted off their chests. In Seoul, this was
> organised in one of the meeting rooms. Does the Council feel we should
> do
> this again for Kenya?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Stéphane
>> 
>> Le 13 janv. 2010 à 12:56, Caroline Greer a écrit :
>> 
>>> 
>>> Stéphane,
>>> 
>>> Being a 'newbie' to the group, I would welcome any opportunity for an
> informal get-together with colleagues before the meetings proper. 
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Caroline.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org 
>>> [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of KnobenW at telekom.de
>>> Sent: 13 January 2010 11:43
>>> To: stephane.vangelder at indom.com; council at gnso.icann.org
>>> Subject: AW: [council] Kenya Agenda questions: Saturday Council 
>>> dinner and Sunday breakfast
>>> 
>>> Stéphane,
>>> 
>>> I support the dinner which gives more opportunity for unofficisl talks.
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> Wolf-Ulrich
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: owner-council at gnso.icann.org 
>>> [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] Im Auftrag von Stéphane Van 
>>> Gelder
>>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2010 09:01
>>> An: GNSO Council
>>> Betreff: [council] Kenya Agenda questions: Saturday Council dinner 
>>> and Sunday breakfast
>>> 
>>> Dear Councillors,
>>> 
>>> I am currently working with Glen on our agenda for the Kenya meeting.
>>> 
>>> As you may recall, in Seoul we had an unofficial dinner on the meeting's
> first Saturday and there we also a Council breakfast on the following
> Sunday
> morning.
>>> 
>>> For Kenya, the question of these events remains undecided and we are
> therefore not sure whether we should include them in the agenda or not.
> Our
> understanding is that there is broad support within the Council for the
> Saturday dinner, less certain support for the Sunday breakfast.
>>> 
>>> What do people think? Should we plan for both the Saturday dinner and
> Sunday breakfast, one and not the other, none of the above?
>>> 
>>> Stéphane
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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