[council] Invitation for 2018/2019 GNSO Councilors to 2019 Strategic Planning Session

Maxim Alzoba m.alzoba at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 13:54:05 UTC 2018


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Maxim Alzoba, 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my typos.

On 7 September 2018 15:10:49 GMT+03:00, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele at blacknight.com> wrote:
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>It definitely helps with travel planning
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>From: council <council-bounces at gnso.icann.org> on behalf of Ayden
>Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
>Reply-To: Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
>Date: Friday 7 September 2018 at 10:10
>To: Heather Forrest <haforrestesq at gmail.com>, Flip Petillion
><fpetillion at petillion.law>, Maxim Alzoba <m.alzoba at gmail.com>, Scott
>McCormick <smccormick at kvantcorp.com>, "elsa.saade at gmail.com"
><elsa.saade at gmail.com>, GNSO Council List <council at gnso.icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [council] Invitation for 2018/2019 GNSO Councilors to 2019
>Strategic Planning Session
>
>Thank you for sharing this, Heather, and for confirming the dates well
>in advance. I do appreciate this. And I am pleased to hear that this
>meeting will stretch for three days now. That was a good length this
>year.
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>Best wishes,
>
>Ayden Férdeline
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>On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:59, Heather Forrest
><haforrestesq at gmail.com<mailto:haforrestesq at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>Dear 2018/19 GNSO Councilors,
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>We are very pleased to inform you that the FY19 Additional Budget
>Request for the GNSO Council Strategic Planning Session has been
>accepted for a 2-day face-to-face meeting. It has been decided to
>combine the Strategic Planning Session with the annual provision for a
>GNSO Council Development day. The latter is traditionally scheduled in
>conjunction with the Annual General Meeting, but as this extends an
>already lengthy public meeting, it will be moved to January 2019.  This
>allows for a 3-day face-to-face meeting in January 2019 to allow the
>GNSO Council to induce new Council members and to conduct a focused and
>dedicated strategic planning session in order to develop a work plan
>for the year ahead and beyond, factoring in the existing workload as
>well as new and ongoing initiatives (such as PDP 3.0). Our efforts in
>January 2018 to catalogue all ongoing projects (the "scary
>spreadsheet") and discuss budget priorities have quickly become a model
>for other SO/ACs; we have here an invaluable opportunity in this
>upcoming 2019 session to improve upon our inaugural SPS and take even
>bigger steps towards making the work of the Council more efficient and
>effective.
>
>To maximize the funding received, the Strategic Planning Session will
>be held from Wednesday 23rd  to Friday 25th January 2019, not including
>travel, at the ICANN office in Los Angeles.
>
>One of the requirements of the pilot program is that the session be
>based at an ICANN office location for logistical and financial
>purposes. Full travel support (i.e., airfare, hotel) will be provided
>to all 21 GNSO Councilors (2018/2019 Council members) as well as the
>GNSO Liaison to the GAC. Meeting space as well as AV support will of
>course be provided, as well as GNSO Support staff for
>facilitation.Further details will be circulated shortly with
>information about travel.
>
>We hope that all incoming/continuing Councilors will prioritise this
>special opportunity to come together as a new Council, set priorities,
>and work out strategies for delivering upon and communicating these to
>the wider ICANN community.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, Rafik Dammak


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