[ALAC] [Fwd: Travel Support for At-Large FY 2010]

[Beau Brendler]

I like the general assemblies idea

The summit was a more effective policymaking activity than ALAC, so a similar function should figure prominently in future ALAC ops

-----Original Message-----
>From: Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
>Sent: Jul 30, 2009 3:55 PM
>To: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
>Cc: ALAC Working List <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [ALAC] [Fwd: Travel Support for At-Large FY 2010]
>
>Alan Greenberg wrote:
>> The meeting was not held to decide on the fate of RALOs or their
>> budgets. I was a wrap-up to make sure that the results of the weeks's
>> meetings were followed up on and that there were no omissions in the
>> various "to be done" lists. We asked Kevin and Steve to join us to
>> make sure we understood the current travel situation and tried to
>> cover things to improve the Seoul meeting.
>>
>> I have said in public (probably to you as well as others) that if this
>> is indeed the situation for this budget year, perhaps it is too late
>> to change it, but we still need to try to fix it in future years. I
>> spend quite a while on Saturday morning talking to Kevin about the
>> budget analysis I did last fall, to try to make sure that he
>> understood that this year's At-Large budget is not a continuation of
>> the status-quo, but a cut. (For the record, I did this as the person
>> who had spent the most time on travel budget issues over the last two
>> years, and not as a ExCom member - my discussions predated my taking
>> on that role.) He said he would go home and root around to understand
>> what happened. I plan to talk to him this week to find out if I was
>> successful.
>
>Fair enough. Thanks for the explanation -- though I still think it would
>have helped had there been a wider audience for that session.
>
>What do you think about my idea for biennial general assemblies as a way
>to meet the ICANN budget folks half-way?
>
>- Evan
>
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