<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Roberto<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was planning to attend for one day - arrive ing a day early and then taking up the offer of a drive there and back</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Holly<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 12, 2019, at 10:48 AM, Roberto Gaetano <<a href="mailto:roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com" class="">roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Folks,
<div class="">As of today only few people have replied to the Doodle poll.</div>
<div class="">We are approaching the moment in which a decision has to be made about renting transportation from Marrakesh to Essaouira and back, and if there is not a sufficient number of participants a bus would not be an economically viable solution.</div>
<div class="">So please reply to the poll if you plan to join.</div>
<div class="">Please feel free to forward this email further, for instance to other ALAC Regional mailing lists.</div>
<div class="">Cheers,</div>
<div class="">Roberto<br class="">
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<div class="">On 11.03.2019, at 15:32, Roberto Gaetano <<a href="mailto:roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com" class="">roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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Hi all.
<div class="">We have an excellent opportunity to be exposed to the local musical culture when attending the ICANN meeting in Marrakesh.</div>
<div class="">In Essaouira - close to Marrakesh - the Gnawa Festival (see <a href="http://www.essaouira.nu/calendar_festival_gnaoua.htm" class="">http://www.essaouira.nu/calendar_festival_gnaoua.htm</a>) will take place from 20 to 23 June. The ICANN meeting
will start officially on the 24 June - but some activities are likely to start earlier.</div>
<div class="">Aziz Hilali, whom we all know, told me that it would be possible to organise day trips from Marrakesh to Essaouira to allow people to go there for the festival. The reason why we strongly recommend day trips from Marrakesh is twofold: people who
want to attend only one day can do so without changing hotel and, last but not least, it will be extremely difficult to get a hotel in Essaouira during the festival. As a matter of fact, having had myself difficulties in finding accommodation in Essaouira
off-season I can well believe that for these hot dates the place will be fully booked already now, three months in advance.</div>
<div class="">Anyway, long story short, I have prepared a Doodle poll and ask you to fill in your preferred dates should you be willing and able to join this initiative. Based on the response, busses could be organised for the popular dates. We need to have
a first idea about whether there is enough interest - if this is the case, we can go to the next step: Aziz will announce this option when presenting ICANN 65 later this week and we can start making concrete plans, including scheduling the arrival date accordingly.</div>
<div class="">Of course, please feel free to forward the Doodle poll url <a href="https://doodle.com/poll/f4cq8vwnu56uzws9" class="">https://doodle.com/poll/f4cq8vwnu56uzws9</a> to your other communities and stakeholder groups. If anybody is not comfortable
to put their names in the Doodle page - where all participants to the poll can read them - please feel free to email me directly mentioning the possible dates of interest.</div>
<div class="">Best regards,</div>
<div class="">Roberto</div>
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