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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello Roberto:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Apologies, since I had to cancel my
'yes' doodle confirmation. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best Regards,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Leah Symekher<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019/04/11 17:48, Roberto Gaetano
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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
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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="" moz-do-not-send="true">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="" moz-do-not-send="true">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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