[At-Large] At-Large Summit update

[Izumi AIZU]

Hi,
I am on the road and not have much time to devote online,
I just like to express my support to the Summit, and we need
to solicit more supports from all ALSs to demonstrate that
the interest exists strongly.

izumi

2007/10/6, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>:
> Hi Adam,
> > The summit is a great idea. Agree with Ross, it's not something to
> > let drop. But I'm also not well up on events so far, what's been
> > planned and discussed and what's not.
> >
> The details that have been done to date are on the ICANNWiki at
> http://www.icannwiki.org/index.php/At-Large_Global_Summit
> and something resembling a summit outline is at
> http://www.icannwiki.org/index.php/ICANN_Ensemble
>
>
> > How many people might be expected to attend?  How many parallel
> > sessions (i.e. how many rooms for how many people for how many days.)
> >
> The original plan was for one person per ALS to be funded.
> After staff objected on a number of levels, we suggested that
> it may be reasonable to only fund delegates from ALSs which
> had demonstrated they had done at least minimal
> preparatory work to familiarize themselves with relevant issues.
>
> > What's ICANN's and the ALAC's budget cycle?  The only ICANN
> > organization I've worked with closely is the NomCom, and budget for
> > that runs July to July.  How would something the Summit get into the
> > budget planning process?
> >
> ICANN staff have repeatedly refused any budget related
> inquiries.
>
> > If not Paris then the next stop would be somewhere in Africa, which
> > makes travel more expensive (less of a hub.)  After that Latin
> > America, Asia Pacific and Europe as the three meetings for 2009.
> >
> Indeed, one of our considerations for holding it at the Paris
> event was the city's status as a major airline hub, meaning that
> holding a summit there would be far less expensive than at
> most other cities (indeed, how many African delegates would
> need to fly through Paris to anywhere else?)
>
> Asia Pacific is only suitable if the meeting is in a major hub such as
> Hong Kong or Singapore, and even then would be more expensive
> for travel overall compared to a major city in Europe or North
> America. This essentially means that, if Paris doesn't work the next
> opportunity to _economically_ stage a Summit would be late 2009.
>
> - Evan
>
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