[NA-Discuss] NARALO 9th July Teleconference Summary

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Darlene, the money isn't there - a new budget year started 1 July. We  
have to live within the means we have available to us.

As I told you, we could find a way to have a regional meeting at some  
point mid-way-ish between the San Juan meeting and the next NA  
meeting. We can also have an outreach event which brings some of you  
to the LA meeting. We could also have a telephonic meeting which  
allows those not at the LA meeting to attend virtually with those  
that are there. And of course I will once again be working to ensure  
that remote participation works for the other At-large related  
meetings and more of the workshops.

On 10 Jul 2007, at 16:10, Thompson, Darlene wrote:

> Ahhhhhhhh…
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> So, if we saved ICANN the money by not having one (or more) face-to- 
> face meetings for formation and ours chose to save this money for  
> outreach and future planning, then why can this pot not be  
> reallocated?  Obviously the money is there.  Espcially since ICANN  
> has no meeting set up for NA for next fiscal.
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> D
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> Darlene A. Thompson
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> Community Access Program Administrator
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> Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP
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> c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910
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> Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
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> Phone:  (867) 975-6531
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> Fax:  (867) 979-8870
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> dthompson at gov.nu.ca
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> From: Nick Ashton-Hart [mailto:nick.ashton-hart at icann.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:04 AM
> To: Thompson, Darlene
> Cc: NA Discuss
> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] NARALO 9th July Teleconference Summary
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> Darlene, I'm afraid there must be a misunderstanding here.
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> I never said that there was 'plenty of money' to have two meetings  
> at ICANN meetings for the same region back-to-back. I would never  
> say that because it is absolutely not the case.
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> Having a pre-meeting to form a RALO was something money was  
> available for because every other region had had one or more  
> meetings in order to form their RALOs.
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> These are two entirely different things.
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> There has not ever been money for a single region to have two GAs  
> back-to-back.
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> On 10 Jul 2007, at 13:42, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
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> Thank you for posting that, Nick,
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> I was just thinking about the telephone conference last night (in  
> those wasted hours between 3 – 4:00 AM) and something hit me as not  
> making a lot of sense.  Prior to the San Juan meeting, when we were  
> discussing having a pre-formation one-on-one meeting in Vancouver/ 
> Yonkers/Montreal, we were told that there was plenty of money in  
> the budget to do this and to still go to San Juan.  Now we are  
> being told that there isn’t money in the budget to have gone to San  
> Juan and then do further needed outreach in LA.  WTF?  What  
> happened to it?  As we only have about a dozen ALSs in the entire  
> region, I would think that outreach would be as important at this  
> time as formation.  It just really seems like now that we have  
> formed, the plug is being pulled.
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> Or am I being paranoid?
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> D
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> Community Access Program Administrator
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> Department of Education/N-CAP
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> Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
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> Fax:  (867) 979-8870
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