[NA-Discuss] NARALO General Assembly

[Loris Taylor]

Yes.



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Loris Taylor | President & CEO | Native Public Media |  PO Box 3955, Flagstaff, AZ | 86003 | loristaylor1 at icloud.com





> On Jan 26, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks
> 
> 
> Without  out  much debate on the merits of the location or timing  .  My
> question to the community.
> 
> Do you agree that  NARALO  should have  a  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY apart from
> ICANN meetings in the next  fiscal period?   Date and location to be
> determined
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Glenn McKnight
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Thomas Lowenhaupt <toml at communisphere.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I like the idea of focusing on NARALO issues. ICANN meetings seem just too
>> busy for that.
>> 
>> Tom Lowenhaupt
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/26/2015 2:24 AM, Allan Skuce wrote:
>> 
>>> or We could wait til the next year and hold the GA along with the NA
>>> ICANN meeting.
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>>> na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Alan Greenberg <
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>>> To: Glenn McKnight; NA Discuss
>>> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] NARALO General Assembly
>>> 
>>> Although I think that this is a great idea and has the potential for
>>> getting a lot of out NARALO members more informed and possibly
>>> involved with ARIN, there are considerations that may make it difficult.
>>> 
>>> - The ARIN meeting is on Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9.
>>> That is just a few days before the start of the pre-ICANN events for
>>> ICANN 54 in Dublin (and since this is an Annual General Meeting of
>>> ICANN, there tend to be more activities in the week preceding the
>>> formal meeting (October 17-23). It would be difficult to have support
>>> from At-Large Staff and Constituency Travel.
>>> 
>>> - Two other regions have already indicated that they plan to request
>>> a General Assembly (EURALO and AFRALO), so a third one may be a bit
>>> of a hard sell in one budget year. Although potentially the NA GA
>>> could be funded in lieu of another region, the timing above makes
>>> that less likely.
>>> 
>>> - Glenn's note proposes to hold the GA "during" the ARIN meeting. Is
>>> that really what was meant? If the meetings overlap, doesn't that
>>> negate the benefit of holding the two meetings in the same location?
>>> I presumed that the intent was to hold the GA immediately before or
>>> after the ARIN meetings.
>>> 
>>> That being said, if NARALO does make this request, there will need to
>>> be clarity on:
>>> 
>>> - Will you bring the ALS reps in for just the GA, or the ARIN meeting as
>>> well?
>>> - If the latter, this will need the agreement of ARIN that they can
>>> accommodate the additional people.
>>> - If you are expecting funding from ARIN, that will need to be
>>> clarified as well.
>>> - You will need to clearly state what the intent of the GA is, and
>>> what are the expected outcomes.
>>> - In light of the close proximity to the Dublin meeting, it will make
>>> a difference whether you are proposing to have the GA before or after
>>> the ARIN meeting.
>>> 
>>> Alan
>>> 
>>> At 23/01/2015 12:54 PM, Glenn McKnight wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Folks
>>>> 
>>>> It's  this time for the ALAC  Finance and Budget submission  and  the
>>>> deadline is  February 4th, 2015
>>>> 
>>>> One of the ideas  that has  merit is a proposal  to do a  NARALO  General
>>>> Assembly.     This  assembly could be scheduled  during the ARIN meetings
>>>> in Montreal during  early October.    This  will be the first NARALO
>>>> General Assembly and also it's  been 16 months  since  ATLAS 2.  This
>>>> meeting is an Inreach meeting to build capacity.  The session would also
>>>> be  streamed to permit members who could not make the sessions
>>>> 
>>>> This  request would be off season so it would be reasonable and North
>>>> American travel to Montreal isn't that expense including the two ALS''s
>>>> 
>>>> from PR.
>>> 
>>>> Please comment on this idea  to warrant  a submission
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks all
>>>> 
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