Patrick, you've declared your intent to be a registry operator (.sport), yet you see no conflict of interest in claiming to represent the at-large? I'm sure that you'll put in lots of hours in defense of a commercial effort and likely won't partake of tourism to the same degree as the others. With regard to evidence, you are as capable of using Google as anyone. Feel free to cite the hundreds of ALS citations pointing to this historic announcement. Frankly, I don't see how ALS representatives could be any more demotivated than they are at the moment -- they've done next to nothing for the at-large so far, and I fully expect the trend to continue. It's no wonder that the Board ignores all the ALAC statements. --- On Fri, 9/25/09, Patrick Vande Walle <patrick@vande-walle.eu> wrote:
From: Patrick Vande Walle <patrick@vande-walle.eu> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Travel Funding To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Friday, September 25, 2009, 9:12 AM On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:22:21 -0700 (PDT), Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> wrote:
It's just another ho-hum moment for those non-commercial organizations that are pretending to be the at-large in exchange for travel funding to ICANN sessions.
Oh yes. We are tourists. We have heard that a zillion times before. Be aware though that ALSes do not travel regularly on ICANN budget. And when they do, they work from 7am to 8pm pro bono. Like ALAC members and RALO chairs BTW. We even have ALSes travelling on their own budget.
Have we seen any notices posted at the local level about the upcoming at-Large director appointment? Of course not. ALS representatives can't be bothered to inform their own local communities.
Do you have any evidence of that ? Did you check each ALSes mailing lists, evetn the closed ones, attend their local meetings, etc ?
The whole process is a sham and always has been.
We know your opinion, Danny. You have voiced it time and time again. Can we now use these volunteers' time and bandwidth for something more useful than bashing and demotivating them ?
Thank you.
Patrick
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