I have answered the poll - I"d like to attend the day before (Sunday) and would be interested if people are taking trips as well Holly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Shatan" To:"Vanda Scartezini" Cc:"at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" Sent:Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:50:02 +0900 Subject:Re: [At-Large] Moroccan music festival just before the ICANN meeting in Marrakesh I would love to do this! Greg Greg Shatangreg@isoc-ny.org [1] President, ISOC-NY _"The Internet is for everyone"_ On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 4:08 AM Vanda Scartezini wrote: I also travelled with a rented car around whole country and it is quite easy to go from Marrakesh to several points of the country. _VANDA SCARTEZINI_ _POLO CONSULTORES ASSOCIADOS_ _AV. PAULISTA 1159, CJ 1004_ _01311-200- SAO PAULO, SP, BRAZIL_ _LAND LINE: +55 11 3266.6253_ _MOBILE: + 55 11 98181.1464 _ _SORRY FOR ANY TYPOS. _ FROM: At-Large on behalf of Carlos Raul Gutierrez DATE: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 18:01 TO: 'At-Large Worldwide' SUBJECT: Re: [At-Large] Moroccan music festival just before the ICANN meeting in Marrakesh Count me in Roberto. Last time I rented a car in Marrakesh and it was cheap and the roads pretty good! --- Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez carlosraul@gutierrez.se [6] +506 8837 7176 Aparatado 1571-1000 COSTA RICA El 2019-03-11 08:32, Roberto Gaetano escribió: Hi all. We have an excellent opportunity to be exposed to the local musical culture when attending the ICANN meeting in Marrakesh. In Essaouira - close to Marrakesh - the Gnawa Festival (see http://www.essaouira.nu/calendar_festival_gnaoua.htm [7]) 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. 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. 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. Of course, please feel free to forward the Doodle poll url https://doodle.com/poll/f4cq8vwnu56uzws9 [8] 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. Best regards, Roberto _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org [9] https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large [10] At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org [11] _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-listsicann.org [12] https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large [13] At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org [14] Links: ------ [1] mailto:greg@isoc-ny.org [2] mailto:vanda@scartezini.org [3] mailto:at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [4] mailto:carlosraul@gutierrez.se [5] mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org [6] mailto:carlosraul@gutierrez.se [7] http://www.essaouira.nu/calendar_festival_gnaoua.htm [8] https://doodle.com/poll/f4cq8vwnu56uzws9 [9] mailto:At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org [10] https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large [11] http://atlarge.icann.org [12] mailto:At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org [13] https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large [14] http://atlarge.icann.org