Thanks to everyone for these, and particularly to Marilyn for taking the lead on these issues once again. I really appreciate your commitment on Outreach and Awareness and in fact this commitment is the reason why I (representing eInstituto) became a BC member, as Marilyn and Chris Chalow recruited me from my first ICANN meeting as a fellow back in Cartagena 2010.

I support this draft. I also agree with Andrew´s comments and input in general, in particular regarding "the ability to measure success (and go back to our members saying we’ve accomplished something tangible with our budget)"

I am sorry I am too busy these days with personal and working commitments that made it difficult for me to engage properly in this effort but I trust Marilyn will be able to work with Chantelle to finish properly. 

Regarding Lawrence´s edits, thanks for the input Lawrence!

I just wanted to say that if CROP funds can actually be used to bring BC members to ICANN meetings, I would rather not take this out of the text, as the case maybe were CROP funds are available and in some cases it might be useful to be able to use the funds for this, so I would rather keep our options open. Not that this would be a priority for us but not to close that door. Sometimes, particularly for new members, it is really hard to get the funds to attend meetings as some new members are still trying to prove the case in their own organizations, and those members need time to engange and get other sources of travel support, if no funds for their attendance is available from their orgs. So any support for BC members attendance that we get, I prefer to be able to use it. Also, BC funds sometimes cover hotel but not airefare or the other way round, and sometimes that might not be enough for some members so this can be used in combination with our funds to help particularly new members from developing countries. 

I also support working with the fellowship program to bring awareness on the relevance of their selection and bringing of more candidates with business background and engaging them with us. 2018 is crucial for the LAC region regarding the location of the 3 meetings, including Barcelona that might attract many latin american companies as well, due to the strong relationship between Spain and Latin America. Also, I believe we should work close with the LAC strategy committee, to achieve more results during 2018 regarding awareness and outreach in my region and in general, that we as BC outreach might benefit from stronger interchange and mutual support with the regional strategies at ICANN in general.

Regarding materials and translation also ICANN staff can help, as at least in Latin America there is a specific ICANN staff member that is in charge of communications (based in Uruguay) and maybe they can help us on their budget to get translation of our so valuable BC materials in order to have them in Spanish at least for the 2018 meetings.

Thanks again to everyone,

Gabi