Hi Keith, Thanks for the great idea. I am in for 'assisting' you to encourage ICANN crowd to gather. Besides, I am hoping that our wine selection will include the world acclaimed New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. This is what Oz Clarke summed up the impact of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc in his Wine Atlas when he wrote, *"No previous wine had shocked, thrilled, entranced the world before with such brash, unexpected flavours of gooseberries, passionfruit and lime, or crunchy green asparagus spears . . . an entirely new, brilliantly successful wine style that the rest of the world has been attempting to copy ever since".* Congratulations! Look forward to be there! Sophia On 16/03/06, GNSO.SECRETARIAT@GNSO.ICANN.ORG < gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> wrote:
Subject: ICANN Wellington From: "Keith Davidson" <exe.dir@internetnz.net.nz> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:35:51 -0800
All,
Pardon this intrusion, but I thought it might be useful to advise you all my plans regarding some social aspects of the Wellington ICANN meeting...
As you are all aware, ICANN attendees are scattered around 7 hotels in Wellington. I have been concerned that the ICANN attendees will therefore tend to drift to their various hotels, and therefore we run the risk of missing out on much of the usual social interaction.
I have therefore organised a bar, around 100 metres away from the conference venue, which will be renamed the ICANN bar for the week. I have a number of sponsors aligned to provide a "happy hour" at the ICANN bar from around 5pm to 7pm each night from Sunday 26th. There will be free beer and wine for the duration of the "happy hour". We will run a theme each night, for each of the sponsors and there will be some little prizes for attendees etc etc.
Pre-printed invitations to the Happy Hours will be included in the delegates packs at registration, and we'll get details on the website soon also. The location of the ICANN Bar is also shown on the map given to delegates.
InternetNZ people will be hovering around the exit doors of the Convention Centre from around 5pm each evening and offering to escort people to the ICANN bar.
I am hopeful that you all might assist me by encouraging as much of the ICANN crowd together each night at the ICANN Bar, and therefore ensuring the geographical spread of hotels does not lead to a lack of opportunity for all to mix and mingle?
Regards
Keith Davidson Executive Director - InternetNZ
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