hi all, here’s an announcement for those of you who missed the pilot session of the “WG Newcomer Open House” and would like to attend — we’re going to have one once a month until people get tired of them. :-) mikey

http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-28jan14-en.htm

Continuation of GNSO WG Newcomer Open House Sessions

Following a successful GNSO WG Newcomer Open House session pilot session in December of last year, we would like to continue with these sessions to allow for new GNSO WG participants to come together and ask any questions they may have about GNSO Working Groups, procedures and/or processes. We know there is a lot of information to digest when you join a GNSO Working Group and would like to offer this opportunity to come together, talk and answer any questions you may have.

To allow for maximum participation in these calls, the proposed schedule is as follows:

Thursday 6 February at 12.00 UTC Thursday 6 March at 20.00 UTC Thursday 3 April at 12.00 UTC Thursday 1 May at 20.00 UTC Thursday 5 June at 12.00 UTC Thursday 3 July at 20.00 UTC Thursday 7 August at 12.00 UTC Thursday 4 September at 20.00 UTC Thursday 2 October at 12.00 UTC Thursday 6 November at 20.00 UTC Thursday 4 December at 12.00 UTC

To convert to your local time zone, please see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html.

If you are interested to join the next meeting on 6 February or any of the future meetings, please let the GNSO Secretariat know (gnso-secs@icann.org) and they will send you the call details. If there are any specific questions you already have, or any overviews or introductions you think would be helpful (e.g. GNSO Policy Development Process or GNSO Working Group guidelines), please let us know in advance and we will prepare materials accordingly. Feel free to share this invitation with others that you think may be interested.

We look forward to welcoming you at the next meeting!

Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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