For clarification only...... What is the purpose of the LA meeting? Regardless if 2 meetings were planned in the same region back to back, I think it appropriate for NARALO to meet at that time, rather than wait - I'm guessing out of memory - 2 years before the next NA meeting. Randy Glass A@L On 7/10/07, Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart@icann.org> wrote:

Darlene, the money isn't there - a new budget year started 1 July. We have to live within the means we have available to us. As I told you, we could find a way to have a regional meeting at some point mid-way-ish between the San Juan meeting and the next NA meeting. We can also have an outreach event which brings some of you to the LA meeting. We could also have a telephonic meeting which allows those not at the LA meeting to attend virtually with those that are there. And of course I will once again be working to ensure that remote participation works for the other At-large related meetings and more of the workshops. On 10 Jul 2007, at 16:10, Thompson, Darlene wrote:

Ahhhhhhhh…

So, if we saved ICANN the money by not having one (or more) face-to-face meetings for formation and ours chose to save this money for outreach and future planning, then why can this pot not be reallocated? Obviously the money is there. Espcially since ICANN has no meeting set up for NA for next fiscal.

D

Darlene A. Thompson

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Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP

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Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0

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*From:* Nick Ashton-Hart [mailto:nick.ashton-hart@icann.org<nick.ashton-hart@icann.org>]

*Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:04 AM *To:* Thompson, Darlene *Cc:* NA Discuss *Subject:* Re: [NA-Discuss] NARALO 9th July Teleconference Summary

Darlene, I'm afraid there must be a misunderstanding here.

I never said that there was 'plenty of money' to have two meetings at ICANN meetings for the same region back-to-back. I would never say that because it is absolutely not the case.

Having a pre-meeting to form a RALO was something money was available for because every other region had had one or more meetings in order to form their RALOs.

These are two entirely different things.

There has not ever been money for a single region to have two GAs back-to-back.

On 10 Jul 2007, at 13:42, Thompson, Darlene wrote:

Thank you for posting that, Nick,

I was just thinking about the telephone conference last night (in those wasted hours between 3 – 4:00 AM) and something hit me as not making a lot of sense. Prior to the San Juan meeting, when we were discussing having a pre-formation one-on-one meeting in Vancouver/Yonkers/Montreal, we were told that there was plenty of money in the budget to do this and to still go to San Juan. Now we are being told that there isn't money in the budget to have gone to San Juan and then do further needed outreach in LA. WTF? What happened to it? As we only have about a dozen ALSs in the entire region, I would think that outreach would be as important at this time as formation. It just really seems like now that we have formed, the plug is being pulled.

Or am I being paranoid?

D

Community Access Program Administrator

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