Re: [council] Action items from Prague

[William Drake <william.drake@xxxxxx>]

9 am Saturday people may not feel particularly inspired.  wouldn't it be better 
at the end of the day, when we have our accumulated frustrations (oh sorry, 
insights) to share?


On Jul 5, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:

> Thanks for clarifying Bill.
> 
> I would be in favour of the Saturday sessions in Canada starting with 60 
> minutes of "free speech". Yes, this does take 60 minutes away from something 
> else, but we generally do not start until 10am on the Saturday to accommodate 
> any late arrivals, so we could also simply move our start time up.
> 
> Wolf, as meeting planner for Toronto, could you please plan for an open 
> conversation first thing Saturday to start us off?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stéphane Van Gelder
> Directeur Général / General manager
> INDOM Group NBT France
> ----------------
> Registry Relations and Strategy Director
> Group NBT
> 
> Le 5 juil. 2012 à 17:09, William Drake a écrit :
> 
>> Hi Stéphane 
>> 
>> Sorry to confuse with my pidgin English, typing fast.  My "would benefit 
>> ICANN generally, not just GNSO, although this would probably require 
>> reinstating at least Friday morning " was meant to convey that doing 
>> something ICANN-wide, and not just in the GNSO, would probably require 
>> reinstating at least Friday morning.   
>> 
>> That said, Jeff is of course right that if we slip in some free form 
>> dialogue at the front end then we'd have to economize on time elsewhere, and 
>> Wendy is right that slimming or skipping the reports could be a way of doing 
>> that, although perhaps that wouldn't be a universal preference…
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Bill. I don't understand why you suggest that Fridays would need to 
>>> be reinstated for us to be able to start our work weekend with an informal 
>>> discussion session.
>>> 
>>> Could you please elaborate?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Stéphane Van Gelder
>>> Directeur Général / General manager
>>> INDOM Group NBT France
>>> ----------------
>>> Registry Relations and Strategy Director
>>> Group NBT
>>> 
>>> Le 5 juil. 2012 à 07:24, William Drake a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Wrap-up and brain storming discussion
>>>>> Do we want to start the ICANN meeting week with a similar, open ended 
>>>>> discussion, as the one we have during the wrap-up on Thursday?
>>>> 
>>>> As mentioned I think the insertion of some Barcamp/unconference-like time 
>>>> into the agenda would benefit ICANN generally, not just GNSO, although 
>>>> this would probably require reinstating at least Friday morning to allow 
>>>> the regular meetings to get done.  In the meanwhile though, yes starting 
>>>> the Council's week this way would be refreshing.
>>>> 
>>>> Bill
>>> 
>> 
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