Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Face to face meeting

[Ken Stubbs <kstubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Stubbs wrote:

Its even worse than Milton describes.  The currently proposed time slot 
would require many people to leave on Thursday
to insure arrival in time for a Saturday morning meeting.

Brussels is not a very popular European destination city for many of the 
worlds airlines. This necessitates
that most going to the proposed Saturday meeting will have to journey 
thru hubs like Paris, Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, & Madrid to get to 
Brussels.
Anyone looking at timetables can see that the overwhelming # of 
connecting flights from these European hubs will arrive at Brussels 
airport_* "far too late"*_ to make this proposed meeting.
The most considerate time discussed would be Sunday morning (noting here 
that most would still have to leave Friday to make even this meeting on 
a timely basis).


On 4/30/2010 1:47 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> I would agree with Eckhaus, the choice of a time should be given a bit more 
> consideration. Being at a Sat. morning meeting in Brussels, requires people in 
> the U.S. to leave Friday afternoon at the latest, and even those of us in 
> Europe may have been planning to arrive on Saturday and don't want an extra 
> hotel night. Can't you make it Sat afternoon or Sunday morning, at least?
>
>    
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-vi-
> > feb10@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Eckhaus
> > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:52 PM
> > To: 'Mike O'Connor'; Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] Face to face meeting
> >
> >
> > Mikey,
> >
> >
> > Do you know if most of the can make that time either remotely or in
> > person?
> >
> > I am not sure about others but I had already made plans for arrival in
> > Brussels and will be there on Saturday afternoon, so cannot participate
> > either way. This might be the case for many others as they may be in
> > the air at that time
> >
> >
> > Jeff Eckhaus
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-vi-
> > feb10@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike O'Connor
> > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:04 AM
> > To: Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [gnso-vi-feb10] Face to face meeting
> >
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > here's an update on where things are at with assembling face to face.
> > the topic has been on our (Roberto's and my) radar for several weeks
> > and here's a snapshot of where we're at.
> >
> > we think the best opportunity for a face to face gathering is the
> > Saturday morning at the start of the Brussels meeting.  this isn't what
> > we would go for in a perfect world where we had unlimited time, lots of
> > budget and people could get away from their regular jobs.  but it'll
> > have to do.  kinda like consensus decisions -- it's not our favorite
> > solution, but it's the best we can see.
> >
> > so we've asked Glen to schedule us a 9-12 slot on Saturday morning.
> > are some thoughts;
> >
> > -- the WG needs to meet as a group before we present our work to the
> > GNSO Council on Sunday (and before we have our workshop with the
> > broader community on Wednesday)
> >
> > -- Saturday afternoon is scheduled to be a conversation between Kurt
> > and the GNSO about the DAG and we figure there's no way we can compete
> > with that
> >
> > -- the GNSO topics scheduled for Saturday morning aren't quite so
> > crucial, so some Councilors might be able to break way to join us, at
> > least for a while
> >
> > -- we asked for a longer slot because while the WG may not need the
> > whole 3 hours, we think it's easier to shorten the meeting at the last
> > minute than lengthen it
> >
> > -- it's pretty hard to get people to Brussels before Saturday, and also
> > really hard on the conference-scheduling people to support us, so we
> > considered and dropped the idea of meeting on Friday
> >
> > -- we'll provide remote participation for the meeting and will actively
> > use Adobe to run the meeting so that remote participants won't be
> > disadvantaged too much (except with regard to sleep)
> >
> > -- the Sunday GNSO-Council slot will stay the same -- 30-45 minutes --
> > and will be focused on presenting where we are so far and getting
> > Council feedback
> >
> > that concludes my report.  :-)
> >
> > mikey
> >
> >
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