Re: [council] L.A. meeting tech ==> cost recovery

[Dennis Jennings <Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie>]

Andrew,

We are willing to pay - but we have no money.  In a formal sense 
we cannot commit to this expense unless it is guaranteed by our 
parent - the ICANN Board.  

However, we considered this at length during our teleconference 
today and we have agreed that we should proceed with the 
Webcast and that we will do everything necessary to raise the 
funding from our constituencies.  We cannot at this time guarantee 
that we will be able to raise the money or when - but our target is 
before the end of this calendar year.

Dennis

Date sent:      	Mon, 04 Oct 1999 21:34:30 -0400
From:           	Andrew McLaughlin <mclaughlin@pobox.com>
Subject:        	[council] L.A. meeting tech ==> cost recovery
To:             	council@dnso.org
Send reply to:  	mclaughlin@pobox.com

> To the Names Council:
> 
> It's time to make decisions about meeting technology for the L.A. DNSO
> meetings.
> 
> My current plan is to hire the Berkman Center team to provide realtime
> multimedia webcasting and remote participation services, as they have done
> in Singapore, Berlin, and Santiago.  The total expected cost for four days
> of services is approximately $27,000 (includes labor (set-up, broadcast, and
> strike), equipment, network connectivity, software licenses, travel, etc.).
> The DNSO will account for at least 40% of the total anticipated broadcast
> airtime.
> 
> In the past, ICANN has subsidized the DNSO's total share of expenses.  Even
> so, the DNSO has not yet reimbursed ICANN for *any* of the webcasting
> expenses incurred in Berlin and Santiago.
> 
> What I need to know from the Names Council is whether the DNSO is willing to
> pay for the Berkman Center's webcasting and remote participation services
> for its Monday constituency and working group meetings (some of them,
> anyway) and Tuesday GA and NC meetings in L.A.  It seems to me that the
> DNSO's fair share of the total cost is at least $8000.
> 
> --Andrew
> 


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