Re: [ga] Re: [announce] NC telecon 16 August 2001 - agenda

[Eric Dierker <eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

Dear Kristy,

Please go to ICANN home page and look from there for the budget and the structure
of ICANN.  What you say is true but there is not one dime nor one position
allocated for what you say.

I have only seen a few hundred models in print, but I have never seen a real
non-profit organization without the structure and allocations for fund
raising/grant writing/foundation liaisons or Economic Development.

Now you can do it with independent development groups and they take a percentage
of the donations or sponsorships or grants.  But who in their right minds would
spend their effort raising funds here when they could raise them for something
fairly charitable or at least artistic or medicinal or educational or .....?
Remember the clock is ticking toward IRS review of non-profit status and our
percentages of donation to fee based finance is really not in fiscal health unless
of course Versign is simply donating.

Sincerely,
Eric

Kristy McKee wrote:

> "They" should at least gain sponsorship from local vendors in advance of
> these meetings... and give some smaller business the opportunity to too
> their own horn if they can't get one of the larger businesses to set it up.
>
> ~k
>
> At 07:07 AM 8/1/2001 -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > > From: k@widgital.com [mailto:k@widgital.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:54 AM
> >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > >   3. The NC will not be webcast due to budget constraints.
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Another year goes by with millions of people video
> > > conferencing and not one
> > > DNSO meeting can.  Makes one wonder what "budget constraints"
> > > really refers to.
> >
> >It's corporate-speak for "we don't want to spend the money." Note that, it
> >is a far cry from "we don't have the money to spend" (maybe true, for DNSO).
> >
> > > Could someone please send a book of commonly misused
> > > words and word
> > > combinations by the DNSO and ICANN to explain what words like "budget
> > > constraints" mean according to their definition.
> >
> >Since DNSO funding comes from ICANN, DNSO doesn't have it, but ICANN does.
> >
> > > According to all the dictionaries I have checked out it means the DNSO can
> >not
> > > afford video conferencing which we all know is a bunch of bologna.
> > >
> > > :)
> >
> >Since video conferncing is one of those things where costs scale up with
> >service, there may be an issue here. But, ICANN doesn't have to pay union
> >scale, so what's the problem? Any video is better than no video.
> >
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