RE: [ga] Funding of ICANN Board candidate travel expenses

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

|> From: Joop Teernstra [mailto:terastra@terabytz.co.nz]
|> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 4:49 PM
|> 
|> At 08:51 20/08/01 -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
|> >The point is that there has been small local participation 
|> in such things.
|> 
|> That could be changed, if there was a strong will to change 
|> it. Local 
|> participation is the justification for far-flung ICANN 
|> meetings. Local 
|> organizers will need all the help they can get.
|> 
|> >Coming down from the SF Bay Area, for MdR, I spent over 
|> $3000. Analysis of
|> >Stockholm forcated expenses yields a similar number. My 
|> larger issue is loss
|> >of 1.5 weeks of billing, a constant for all ICANN meetings, 
|> with very
|> >little/none probable effect on new business or positive 
|> effect on revenue.
|> 
|> That is the larger expense that is rarely talked about by 
|> participants who 
|> do not face such revenue loss.
|> It needs to be recognized.

If we could charge-off the time as a charitable expense, it would help.
ICANN *is* a non-profit, after all...
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