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

["Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>]

Wow! $ 3,000 for MdR and you started in san francisco.

I started in Virgin islands- air fare, about $ 900.00, hotel $ 150 /
day, meals $ 50 a day, overall less than $ 2,000!

As for "opportunity cost", well, we all choose to do this service,
which, ultimately is "pro bono" for our time.

That is a part of what we "put back" into the Internet community.

Do you agree?  Or not ?

Peter de Blanc

-----Original Message-----
From: Roeland Meyer [mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:51 AM
To: 'Roberto Gaetano'; jefsey@wanadoo.fr; pdeblanc@usvi.net
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [ga] Funding of ICANN Board candidate travel expenses


The point is that there has been small local participation in such
things. 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. JavaOne was more beneficial to MHSC core
business then MdR, or any other ICANN meeting.

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Roberto Gaetano [mailto:ga_list@hotmail.com]
|> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 8:25 AM
|> 
|> Jefsey,
|> >
|> >I would be really interested if we added all the travel
|> expenses by ICANN
|> >meeting attendees over one year and compared with what they
|> would have been
|> >should all the meetings have been held in MdR.
|> 
|> I understand that for you MdR could be more convenient, but
|> probably most 
|> Uruguayans would find Montevideo less expensive....
|> Roberto

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