[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]ICANN meetings aren't all major-league gatherings of a thousand or more people. Some are more focused work meetings for a specific part of the ICANN community. Like the regional meetings that ICANN holds twice or three times a year (there's no set rhythm) for registries and registrars.
These are an invaluable opportunity for domain name professionals to meet and talk about the issues that affect them directly. Regional meetings are also a great way to explain to people who might not be familiar with the ICANN process how they can get involved.
For example, it was at the European registrar meeting in 2007 that, having listened to Registrar Constituency chair Jon Nevett give a presentation, I decided that INDOM should become an RC member. Since then, in a little over a year, I've gone from newbie to being involved in the RC Excom as Treasurer and now as the RC's European representative on the GNSO Council. So I'd say I'm living proof that outreach efforts at these regional meetings really do work ?
ICANN obviously thinks so too as they have published the presentations made during the regional meeting we had at the end of January in Rome. This is a first and what looks like an excellent idea so that people who didn't attend may still get a grasp of what goes on during these regional meetings.
As an added personal bonus, one of the presentations being published was the one I gave to explain what being a GNSO Council rep involves and how the Council works ?[/FONT]
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