[chapter-delegates] Congrats to Gene and Marty

[Ramon Morales]

All,
I wish to express my deepest gratitude to Gene Gaines and Marty Burach for
making for organizing such a terrific event in honor of Vint and Bob and for
having the foresight to create access to the chapters to participate in this
event. The conference call bridge was a brilliant idea as well as reading
the chapters' emails during the evening. 

When I joined the conference call, I was able to catch most of Lynn's
statement which were heartfelt and delivered beautifully, setting the tone
and temper for the evening.

I stayed on-line for about 30 minutes and the spirit of the event came
through loud and clear. It was as much celebratory as it was highly
educational. I learned things that only through oral anecdotal expressions
from those that lived this history could we come to know.

I want to encourage the chapters to take the example of DCISOC and to create
more opportunities of the type that Gene, Marty, Andreu and others are doing
to show that we at the global and at the chapter level have the commitment
to the dream of Bob and Vint.  We are going against the grain of
divisiveness and indifference in our respective countries to re affirm our
passion for an ISOC worthy of the goals and aspirations set by our Founding
Fathers 13 years ago. 

Every act such as this one brings us closer and makes us more effective in
bringing these dreams to become living truths in our world.

Warmest regards
Ramon Morales
Internet Society of Puerto Rico

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Gaines [mailto:gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:41 AM
To: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
Subject: [SPAM] [chapter-delegates] ISOC Recognition evening for Cerf and
Kahn - A REPORT

All,

The meeting and meeting logistics went very well.

Several speakers were added at the beginning of the program,
and. time was so short we took telephone audio bridge calls from
only two people who were waiting on the line:

1) Lynn St. Amour calling in at 3:30 a.m.
   from Cairo and making it clear that she was
   there working on WSIS and Arab conference
   business (I think her presence there made a
   more favorable and impressive statement for
   ISOC than if she had attended personally)
   followed by

2) Ramon Morales from Puerto Rice.  Ramon's
   connection was crystal clear, and he made
   a beautiful statement about ISOC and about
   Vint and Bob.

I also played the 2-minute video clip sent to me by Patrick
Vande Walle as representative of the three ISOC Board members
elected by the Chapters.

We also read a prepared statement that Lynn had sent in.

At times during the above, I flashed on the huge video screen
samples of the congratulation emails sent in by chapters. I
used: Aragon-Spain, Asturia, Australia, Columbia, Madrid-Spain,
Mail, Nigeria, Palestine, Poland, and US-Chicago as samples.

The Booz Allen Hamilton World Headquarters Conference Center is
a magnificent facility, and we comfortably filled the 180-person
room. (MCI, Booz Allen only invited their senior staffs,
otherwise people those 2 companies would have overwhelmed the
room.) An important reason for using Booz Allen is their
excellent video facilities, we video recorded, and I hope we
will have a good quality video of the evening in a few days that
we can stream for all chapters.

Something I thought important, I read a 2-minute remembrance of
Nigeria's Prof. Nwodo, mentioning the Postel IT center success
there.

Marty Burack, President DCISOC acted as MC for the evening.

Highlight was a four person informal chat group, sitting in
large comfortable easy chairs and chatting about the past, how
it all happened, and the future: Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Steve
Crocker, and a local high school computer science student. And
she is a bright, articulate young girl. You will want to
see/hear it all.

I think Vint and Bob had a good time.

It was a magic evening. Certainly none of the invited speakers
or the attendees wanted to leave at the end of the evening.

We had other important speakers, and I will send more
on them and what they said.  Important.

In the next day, we will send several brief emails to the
chapter-delegates and ISOC general list reporting on the
meeting, listing the chapters that sent in emails, etc.

Gene Gaines
VP, Washington DC USA Chapter of ISOC