+1 at least to the fellowship crew lead by Mama J and a few other staff that I had the privilege of interacting with are all great and open people.
What perhaps is more important is to make sure the script given to staff to run largely reflects bottom-up as much as possible.

Cheers!
sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.

On 30 Aug 2014 16:13, "Amr Elsadr" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi,

Same here. My interaction with ICANN staff is, more or less, limited to policy staff, the secretariat, Janice from the Fellowship Program and the regional staff members in charge of the “Middle East” region. I’ve found every one of them to be truly caring, diligent and meticulous in their work. I try to voice my appreciation of their efforts as often as I can.

Thanks.

Amr

On Aug 30, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Have decided that for me the best solution is to withdraw from the
> conversation on this issue.  I said what i had to say, I fought for
> what I believe in to the end, I lost, I will move on.
>
> But one one point I feel I must comment:
>
> On 30-Aug-14 15:22, Edward Morris wrote:
>> I don’t believe that is necessarily true of certain members of the
>> ICANN staff in their actions on other matters.
>
> I have been working with these people for years.  With one or two
> possible exceptions, and I am not even sure about those, staff is full
> of nice, well meaning caring people.  Yes, I have had my differences
> with them as I do with all people from time to time - it is in my
> nature, but they > "are good people acting in good faith."
>
> In our dealings with them, we might do a wee bit better if we learned
> to work with them instead of treating like the creatures from the lagoon.
>
> avri
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