<font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Hello<br><br>Whether or not stated in the bylaws, all Chapters with geographic names are deemed to be geographic chapters. <br><br>But at the same time Chapters could adopt it as a convention to be open to members of other Chapters from anywhere. </font></font></font><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">ISOC
Chapter guidelines allow membership in multiple chapters. This needs to be encouraged.</font></font></font><br><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>Chapters may also be open to prospective members who express a particular interest in joining a Chapter beyond his geographic region. (ISOC England is 'indicative'ly a Chapter for the people of England but if someone from India or Spain wishes to be a part of Isoc England, the Chapter shouldn't refuse to consider membership. )<br>
<br><br clear="all"></font></font></font>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>Isoc India Chennai<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Marcin Cieslak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saper@saper.info" target="_blank">saper@saper.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Joly MacFie wrote:<br>
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The ISOC-DC chapter in formation are in the process of formulating a<br>
set of by-laws.<br>
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James Galvin has questioned a geographic restriction to the effect<br>
that members must be from the local area.<br>
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Drafter James More responded that 1) other chapters have geographic<br>
boundaries, and 2) the restriction could be removed.<br>
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Does any other chapter have such a restriction?<br>
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ISOC Poland bylaws (from 2000) say, that the chapter operates<br>
on the territory of the Republic in Poland and *may* operate<br>
outside of it. What this practically means that we need to travel to Brussels from time to time due to our EU activity.<br>
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Please have a look at the board resolution 97-17 "ISOC Chapter Policy"<br>
(from 1997):<br>
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3. Scope of Chapters<br>
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Chapters may be established on a non-exclusive basis to cater to<br>
the needs of any specific, cohesive community of interest. Generally<br>
this will be a regional community within national boundaries.<br>
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Where a significant overlap of the defined communities arises from<br>
the proposed creation of a new chapter, a compelling reason must<br>
exist for such a redundancy. This does not preclude formation of<br>
City/State/Province/Department chapters where a chapter already<br>
extends to national boundaries.<br>
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<a href="http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/mtg11.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/mtg11.shtml</a><br>
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Basically, the rule is to avoid direct territorial competition.<br><font color="#888888">
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--Marcin</font><div><div></div><div><br>
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