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On 29/03/2012 1:02 AM, David Vyorst wrote:
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<div>A DC office would be nice as well. We currently use John's
home address, and he's been rather lucky that no one has looked
it up.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:53 AM, David
Solomonoff <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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padding-left: 1ex;">Following on the issue of Chapter
support ...<br>
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Even the New York Chapter is hampered by this. We have
received some grant money but our all-volunteer group has
difficulty finding the time to both do the projects and
produce all the documentation - and we have Joly, a
professional videographer, as one of our most active
members.<br>
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We have had offers of assistance (including financial) from
local ISP's we haven't been able to follow up on. Event
space is a constant problem. After the controversy about
Paul Brigner's appointment I invited him to visit us and he
agreed - but I had to really hustle to get a space on short
notice.<br>
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Despite the fact that it's possible to do so much online I
think that the Internet Society's credibility is hurt by not
having a physical space in a city like New York. I was
recently talking to a NYC city council staffer about the
.nyc TLD - trying to find put what was happening with the
application process. I explained who we were and our mission
- then he asked me where we were located. When I told him we
didn't have an office his tone immediately changed.<br>
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I can count on fingers the number of times we might have wanted to
use a private office in Sydney over the course of a year - certainly
not worth office rental or the excessive fees of a serviced office
at this stage.<br>
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Function and event spaces are another matter, but we are fortunate
to have a number of organisational members who are very willing to
provide us meeting rooms and function spaces in their offices for
the odd face-to-face board meeting, members functions and seminars,
for which they receive the exposure to the members attending, and
our acknowledgements and thanks at the microphone for their support.
Being an official not-for-profit organisation, I am often happily
surprised by the level of no-cost support we and other
not-for-profits receive from legal and accounting firms as part of
their pro-bono support.<br>
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For a sensitive meeting like David describes, my first call is to
our very accommodating lawyers who usually have a meeting room free.
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Paul Brooks
Treasurer
Internet Society of Australia
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.isoc-au.org.au">www.isoc-au.org.au</a></pre>
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