<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">+1<br><br>Ibrahim A.S.<br>ISOC Niger Chapter<br><br>--- En date de : <b>Jeu 18.4.13, Augustine CHII NGEK <i><chii.ngek@gmail.com></i></b> a écrit :<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>De: Augustine CHII NGEK <chii.ngek@gmail.com><br>Objet: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Chapter financing<br>À: "Paul Brooks" <paul.brooks@isoc-au.org.au><br>Cc: chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org<br>Date: Jeudi 18 avril 2013, 7h57<br><br><div id="yiv1281291775">Hi,<br>This discussion has been going on for long and has garnered a lot of support from members. I do think the ISOC Board should look at this proposal so that we can take a decision about it. This will help to start another discussion and move ahead. There is much to discuss and do. <br>
<br>CHII Augustin<br>ISOC Cameroon Chapter<br><br><br><br><div class="yiv1281291775gmail_quote">On 18 April 2013 02:18, Paul Brooks <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul.brooks@isoc-au.org.au" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=paul.brooks@isoc-au.org.au">paul.brooks@isoc-au.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv1281291775gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv1281291775im">On 17/04/2013 6:12 PM, Jordi Iparraguirre wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
><br>
> some weeks ago there was a burst of mails about how could ISOC HQ help chapters via<br>
> subsidizing basic admin chores so chapter leaders can focus on mission instead of<br>
> chapter administration.<br>
><br>
> This is something that may not be crucial to very dynamic chapters or chapters in<br>
> countries where law allows for corporate members, but that is really an issue to the<br>
> ones in the deadlock of not being able to charge fees because they do not have<br>
> enough resources to offer appealing payback to members.<br>
<br>
</div>Count me in for any further discussions on this. Back when we could afford a<br>
part-time staff member, things happened. Now that we are, like many other chapters,<br>
reliant on people with other day-jobs finding precious spare time, or finding<br>
indulgent employers that don't mind some work time being spent on ISOC business and<br>
administration, a lot less happens.<br>
There seems to be threshold for effectiveness - if we can help get sufficient funding<br>
to chapters to get over the staffing threshold, then the effort can become<br>
self-sustaining and growing as the resources start bringing in more membership funding<br>
and grant funding than their salaries are consuming. We have to recognise that our<br>
passionate representatives and backoffice workers can't get by on passion alone, they<br>
also need to eat - or they burn out and leave, which we have seen too much of.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Paul.<br>
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Paul Brooks<br>
Treasurer<br>
Internet Society of Australia<br>
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