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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/29/13 10:05, Christian de
Larrinaga wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir Next;">Veni<br>
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The point is that it is ISOC that gets the revenue flows, not
the chapters nor a body or foundation promoting local Internet
communities such as chapters. So a chapter only gets access to
the .org funds through ISOC. It may well be that ISOC may have
not been awarded .org franchise without the chapters but there
was no agreement with chapters on how any revenues would be
divided up.<br>
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Of course there wasn't, but there were statements that no .org money
will go to cover the expenses of ISOC, but only for public policy
projects. We supported ISOC HQ, because we believed in it - don't
forget, that's a long time ago, and ISOC was at the edge of
bankruptcy. <br>
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There is a moral duty I think for ISOC to develop local Internet
communities and the not for profit sector use of Internet and
the .org revenues are very much part of that opportunity. The
chapters who supported the .org bid for ISOC would seem a great
place to focus on to deliver that mission. ISOC Trustees have
emphasised the broad thrust of this intent but so far
implementation has not been strong.<br>
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Agree. <br>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir Next;">Bearing that in mind I
would expect rather more than 2-3% of ISOC budget for chapter
led activities. But I was not talking about that content led
mission. I was limiting my comments to bootstrapping a shared
secretariat resource that Chapters could tap into so volunteers
are supported. I would be very disappointed if chapter funding
became dominated by "secretariat" or "admin" issues. Ideally we
need to try to keep overheads to a very small level as
proportion of overall spend. We should certainly be aiming to be
in the top 10% of NFP bodies in this regards. <br>
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Well, 2-3 % would have been a good start - it's abot $ 1 million.
Someone else suggested it. I was suggesting actually much bigger
change - $ 10 Million, distributed among 100 chapters.<br>
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