<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Eric<div><br></div><div>A clearer formulation of what I was trying to say. Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>John More</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 29, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Eric Burger <<a href="mailto:eburger@standardstrack.com">eburger@standardstrack.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">There are three legs to the ISOC three-legged stool:<div><ol><li>Chapters: the people who USE the Internet</li><li>Organizations: the people who BUILD and RUN the Internet</li><li>IETF: the people who INVENT, REFINE, and ensure an INTEROPERABLE Internet</li></ol></div><div><br></div><div><b>No</b> leg is more important than the other:</div><div><ul><li>Chapters represent individual people’s interests, not driven (necessarily) by a profit or governmental motive. </li><li>Organizations represent the most people from more geographic regions than any Internet Society community. </li><li>The IETF represents the best in working out the best technical solution, irrespective of one’s company, national, or ethnic origin.</li></ul></div><div>Likewise:</div><div><ul><li>Without Organizations, we would not have the insights of how things <i>really</i> work.</li><li>Without Chapters, we would have no heart.</li><li>Without the IETF, there would not be an Internet for there to be an Internet Society.</li></ul></div><div>This is also why, as Jason pointed out, once each Internet Society community selects Trustee(s), those Trustee do not represent that community. Those Trustees work for the best result for the Internet. Not Chapters. Not Organizations. Not the IETF. Not even the Internet Society as a corporation. Just the best for the open, free, accessible, and interoperable Internet.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:41 AM, Gihan Dias <<a href="mailto:gihan@uom.lk">gihan@uom.lk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014/03/29 පෙ.ව. 9:14, Evan
Leibovitch wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:CAMguqh082Jx9Zy6tqf=ZjU9yKASkAWpRdC0U0P6V0AFF4ds=8w@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><p dir="ltr">Any candidate can promise to throw money at a
solution and hope it will fix itself. (Whether, once on the
Board, such a position has a realistic ability to succeed, is
reasonable to ask. )</p>
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<big>Evan,<br>
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So I will refrain from making unrealistic promises.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:CAMguqh082Jx9Zy6tqf=ZjU9yKASkAWpRdC0U0P6V0AFF4ds=8w@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><p dir="ltr">But the challenge is more than just money, it is one
of changing culture. IMO, those who are elected have a
responsibility to ensure at the Board level that chapters are a
built-in characteristic of ISOC, indeed *the* defining
characteristic, not one that appears added on as an
afterthought. </p>
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<big>Yes. Chapters came later in the society's evolution. However,
now they are (or should be) one of the two legs of the society, of
equal status with organisational members. I believe that the best
way to do this to strengthen chapters by<br>
1. Making chapters be active, visible and effective at a national
level, and to have chapters identify and drive national issues<br>
2. Have effective input from each chapter, through regional
bureaus, to the Society. This will include - but not be limited to
- the Chapter Advisory Council.<br>
3. Make chapters financially strong by supporting fund-raising at
chapter level.<br>
4. Support each chapter to have at least a part time paid staff
member. - otherwise volunteer officers will find it difficult to
get any work done<br>
5. Encourage and support collaboration among chapters.<br>
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I would also like to get your views on other ways of strengthening
chapters.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:CAMguqh082Jx9Zy6tqf=ZjU9yKASkAWpRdC0U0P6V0AFF4ds=8w@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><p dir="ltr">Such cultural evolution requires far more than
financial consideration to ensure chapter sustainability (though
that component is certainly part of it). I want to hear from
each candidate a vision that indicates both an understanding of
this challenge and the political capability to confront it.</p>
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<big>Each chapter is unique, and will have its own challenges. ISoc
should be flexible enough to work with each chapter on its own
terms, while at the same time avoiding favoritism.<br>
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Regards.<br>
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Gihan<br>
ISoc Sri Lanka<br>
BoT Candidate<br>
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