<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><img src="https://t.yesware.com/t/b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e/231a136e393a4d3afaa500f2450c79ca/spacer.gif" style="border:0; width:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;" width="0" height="0"><img src="http://t.yesware.com/t/b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e/231a136e393a4d3afaa500f2450c79ca/spacer.gif" style="border:0; width:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;" width="0" height="0"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">As mentioned Drew is no longer with ISOC.</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">The New York Chapter has never, ever, had success involving the local organizational members in our activities, at least this century. We really made a strong effort for the <a href="http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/11/ny.shtml">INET back in 2011</a> when Sally was Region Manager, and with back up from Drew, but the only local sponsor NYI was someone we actually recruited, who then became a member. Vint brought Google, Drew brought UPS. </div><font face="yw-b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e-231a136e393a4d3afaa500f2450c79ca--to" style="display: none;"></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">We look enviously at ISOC-DC in this respect, with their ties to many corporate policy offices.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">It's difficult imagining Verizon getting too enthusiastic about funding NYC Mesh, whose basic intention is to disrupt their retail business!</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">j</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Dave Burstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com" target="_blank">daveb@dslprime.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">David</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Some thoughts that might help. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1- You don't need to use an intermediary with Kathy. She reads her own email. There's every reason to work with Drew and everyone else at ISOC to get things done. But ISOC is not a big outfit and everyone's accessible. If you need Kathy's help, ask her.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">2- Link of Verizon was a key contact for ISOC but has now retired. The DC chapter will know who's taken up the slack. Collecting from Verizon is a standard ISOC procedure. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">3- All the larger outfits here have someone, usually the VP communications, who can make something like this happen. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">4- You need to be very specific in what you ask. Giving you a 100 megabit web connection is very easy for any of the larger companies here and costs them almost nothing if you pay the interconnection cost. But giving you money probably requires several approvals.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Good luck with this. Great if we develop something good here.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dave</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Joly MacFie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" target="_blank">joly@punkcast.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alejandro Pisanty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apisanty@gmail.com" target="_blank">apisanty@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">this looks like a good opportunity for collaboration with ISOC staff, including Drew Dvorshak and his office which is in contact with the donors and orrganizational members of the Internet Society. I recognize a couple of these companies as such members, and others could be approached for a broader collaboration which would have better chances of success than a single chapter's single project looking for donations/discounts in an eminently operational area.</blockquote></div><br></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Drew got up and spoke at one of the recent ISOC DC Pathfinder events, and mentioned he no longer works for ISOC. We are also lacking a North America Bureau Manager at present, since Paul is gone, or even a North America Chapter Development Manager, since Raquel moved on to policy. As regions go, we are the poor relation (except for webcasting :)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">j</div><span><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><a href="tel:218%20565%209365" value="+12185659365" target="_blank">218 565 9365</a></span></span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div></div></div>
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