<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On 10 August 2017 at 08:51, John More </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:morej1@mac.com" target="_blank">morej1@mac.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I would agree that the specification that the promotion be made to “community leaders, press and regulators” presents problems and should be changed. I would have thought it sufficient to require activity in support of ISOC’s general purposes and leave it to the Chapters to determine what was an appropriate and allowable purpose.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Agreed. It is possible that even when Chapters *do* want to do such advocacy, they may need to keep it low-key and take care not to be on the wrong radars.</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Language regarding localization and promotion of <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission">the ISOC mission</a> is IMO sufficient stated-out-loud direction.</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">The purpose is to deal with zombie Chapters where all you have is a leadership that does nothing except perhaps promote itself.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Even self-promotion (<i>for the Chapter</i>) is not necessarily a bad idea, because promoting the Chapter (leading to local registration in the global ISOC member DB) equates by association to promoting the ISOC mission. It's not much, but definitely non-zero.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">What I think you are aiming at (and please tell me if I'm not) is (ab)use of Chapter names, titles, status and resources for nothing more than the resumé-building and personal advancement of otherwise-inactive "leaders". This is a genuine problem I have seen myself, though I am at a a short-term loss to suggest verbiage to address it.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I also find objectionable the requirement for informing staff within 30 days of completion of an activity/event. Why not just provide evidence annually about activities (including by newsletter, copies of event announcements).<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Agreed.</div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#0b5394">Evan Leibovitch</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline"><font color="#0b5394">Canada Chapter</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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