[chapter-delegates] New Membership Level

[Carlos Vera]

Dear Patrick collecting local fees is contrary to some chapter policies. We 
at ISOC Ecuador has a policy NO MEMBERSHIP FEES.

Carlos
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Vande Walle" <patrick at isoc.lu>
To: <chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] New Membership Level


> Carlos Vera wrote:
>
> Dear Carlos,
>
>> 1. Next step is to stablish a relation between voting and membership. 
>> (more members more voting or in other words more USD $$ means more 
>> representation)
>
> Paying members will get one directly elected board member when the number 
> of paying members reaches 500. This is not going to happen anytime soon 
> IMHO. And even if it did, there cannot be more than 3 board members 
> elected by this "constituency" (for lack of a better word)
>
>> 2. Paid membership means I get something for my money.
>
> We had this debate at the Board. The idea was that some people might be 
> willing to give a small (by US/European standards) amount to ISOC, as they 
> would to say, the Red Cross or another NGO, without expecting a direct 
> return on their investment. Until now, they did not have that opportunity.
>
>> 3. There are ways to be creative and make a real chapter development 
>> inside ISOC using income from projects like PIR.
>
> This is the goal of the Chapter projects funding to be announced soon.
>
>> There are lot of examples where such type of income is used to cover 
>> administrative expenses, luxury hotels and first class travel... and 
>> finally what drop from table is used for real work.
>
> Carlos, I can assure you that no-one within ISOC travels first class or 
> has such-like advantages.
>
> As for the impact of the paying membership, the 2005 budget says it is 
> less that 1% and again this looks optimistic to me. 
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/fin/ISOC2005budget.pdf
>
> As for the suggestion of Olivier, I like the idea of collecting fees at 
> the local level and give a percentage to ISOC, although the logistics make 
> the effiency of such a process difficult.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Patrick
>
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