[chapter-delegates] New Membership Level

[Francisco Herrera]

I am trying to create the Costa Rica Chapter. With no fees it is difficult
to gather members, with cost it will be almost impossible!.
My plan is create the chapter and later bring some companies like Intel
Costa Rica, Microsoft Central America, Oracle Central America, Procter and
Gamble, Unilever, Sykes, etc. as members to get some incomes for ISOC.
But with this plan, my plans fall down.
Francisco
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carlos Vera" <cvera at interactive.net.ec>
To: "Patrick Vande Walle" <patrick at isoc.lu>;
<chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] New Membership Level


> 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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