[chapter-delegates] New Membership Level

[Franck Martin]

James M Galvin wrote:

> I've been watching this discussion unfold today.  There are many valid 
> points of view and I do not want to discourage people from discussing 
> those views.  What I do want to do is add some context to the 
> discussion to explain how the new membership level came to be.  This 
> note is long, and I apologize for that, but I wanted to be complete.
>
> I accepted the position of VP of Chapters 3 years, just after the 
> Board had decided to restructure itself.  A component of the ISOC 
> strategy that emerged from that restructuring was to set aside 
> temporarily paying membership and instead create a new membership that 
> was free.  One of the responsibilities I had was to create a new 
> membership program that included both free membership and paying 
> membership.
>
> The fact is ISOC members want a paying membership.  We know this from 
> a survey we took more than 2 years ago.  Perhaps some of you 
> participated in that survey, although the discussions would suggest 
> that many of you either did not participate or do not remember doing 
> so.  We also surveyed Chapters (through this list) on what they wanted 
> from a membership system.

The survey was done when the membership was a paying one with about 
5,000 members at the time (?) I think if this survey is redone now, with 
10,000 members mostly free members, the results would be different 
because ISOC has reached a population class that was well excluded before...

Cheers

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Franck Martin
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