[chapter-delegates] New Membership Level

[Veni Markovski]

At 16:28 04-03-05  -0500, Philippe Le Roux wrote:

>I think the ISOC HQ purpose is to serve ISOC Chapters and do what we need 
>and ask, not giving us the ability to survive from their initiatives.
>
>And I have few questions about this enormous mistake.
>
>The first question is :
>Why do we need this money ? For sending money to poor chapters who need it 
>? For helping more chapters to participate in meetings ? Or for 
>reinforcing policy ans burocracy in Washington DC?
>
>The second one is :
>How such a decision can be take without consulting us (membres and 
>chapters) ? Are we just a pretext or are we the people of ISOC ?
>
>The third one is :
>How can we help the chapters to make better actions ? And how, if needed, 
>managing membership fees for the HQ in this strategy ?
>May be offering at the chapters levels a double level of membership and 
>splitting the membership fees obtained between Chapter and HQ...
>
>The fourth one is :
>How the HQ of an international organistion such ISOC can ignore that half 
>of the planet live with less than 30 $ per month ?
>If the membership is 75$ for Poland or Peru, I suggest to put inidvidual 
>membership at 20 000$ for american members !!!! HQ will keep the 75$ and 
>send the difference to chapters who need money for hosting their website !

Philippe,

I guess you are not asking me, but the VP for chapters.
Jim? (and if you have responded already, don't do it again - I am writing 
this in the airplane, and - believe it or not - but there's no Internet 
here - what a waste;()

Veni  


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