[ECC-Council] RE: [chapter-delegates] Suggestions about new membership system
W. Majewski
wladek at majewski.pl
Sun Mar 6 15:16:49 PST 2005
Hi all,
> Of course, same problem. All files send through the chapter-delegates
> mailinglist are corrupted.
I am sorry for troubles.
Both files are available at:
http://www.isoc.org.pl/2005/membership/membership_20050305.sxi and
http://www.isoc.org.pl/2005/membership/membership_20050305.ppt
Both are just a first draft.
Also the raw text version is below. Soon the more verbose version will
be available here: http://isoc.org.pl/wiki/index.php/MemberShip
All of you are invited to contribute your own suggestions, additions and
comments. Wiki requires registration but everyone can create account
for himself.
rgds
Wladek
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SLIDE 1:
Members and Chapters
Władysław Majewski
ISOC Poland, president
SLIDE 2: *Member's contributions*
Participation in debates regarding goals and tasks
Personal engagement in tasks' implementation
Leading by example
Promotion of ideas
Marketing of goals and tasks
Contribution of members' special abilities
A monetary contribution (local and global fees)
SLIDE 3: *Members' rights and expectations*
Admirable and trusted leadership
Clear message about mission, goals and tasks
Clear, stable and followed rules and procedures
Right to speak, to be heard and to be answered
Open debate about goals and performance
Reliable and transparent financial governance
Open disclosure of conflicts of interest
Proper representation
SLIDE 4: *Global membership*
Contributions
+ Participation in debates
? Engagement in implementation
? Leading by example
+ Promotion of ideas
+ Marketing for goals and tasks
+ Contribution of special abilities
+ Local fees and donations
- Direct global fees and donations
Rights and expectations
? Admirable and trusted leadership
? Clear message
? Right to be heard and answered
? Open debate
- Transparent financial governance
+- Representation (indirect only)
- Disclosure of conflicts of interest
SLIDE 5: *Organizational members*
Contributions
Participation in debates
? Engagement in implementation
Leading by example
Promotion of ideas
Marketing for goals and tasks
? Contribution of special abilities
- Local fees and donations
+ Direct global fees and donations
Rights and expectations
Admirable and trusted leadership
Clear message
++ Right to be heard and answered
Open debate
Transparent financial governance
++ Representation
Disclosure of conflicts of interest
SLIDE 6: *Proposed individual paying members*
Contribution
Participation in debates
Engagement in implementation
Leading by example
Promotion of ideas
Marketing for goals and tasks
Contribution of special abilities
- Local fees and donations
+ Direct global fees and donations
Rights and expectations
Admirable and trusted leadership
Clear message
? Right to be heard and answered
? Open debate
? Transparent financial governance
++ Representation
? Disclosure of conflicts of interest
SLIDE 7: *Chapters*
Tasks
Local activities and projects
Leadership by example
Marketing of goals and tasks
Promotion of standars and ideas
Local debates
Political lobbing for standards' implementation
Direct contact with members
Local internet services and membership management
Expectations
To be asked, heard and answered
To be invited and included into global and regional projects
Clear rules for grant application and common projects
Leadership for multinational projects and activities
Organizational, technical, marketing and political support if needed
and requested – see next slide about the principle od subsidiarity
SLIDE 8: *The principle of subsidiarity*
Nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which
can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization.
http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/article.php?id=200
SLIDE 9: *Back to reality*
Some specific
practical proposals
membership and fees
SLIDE 10: *Membership management*
Single point of contact and user interface for global and local
membership management
Basic local task
- Local language, address and title formats
- Local personal contact with members including newsletters and messages
- Knowledge about member's contributions, achievements and social position
- Participation in local activities
- Fees collection by local bank in local currency = lower transaction costs
Global services should be subsidary to local
- A database interface is a primary way of data exchange in both directions
- Centralised user interface for members feasible only as a last resort
SLIDE 11: *Unified membership status*
- No separate “local” and “global” membership
- Personal activity is a most important contribution
- Chapters know their members (and their record)
- It is reasonable to require:
- some experience – for example one year of “associate” status
- some personal contribution
to grant full voting membership
- Fees are complementary to personal activity and cannot subsitute for it
SLIDE 12: *Basic fees*
Required
- to periodically confirm a will to maintain membership
- can be waived in case of verified hardship
Locally affordable
Should cover cost of:
- Membership management (local is cheaper)
- Marketing and promotion of membership (local task)
- Members' benefits (local ones are cheaper and more desirable)
- Collection and handling of fees (local is much cheaper)
SLIDE 13: *Premium fees*
Required for premium benefits (local and global)
- Conference discounts
- Printed materials, CDs and DVDs
- Personal promotion
- Advisory and consulting services
- Honorary titles and social benefits (meetings, dinners etc)
Possibility to monetary support chosen projects
No voting privilidges for sale
SLIDE 14: *Fees distribution*
Fees should be left to chapters
- Virtually all costs related to fees are local
- No need for an employed “global membership director”
- No need for a rented global “membership management system”
- Incentive for chapters to promote and maintain membership
- Chapters depend on fees; for global ISOC fees are a marginal source
- Local management of fees in local banks and currency is much cheaper
- Fees can used by chapters as their contribution for projects. It is
important in case of grant applications
- Fees can be used to fund regional cooperation of chapters
If international money transfer is necessary - it is cheaper and easier
to do it three or four times a year between chapter's and ISOC's account
SLIDE 15: *Chapters and representations*
- Voting members of chapters should have voting privilidges equal to all
other individual members
- ISOC BoT should specify minimal requirements for status of voting
chapter's member
- Seperate representation of chapters reflects chapters' organizational
knowledge, competence and position in their respective communities. It
should not replace and substitute for representation of individual members
SLIDE 16: *Organizational members' fees*
- Each organizational member of global ISOC
- should contribute to at least one chapter as its organizational member
- Pillar/project chosen by donor should get up to 50% of contribution
- Other half of contribution should be used for needs chosen by ISOC
Organizational members of chapters should be able to get some
recognition on global level (including info on chapter's page on
isoc.org) for reasonable additional fee no exceeding 50% of required
local contribution
Complimentary membership given to organizational members should be equal
in rights and requirement to standard ISOC and chapters' membership
SLIDE 17: *Organizational membership*
- ISOC is no more dependent only on organizational members' contribution
- Need for separate class of membership and representation for org
members is reduced
- Organizational members should have voting power primarily by votes of
individual ISOC members recommended and supported by them
- Organizational members should be able to influence projects supported
by them
SLIDE 18: *Services for members*
- Responsibility delegated to chapters if possible
- Outsourced only if no available from internal resources, chapters,
volunteering members or contributing organizational members
- No fixed costs on global level
- No dedicated staff
- No rented management system
SLIDE 19: *Plea*
Please restart the whole process of defining individual membership from
scratch
- Let enough time for position presentation by all affected parties and
for debate
- Work hard and openly for compromise
- Ensure that all proposed terms and solutions are well understood
before decision is declared and implemented
Restart is cheaper than another schizm
SLIDE 20: *Some additional
suggestions and remarks*
SLIDE 21: *Projects and grants*
Clear and stable rules for:
- Soliciding of proposals
- Requirements for proposals
- Prefferences for proposals
- Evaluation of proposals and choice of experts
- Evaluation of project performance
No single dollar for project chosen by discretionaly decision of ISOC
President or staff
SLIDE 22: *Participation in debates*
No policy declared without global debate. Prerogatives and tasks of VP
for policy include initiation and moderation of debate. No more
“software patents” policy declared without previous debate.
Rules for topics identification and scheduling
- Time for translation of position documents and local debate
- All parties invited to present their position
- Limited number (4-6) global debates each year
- Each debate summarized by moderator
- Each debate should lead to published position or applicable practical
proposals
SLIDE 23: *Promotion and marketing*
- Promotion of open standards
- Translation of standards
- Canon of promotional and explanatory documents which must or should be
available languages
- Standard ISOC leaflets ready to translation
- International RSS feed with editing access for trusted members from
several regions, countries and cultures
SLIDE 24: *Leading by example*
ISOC needs examplary internet communication competence and facilities
- Accessability
- Standard compliance
- Distributed content management and information distribution system
No more “we lack a competence to effectively distribute our own policy
document” drama
SLIDE 25: *Leadership*
ISOC President, VPs and BoT members must:
- maintain regular, scheduled meeting and visits in different regions
and countries
- Regularly, personally and actively participate in internet debates by
mailing lists, forums and instant communicators
- Regularly communicate their papers, positions, suggestions and calls
for action
If communication with members is a waste of time for you - please find
other field of activity
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