[chapter-delegates] Organizing chapters to work together (was Patent on IPv6)

[Gene Gaines]

Veni, pleased to see your thoughts below.

Chapters taking active steps together.  Very important.

To put this on the table is a big step forward.

Also, such work can have a massive positive impact on
sponsorship funding both local chapters and Hq.

Work on important causes such as Internet local and
international governance, teaching government representatives
about the Internet and its potential, championing an open
Internet, increasing Internet access, international projects
such as the International Early Warning System project, etc.
-- will bring sponsorship and funds, so long as the work is
balanced and effective.

It is worth noting that, when a nonprofit organization is
doing effective work, funding sponsors of all types tend to
be supportive rather than demanding.

Gene


On Thursday, March 31, 2005, 6:56:31 AM, Veni wrote:

> At 10:30 03-03-05  +0100, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:

>>Yes. It is true that the behaviour of the members (individual and org ...
>>or chapters) could have a negative effect on  ISOC's image. When things go
>>too far, ISOC should be in a position to protect itself. This is why we
>>need more org members, in order to be able to exclude one, with only a
>>marginal effect on the budget.

> Or we need better work with .org, rather than with org members. The current
> budget is largely due to the .org (PIR) funding. Remove that, and no org
> members will be able to help ISOC stay alive. I've warned several times,
> including in public, that the way ISOC budget is structured, makes the
> organization vulnerable. We need to have a budget that comes from programs,
> not programs that come from the budget. We need to have ISOC with its
> office in Geneva to start working on the EU 6th Framework, on different
> other initiatives. We need ISOC to organize the chapters so that they can
> become the members of a natural consortium which will then apply for
> funding from the EU. But because ISOC does not do that, may be we just need
> to start organizing this on our own - through local chapters activities,
> through sighning MoU between chapters (as we did between ISOC - Bulgaria
> and ISOC - Luxembourg), and then through follow up.

> v. 



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