[Chapter-delegates] Your ISOC membership email address and chapter delegates mailing list subscription - deadline Monday November 21

[Erkki I. Kolehmainen]

Although I don't want to agree with the statements made by Mr. Majewski and several others, I cannot possibly understand what kind of total ignorance of technical progress is behind the implementation of the current membership system. I've said it before: In this day and age, anything but a UCS/Unicode based new system is a totally nondefendable, to me an unthinkable choice.

I've been following ITU far too long to ever use it as an example of reasonable practices.

Sincerely,
 
Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Tilkankatu 12 A 3, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
(09) 4368 2643, 0400 825 943; Int'l: +358 - 9 4368 2643 / 400 825 943

----- Alkuperäinen viesti ----- 
Lähettäjä: "W. Majewski" <wladek at isoc.org.pl>
Vastaanottaja: "Nelson Sanchez" <sanchez at isoc.org>
Kopio: <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Lähetetty: 15. marraskuuta 2005 16:47
Aihe: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Your ISOC membership email address and chapter delegates mailing list subscription - deadline Monday November 21


> Nelson,
> 
> > This is just a reminder.  Your action is required by Monday
> 
> Regretfully you remain in denial regarding the membership system fiasco.
> 
> Your action to fix basic deficiencies of ISOC membership system is 
> overdue by over two years. Instead you decided to force all chapter 
> delegates to use a automated torture machine where:
> 
> 1. it is NOT possible to enter member's name in proper form for people 
> using scripts other than american.
> 
> 2. it is NOT possible to change member's email.
> 
> 3. it is NOT possible to translate user interface into other language
> 
> 4. it is NOT possible to edit chapter's profile beyond its name and URL
> 
> 5. for member the only available way to join chapter is through 
> cumbersome "shopping procedure" with $0 value for "chapter membership".
> 
> I listed just five basic deficiencies but there is much much more. On 
> the other side ISOC members and chapters still wait to see a single 
> reason we are forced to use it.
> 
> Up to now balance for the whole membership system goes as follows: no 
> benefits and huge costs in terms of money, member's disappointment and 
> irritation, unnecessary technical barriers. Basically it is simply a 
> shame to ask an internet literate person to use it.
> 
> Sending such a request during the current WSiS debate reminds all of us 
> about ridiculus limitations of our membership management system and 
> possibly can be used by other side as a proof that ISOC is structurally 
> unable to hire a technically competent staff and to deliver a basic 
> functionality for itself. While ISOC is struggling to assemble a simple 
> database ITU for sure is able to hire a help necessary to run a grown-up 
> CRM system without making a commitment to display a free advertisement 
> of supplier on the main page.
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Wladek
> 
> 
> 
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