[Chapter-delegates] Macedonia Chapter Application for Review

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Veni,

thanks for your informative comment. It is remarkable that you are a 
member of the Macedonia Chapter too!

The application and Veni's additional note are most welcome in that they 
are verifiable wrt people involved and indeed some of them are well known 
and held in high esteem.

The institutional arrangement of creating the chapter as a unit of the 
Metamorphosis Foundation seems a necessity given what we all know can be 
the red tape of governmentally mandated registration of new societies and 
the associated times and costs. One does expect the Chapter to inform 
later how this unit is established and what degree of independence it can 
achieve (a spectrum of things between policy and money come to mind.) On 
the face of it, it seems more like we should thank the Foundation for 
supporting the Chapter, but in the long run we must make sure there are 
not too many labels for a small group of people.

Terry, is the institutional agreement agreeable to ISOC administratively? 
Will the Chapter have the ability to sign an MoU, be made responsible for 
intellectual property, use of ISOC logos, etc., as I assume most of us 
are?

If this aspect is satisfactory for ISOC HQ I am glad to join the support 
for the creation of the chapter and the congratulations to all the 
hard-working people who put it together, and wish best luck to them.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Veni Markovski wrote:

> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:08:39 -0400
> From: Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com>
> To: Terry Weigler <tweigler at isoc.org>,
>     ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Macedonia Chapter Application for  Review
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> as one of the co-founders and initiaters of this, I strongly support the 
> establishment of ISOC - Macedonia.
> Further, many of the people who are listed below, are quite well known in the 
> Macedonian Internet, and  some of them have been involved with the WSIS, the 
> UNDP projects in South Eastern Europe, and others (e.g. Open Society 
> Institute funded ones), where many of you may have met them.
>
> ISOC-Macedonia will be a positive contribution to the growing ISOC European 
> family!
>
> Congratulations again!
>
> <http://www.veni.com/>Veni Markovski
> www.isoc.bg
> chairman of the board
>
>
>
> At 09:00 AM 19.4.2006 '?.'  -0400, Terry Weigler wrote:
>> On behalf of the Membership Director, ISOC is submitting
>> Chapter applications to this mailing list to give you an opportunity
>> to comment on them. The Internet Society is most interested to
>> hear if there exist reasons why a Chapter application should not
>> be accepted but you're welcome to offer statements of support, too.
>> Later, we will send a package of the proposed Bylaws and officers to
>> this list, again for you to comment.
>> 
>> Criteria to date for evaluating Chapter applications and Bylaws has been
>> pretty straightforward: unless there's a good reason not to accept a
>> proposed Chapter it is approved.  As part of involving you in the process 
>> of
>> reviewing these materials ISOC is open to suggestions on additional 
>> criteria
>> you believe are relevant. Since you are already successful operating
>> Chapters, you are best positioned to comment on what is likely to be
>> successful.
>> 
>> The application is copied below for your consideration. If you have any
>> comments, questions or concerns, please respond by 3 May 2006
>> to <chapters at isoc.org>
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Terry Weigler
>> ISOC Chapters Administration
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>