[Chapter-delegates] Feedback on SOP

[Alan Levin]

Dear David and other planners,

I note the following from the "Budget planning" process and  
specifically the SOP part 2 as communicated in the past day or two...

It states:
"We recently launched a new Membership System that will enable better  
support to members,
chapter heads and will significantly improve operations of the ISOC  
membership staff.  The
Individual Membership program is predicted to have approx. 20K Global  
members at year end
(approx. 100 Sustaining members, plus several hundred from Org.  
Member companies) and we
budgeted 500 Sustaining members in 2006 (again, plus several hundred  
from Org. Member
companies).   This would provide approx. $50K to the budget  
(including donations) which is not a
financially significant amount, but the importance to ISOC goes well  
beyond the financial
contribution.  We intend to put a special effort into recruiting  
individual members so that we can
re-instate individual member voting for the Board of Trustees. "

I suggest that this is now many years out of date and that this  
system was a failure. Reports indicate that the system is not used  
and not useful to any of the chapters.  Communications from ISOC have  
been that the membership system will be sorted and that a new task  
team will be created to resolve the problems.

As per previous posts, please include in your SOP and budget planning.

Thanks,

Alan
Global member and ISOC-ZA chair

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Alan Levin
Tel: +27 21 409-7997