[Chapter-delegates] List Charter

[Anne Lord]

Hi Narelle and all,

Apologies for not replying to this sooner and thanks for your  
suggestions.  The delay in replying was because I wanted to check  
what, in the way of a charter existed from when the list was created  
back in 2002. The initial posting then contained these guidelines:

> The purpose of this list is to provide a forum for you, as
> representatives of your Chapter, both to discuss Chapter related  
> issues
> and to announce activities and programs of your Chapter.  ISOC will  
> use
> this list to keep you informed of its activities.  You are  
> encouraged to
> distribute any ISOC announcement you receive to all the members of  
> your
> Chapter.  Whenever possible, we would appreciate it if you could
> translate such messages to ensure they can be read by your membership.


Nevertheless it is probably timely to update the charter, so we would  
like to add it to our tasks for 2008 under the broad area of "Policy  
development".  Narelle - i hope it is okay - we will put your name  
down as a volunteer to work on this when we ask for those interested  
to help :).

In the meantime I do not wish to discourage anyone from posting, but  
I would politely request that we try to limit unnecessary traffic to  
people's inboxes as much as possible.

Best wishes,
Anne
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On 22/11/2007, at 9:15 AM, Narelle Clark wrote:

>
> I think we need to write a formal list charter.
>
> With a charter we can give formal and clear guidelines to list  
> members about things we appreciate being posted to chapter- 
> delegates and things we don't.
>
> There is often traffic on the list which is well meaning, but in my  
> view not useful.
>
> A group, or even our delightful employee Ann, should, off list, set  
> to drafting a charter and post it back for broader endorsement.
>
> The charter should be included as the info file sent to all new  
> members, and occasionally back to the list to remind people of what  
> is on topic, and what is off topic.
>
> I really enjoy being part of ISOC, and very much value the strong  
> international contact and understanding it brings.
>
> As such, the charter should highlight on list topics such as:
> - techniques to promote your chapter
> - joint submissions to international bodies
> - policy development methods n a chapter
> - fund raising methods for chapters
> - recommendations for running chapters
> etc
>
> off topic (in my view) would be:
> - 'me too' posts unless actually voting on something
> - repeated congratulations to new chapters (this is tricky as we  
> need to introduce ourselves and our chapters regularly)
> - items of interest only to one chapter
>
>
> Khaled, who is not alone in this type of thing (indeed I am sure I  
> have been one also, most certainly I have caused it!), has just  
> posted well wishes for what I presume is an obscure public holiday  
> in one nation.
>
> I apologise in advance to Khaled for seeming to single him out  
> here. Please accept that this is not personal towards Khaled.
>
> We have some 92 active chapters, many of which representing  
> separate geographic regions. That leaves us with the possibility of  
> some 92x n public holidays. In addition, a number of us may observe  
> astronomical events, of which at least 4 annually are very  
> significant. 10 chapters only are in North America, and assuming  
> only 5 are in the US (excluding Canada and Mexico) then that leaves  
> some 5 that might observe that particular public holiday. Excuse me  
> again if I have jumped to a conclusion here, as I have no idea when  
> the US Thanksgiving Day is, how it is observed, or even who really  
> observes it, just that it is sometime at the end of the year.
>
> FYI - public holidays I care about are: Australia (aka Invasion)  
> Day 26 Jan, Anzac Day 25 April, New Years (Federation) Day 1 Jan  
> and I admire the Solstices and other astronomical events. I do not  
> expect well wishes for them on this list, though I would encourage  
> people to post descriptions of chapter events conducted to mark  
> such things, particularly if they work well and act as examples to  
> us all.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Narelle
> VP ISOC-AU
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khaled KOUBAA
> Sent: Thu 11/22/2007 7:26 AM
> To: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Happy Thanksgiving
>
> Hey All,
>
> I wish you happy Thanksgiving
>
> Khaled
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