[Chapter-delegates] ISOC Elections result

[Patrick Vande Walle]

 On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:28:13 +0530, "Sivasubramanian Muthusamy" 
wrote: 
 One observation: Chapter representatives or Trustees elected by
chapters are not elected to represent the chapter interests, but they
are to be broadly considered as the chapter's 'contribution' to the
ISOC administration to help ISOC in its policies and programs as a
whole.  

 If this is not understood well, the Trustees and officers that the
chapters elect would go to ISOC's policy meetings with a narrow agenda
and that could lead to a sort of politicization. But as part of this
tasks they may have to ensure the balance which is perhaps where they
can keep a note of the chapter proposals, in a manner that they don't
cause a sub group within the Board of Trustees.   Hello
Sivasubramanian, 
 I think you pointed out one fundamental "feature" of the elected
trustees, i.e. that they are not, strictly speaking, representing the
group that elected them to the board. 
 This being said, every trustee comes to the
board with their own
background and experience. Each of the great people I met during the
board meetings honestly suggest what they think is best for the
Society as a whole. I do not have the impression that the current
board is "against" chapters. All three of us, Alex, Franck and myself
have hands-on experience on what it means to run a chapter. It is our
job to maybe better share our experience with our colleagues. 
 We also have to learn. Chapters are generally small entities.
Chapter officers are involved in every aspect of the chapter's
activities, from deciding to organize an event to actually moving the
chairs in the room for the event. This is not the case with a larger
organization like ISOC. The board is expected to think in terms of
strategy. The operations are run by the staff. However, it is
important that the board monitors the operations to keep them in synch
with the strategy. Maybe the board did not in the past make its
strategy sufficiently clear, which lead to
misinterpretation by the
staff. We are working on that, too.
 Best regards,
 Patrick
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