[Chapter-delegates] ISOC Elections result

[Fred Baker]

I had just replied to Siva's note and saw yours.

I think the important question, if you want to bring INET back, is  
how to make it work economically. As you note, you didn't send many  
people to Stockholm or Barcelona; IIRC, only yourself or yourself  
plus one other came to INET 2004 in barcelona, and you came primarily  
for the ISOC-ECC meeting.

Part of this has to be content that will attract people. ISOC  
Barcelona was largely about Internet Governance, one of far too many  
places where people got together to babble illogically on ill-defined  
topics. The talk I gave in Barcelona listed four possible meanings of  
the title and stated that it was hard to have a viable discussion  
unless someone picked a definition. To bring chapters to INET, we  
need content, probably at least in part from chapters, that chapters  
will find interesting and useful. I think we can get the org members  
to contribute content as well if we can show attendance.

Bottom line, it costs something to have a conference. If a few people  
come, cost divided by attendance looks pretty steep, and that plus  
travel cost/time keeps people away. If a lot of people come, it  
becomes far more reasonable. The INETs in 1998 and 1999 had a  
devastating effect on the Society because folks didn't come. We can  
do anything that works financially, but there has to be enough income  
to pay the expenses.

On May 13, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:
>> Dear Khaled KOUBAA,
>> The chapters meeting in Dubai is a good initiative. It would bring  
>> us all
>> together for a constructive discussion.
>> If there is something that you would like me to do by way of  
>> assistance in
>> the areas of drawing up the agenda, or meeting plan, please ask.
>
> Couldn't we bring just INET conference back?
>
> From my perspective, it is easier to send a larger group of people  
> for the one even every year than keep chasing various events around  
> the world I am not always interested in.
>
> Few people from us were present in Stockholm and Barcelona, we  
> volunteered to work on the conference (I did this on INET2001).
>
> What about this?
>
> -- 
>               << Marcin Cieslak // saper at saper.info >>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chapter-delegates mailing list
> Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/chapter-delegates