[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-AU in Sg and Th next week

[Rudi Vansnick]

Fred Baker schreef:

> On May 21, 2008, at 6:22 AM, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
>   
>> How much are we chapters-people able to organize bottom-up? What is  
>> the
>> most lightweight support we may need?
>>     
> A couple of thoughts.
>
> First, we actually have such a service, or at least did at one time.  
> Terry Weigler offered that if people (like me, who were always asking  
> her for contact information) would let her know their schedules, she  
> would advise them of meetings that she knew of in the area and  
> provide chapter contact information. That is how several of my  
> meetings with ISOC-AU got set up, and also meetings with ISOC's  
> Uganda chapter and others.
>
> But there are better alternatives that are more automated, using  
> dopplr.com or tripit.com. A few moments ago I sent invitations to the  
> six who have posted in this thread (one of whom, Anne, is already  
> connected to me) on Dopplr, so that you can see this. Dopplr focuses  
> on "person A will be in city B on these dates", with the idea of  
> enabling serendipitous travelers to link up. Tripit offers that as a  
> service but focuses on the details of the itinerary. I use both, for  
> the differing purposes.
>   
I registered today and booked already my travels ...

> What might be worthwhile would be for ISOC members and ISOC chapters  
> to get on these and (somehow, maybe something to discuss with the  
> services) find a way to have an enclosed group. It would be  
> interesting for a chapter to know that someone was visiting their  
> city and to get in contact with them, or for a person visiting a city  
> to be able to find a chapter that way.
>   
But still, the easiest way of having knowledge of someone from chapter A 
visiting city B of chapter C is that the person travelling just has a 
look at the chapters in that location and sends a small message 
informing about his visit. I think that every chapter would have a warm 
welcome for anyone from another chapter ... Why do we need to formalize 
every step we do on the net ? A little message is very likely and keeps 
your privacy where it needs to be.

At least that's what I think about spreading your travel info's on the 
WWW ...

Rudi Vansnick



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