[Chapter-delegates] dormant chapters

[Anne Lord]

hi Joly, Fred, all,

The setup for the webpage is not ideal. It is a manual process to update 
it and relies for the mostpart on us receiving information regarding 
changes. There is a plan to integrate this much more tightly to the new 
Association Membership System (AMS) so that changes are captured in one 
place only.

Please do take the opportunity to quickly review the information for 
your chapter and let us know if it is out of date.  In the meantime we 
continue to work to have it updated and this is an ongoing process.

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/list.php?status=A

Regarding dormant chapters, you will see that there is a new page for 
"Rejuvenating Chapters" at:

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/list.php?region=&status=J&view=

or : http://tinyurl.com/5qjf9e

There is a process underway to identify dormant chapters and then to 
seek individuals in their membership who might be interested in helping 
to rejuvenate the chapter. Dormant chapters are currently identified 
when we have exhausted all efforts to get hold of the listed Chapter 
leaders or if the Chapter leaders tell us they are not interested 
anymore.  Dormant or "sleeping" chapters exist in a variety of forms, 
for good reasons, and we are trying, as part of our one-on-one 
engagement to reach out to the chapters that need help. This is an 
ongoing process and will again take time.

Within the context of the Sphere project there is a group which is 
looking at identifying criteria and measurement of chapters. The brief 
of the project is to:

* Identify 2 or 3 criterion to differentiate between Chapters.
* Clarify the criteria so each Chapter can assess where it fits
* Invite Chapters to make their own assessment of where they fit
* Using the data, map the overall ‘topography’ of the Chapters.

Please see:

http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Chapter+Analysis&bl

or: http://tinyurl.com/5g8ekp

Having criteria and a topography of the chapters will be of enormous 
help in our work.

Please consider joining the Sphere project if you have an interest in 
this area.

Best wishes
Anne
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WWWhatsup wrote:
> I guess that page is somewhat the victim of planning blight,
> neglected while grandiose schemes slowly advance?
> 
> It does seem that only very few chapters are active here, but I do 
> see via google alert sometimes New Zealand & South Africa, and 
> I know Israel did some IPv6 outreach earlier in the year.
> 
> Presumably Anne  and Sabrina, via Sphere, have pretty up-to-date info.
> 
> We could focus on a couple of dormant chapters at a time and
> see what we can do to bring them back up to speed.
> 
> joly
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Fred Baker wrote:
> 
>> The ISOC page that points to chapters is woefully out of date, and  
>> folks are amazingly unresponsive. A year or so ago I sent an email to  
>> every address on that page, and tried to open every web link pointed  
>> to. I got a lot of bounces and very few replies, and a surprising  
>> number of the web page domain names were no longer even registered. I  
>> have been very forward in my attempts to visit chapters, and few give  
>> me the courtesy of a reply.
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