[Chapter-delegates] dormant chapters

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Dear Michiel Leenaars,

There are two points in your message that I would like to respond to:

1) Yes, a global education agenda could be one of the action plans that
could help revitalize dormant chapters as also help new chapters like
Chennai to take root. Often the speakers are there locally in every country.
If we take Chennai for example, we may not require speakers to travel down
from the US or netherlands for smaller events. We have enough and more
experts locally, which would be the case with most chapters. What can be
done centrally is to draw up an agenda for six to ten Speaker meetings or
events, with or without a uniform timetable. The topics can be both
technical and non-technical, so as to be of interest to the larger
population. The Speakers' Buearau is a very good idea, but chapters could be
encouraged to ADD to the Speakers' Bueraue by identifying and inviitiing
local experts. Where possible, the chapters can be encouraged to draw up
resources as much as possible from the same region from among the list of
people enlisted in the Global Speakers' Bureau.

2) On your observation that  "*ISOC is often seen to be a traveling circus
around other peoples events*", we need to be seriously concerned. Perhaps we
should immediately plunge into action on the ideas generated on the threads
"ISOC Election Results" and "INET meetings - Global INET 2011 and beyond"
with attention to Anne's latest note on the discussion in a separate email
this morning.

Sivasubramanian M.




On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Michiel Leenaars <Michiel at staff.isoc.nl>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > 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.
>
> I think it would be important for ISOC to do standards evangelism
> events in countries, with the help of chapters. ISOC should IHMO have a
> global educational agenda, with lots of workshops and masterclasses
> organised in countries. If a chapter is present but dormant, that may
> give them just a jumpstart to become alive again - or for a new
> chapter to be formed. There are really a lot of subjects that would be
> worth talking about, here in the Netherlands we have had many speakers
> on net security, IPv6, SIP, ENUM, BGP, Manet, but also on W3C subjects
> like (e.g. CSS, SVG, XHTML2) and on grid technology etc.
>
> If ISOC would have the infrastructure, the plan and the list of people
> willing to give tutorials and masterclasses, sort of a speakers bureau,
> the chapters could help organise events decentrally. Now, ISOC is often
> seen to be a travelling circus around other peoples events - why not
> take advantage of this huge network and enormous intellectual assets
> and do something structurally ourselves.
>
> Best,
> Michiel Leenaars
> Director ISOC.nl
>
>
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