[Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in Bangalore, India

[Veni Markovski]

Anne, some comments below:

Anne Lord wrote:
>>>>   1) ISOC HQ should direct members first to existing chapters
> Yes agreed. This *is* standard procedure.  As I explained previously 
> we omitted this step and it was not intentional. Please accept our 
> apologies for this. 
I'm willing to accept the explanation that by default ISOC does not not 
do bad things intentionally, if you accept the explanation that the ISOC 
chapters do not do bad things intentionally. Because sometimes I have 
the feeling that this is not the case.
> from:  http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/policy/
> "Chapters may be established on a *non-exclusive* basis to serve the 
> needs of any specific, cohesive community of interest. Multiple 
> Chapters serving overlapping communities are not permitted."
>
> The important point here is that the scope of the proposed Chapter 
> must be sufficiently differentiated and not overlapping.  We will (and 
> do) work with both parties to ensure that is not the case. 
You've put in bold the "non-exclusive" basis, but for Shiva and the 
members of his chapter, I guess the more important part is the "not 
permitted" part.
> I hope this explains some of our general procedures. As I said before 
> we are working to revise the procedures and improve our current policy 
> framework, so I will be reaching out to many of those that have posted 
> and have an interest on this topic for help with this particular piece 
> of work.
Do you think that a revision of the policy framework will be enough? May 
be I've missed it, but I haven't seen increasing the importance of the 
chapters in the ISOC governance model, which could be the only way to 
show all chapters that they indeed do matter for ISOC. I can understand 
your and your colleagues frustration, as it seems that a huge discussion 
only starts, when there is a problem, but don't forget - many of the 
*good *things we do locally are never coming to your attention as well. 
But if we do something, which someone (be that a chapter member, a 
non-member, or just a fake email address) believes is not good, you are 
also fast on reacting by reaching out to the chapters, asking them 
questions, initiating investigations in some cases, etc.

So, if you are seriously considering improvement of the policy 
framework, I believe that many chapters are still wondering why they can 
elect only 3 of the Board Trustees, while the organizational members 
elect 6. This is the only real measurement on the importance of the 
chapters - the right to vote and elect.

best,
veni
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