[Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Franck,

your comment is so unfair and out of touch that I hope you do NOT retract 
it. It is easier to attribute it to lack of sleep or something like that.

The Board of Trustees - and mind you, not only the chapters-elected 
Trustees - have a continuously increasing attention to the goings-on of 
chapters (and we all know we are far from perfect.)

It is incumbent on all to continue to increase the value instead of 
decrying a lack of recognition that may or may not be there, individually 
and in the aggregate, and fix it more with action and results than words.

To Veni's comment: every one of us who has access to communications with 
our governments is using it (I hope.) After today's chilling session in 
the UN we definitely need to step up that effort. I think that it would be 
wrong on many counts for ISOC HQ - Board, staff, or combination - to act 
as a global political party issuing calls for action to the chapters. That 
would actually be contrary to our bottom-up, edge-inward view of 
autonomous chapters coming together in a coordinated way to build up ISOC, 
wouldn't it?

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Franck Martin wrote:

> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:53:26 +1200 (FJT)
> From: Franck Martin <franck at avonsys.com>
> To: Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>
> Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum
> 
> Fred,
>
> When you and me (and a few others) were on the board, we were mindful of that, and worked a lot to get more recognition for the chapters. Sphere project was started, but after 3-4 years it only looks like to have been a smoke screen to keep the Chapters happy and not interfering with ISOC management.
>
> And the board let a budget and business plan being voted, with all the glaring gaps Christopher pointed.
>
> So no, I'm not retracting this comment.
>
> It took me that kind of electro-choc to start to have the chapters activities mentioned in the Annual Report...
>
> Fighting fire by fire, is not smart, but it is lot of fun ;)
>
> Franck Martin
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>
> Check your domain reputation: http://gurl.im/b69d4o
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Baker" <fred at cisco.com>
> To: "Franck Martin" <franck at avonsys.com>
> Cc: "Veni Markovski" <veni at veni.com>, chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 December, 2010 12:22:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
>
>> ISOC HQ is embarrassed of its chapters, if they could not exists, life would be easier for them...
>>
>> The board of trustee seems to support that view.
>
> You and I have both served on the board. Even if it were true for some chapters, I would be absolutely amazed to find that at applied generally. I think you need to retract this comment.
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