[Chapter-delegates] members.isoc.orgc

[DotGreen Director]

Hi all,  :-)

I have been watching this thread, so I thought I would add my
story/experience for what its worth.

The process to join the SFBayISOC Chapter has been a challenge since Sabrina
approached me at the Mexico City ISOC meeting to discuss it.

It appeared my membership never went through, unknown to me...Therefor I was
a chapter co-founder who wasn't a member!  So I went back to try to join
ISOC again!  At the time, I was forced to join as a PAID member because
that's how the online system worked even though there appeared to be a
choice of free membership...I was unable to use that application.  Also the
names of the membership classes is not intuitive.

So I joined ISOC global as a paid member...I don't mind, but choice would
have been nice.
I don't think I was ever able to join the SFBayISOC chapter as a member via
the online mechanism.

I have the sense that some of our members havn't materialized on our
membership roster because they have been directed to ISOC Global and even
PAID when SFBay membership is free.  What concerns me besides missing out on
revenue for our chapter is if these new members are being excluded from our
local email list.  How would they know?  How would we know?

What really concerns me is the possibility that Individuals who have
purposely paid to join our chapter are not going to be invited to our
upcoming events!  and we don't know who they are and we don't have their
very needed subscription donations.

Is there some way to rescue our SFBay Chapter members who may be lost in the
Global ISOC list?  I am worried that this doesn't look good for either of
us; Chapter or Global.

Annalisa


On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:

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> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Rudi Vansnick wrote:
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>  I note that some chapters, such as Poland, still use their own sign up
>>> form, and Puerto Rico don't mess around
>>> they take you straight to paypal!!
>>>
>> Why shouldn't we not be allowed to have our own sign up form ? Do not
>> forget not everybody speaks English.
>> And one of the basic principles of a chapter is to address the local
>> community. So I would suggest chapters will always be allowed to offer local
>> sign up forms.
>>
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> Yes, we still do. And we are quite happy about our little database :)
>
> As far as I know, local signup is not discouraged, I'd say even the
> reverse.
> We should only keep data in sync with the global resource, that's all.
>
> --Marcin
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