[Chapter-delegates] Global INET Investment

[Ted Mooney]

Dear Chapter Delegates,

 

There has been some discussion via this list around registration pricing for
members and chapter officers wishing to attend the Global INET.  Let me take
a few sentences to review our thought process and opportunities for chapter
members to attend.

 

Because we believe this will be an extraordinary event, we wanted the
registration to be:

*	Better than market for similar events 
*	Reflective of the value of the event 
*	Affordable by a high percentage of those who want to participate
*	An opportunity to our members and to students

 

We readily undertook a pricing model that even if the event was 100% sold
out, that would still only cover a fraction of the event costs.

 

In addition, all of you are aware that a Global Chapter workshop is planned.
For this workshop we are offering a travel fellow from every chapter which
includes roundtrip airfare, room and board for the five days of Chapter
workshop and INET and free admission to the conference, so long as the
Travel Fellow applicant is considered a Young Leader and hasn't been to an
INET in the past 12 months.  We expect there will be 100 such travel
fellows.  This represents a significant investment in our chapters for this
event in addition to our other investments for chapter support, such as the
community grants program, the development of chapter dashboards, and further
development of the Internet Society chapter membership management platform
and chapter guidebook.

 

Also, and as in the past, where there is the possibility of two people
traveling, one a Travel fellowship recipient, the other not, both parties
may share the same room and ISOC will incur any additional room charges for
the length of the Workshop and INET.

 

With this solid investment in the future of the Internet for Everyone and
the Internet Society as a whole, we believe that the current registration
pricing for the global INET is very fair and provides all constituents the
best opportunity of participation and value while making a minimum
contribution to support the significant costs.

 

I hope this is helpful and that I will see you at the Global INET.

 

Ted

 

Ted Mooney

Sr. Director, Membership & Services

The Internet Society

www.isoc.org

 

Direct Line: 703.439.2774

Cell:           301.980.6446

 

 

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