[Chapter-delegates] Participation in discussions was Membership or Mission?

[David Vyorst]

+1

A DC office would be nice as well. We currently use John's home address,
and he's been rather lucky that no one has looked it up.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:53 AM, David Solomonoff <president at isoc-ny.org>wrote:

> Following on the issue of Chapter support ...
>
> Even the New York Chapter is hampered by this. We have received some grant
> money but our all-volunteer group has difficulty finding the time to both
> do the projects and produce all the documentation - and we have Joly, a
> professional videographer, as one of our most active members.
>
> We have had offers of assistance (including financial) from local ISP's we
> haven't been able to follow up on. Event space is a constant problem. After
> the controversy about Paul Brigner's appointment I invited him to visit us
> and he agreed - but I had to really hustle to get a space on short notice.
>
> Despite the fact that it's possible to do so much online I think that the
> Internet Society's credibility is hurt by not having a physical space in a
> city like New York. I was recently talking to a NYC city council staffer
> about the .nyc TLD - trying to find put what was happening with the
> application process. I explained who we were and our mission - then he
> asked me where we were located. When I told him we didn't have an office
> his tone immediately changed.
>
> That this is happening in one of the most affluent and well-wired places
> on the planet is a problem.
>
> On 3/28/12 5:05 AM, President ISOC-KH wrote:
>
>> Thanks for responding, Narelle. Let me >>>comment between the lines:
>>
>> On 03/27/2012 02:53 PM, Narelle Clark wrote:
>>
>>> I try to understand: all trustees are following, but there was no "need"
>>>> to post in response to the many serious questions raised on this
>>>> Chapters list - as being discussed these weeks?
>>>>
>>> For me it's largely a time and time zone thing.
>>>
>>> Time - this is a voluntary position
>>>
>> >>> Same for most of us.
>>
>>> on top of my full time job
>>>
>> >>> Same for many of us.
>>
>>> and
>>> Presidency of the Au Chapter.
>>>
>> >>> Same for some of us.
>>
>>> I am also a wife, mother, daughter,
>>>
>> or husband, father, son
>>
>>> and friend. To be honest, I love all of these roles very much and in
>>> different
>>> ways!
>>>
>> Probably same.
>>
>>> Time zone - the bulk of our participating membership is in time zones out
>>> of wack with mine, so much happens when I am asleep.
>>>
>> Here I do not follow: I am in Cambodia, also "out of wack" - but only
>> when it is online webinars or the like.
>> There is no problem to participate in the off-line discussion on
>> chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.**org <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>>
>>  So to sum it all up, for me if something has been pointed out before I
>>> get
>>> to it I won't feel the need to say it again. Generally I consider that
>>> ideas mean more than people to a debate. This is not always, however, the
>>> case. Therefore, please accept I do what I can when I can as well as I
>>> can. Sometimes that's more, and sometimes that's less.
>>>
>> Same - but here is the big difference between us volunteers (busy with
>> our normal obligations apart from ISOC, and and ISOC staff, no?
>>
>>> best regards
>>>
>>>
>>> Narelle
>>>
>>
>> On 27 Mar 2012 17:26:54 africa fest <africafest at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> But feedback from the Board is also part of the evolutionary process. We
>> must engage each other as often as possible to make our Society a more
>> perfect body. So sounding back in the debates ensures that we know you hear
>> us and we do not have an omni-(xxx) body out there who are above us
>> commoners.
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>> =
>>
>> My best greetings to all the other unpaid volunteers, and to the paid
>> staff pleading for an understanding when a small chapter needs help as a
>> chapter, not for projects only, and responses online.
>>
>> Norbert
>>
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