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

Wed Mar 28 08:09:14 PDT 2012

There are  virtual and hot desk office providers with meeting rooms in many key locations around the world. It is likely possible to do a deal centrally with one or more providers to provide basic professional address, hot desk, and secretarial coverage for ISOC and chapters with a discounted rate for room hire either permanent or on demand basis.

Likewise for DIDs and A-Z telephone termination rates. this is all pretty standard stuff. 

Christian de Larrinaga

On 28 Mar 2012, at 15:02, David Vyorst <dvyorst at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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
> 
> 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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