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

[President ISOC-KH]

On 03/28/2012 10:09 PM, cdel.firsthand.net wrote:
> 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

Sorry, what are DIDs?  I Google'd around, the closest I thought is this:

"Direct inward dialing (DID), also called direct dial-in (DDI) in Europe 
and Oceania, is a feature offered by telephone companies for use with 
their customers' private branch exchange (PBX) systems."

Not being in Europe and Oceania (as Wikipedia say) seems to be an excuse 
for not  knowing that I am out of wack, with both DIDs and DIDIs. No, we 
don't have these.

And "several providers [could] provide basic services" to us? Which of 
the dozen ISPs, in fierce competition with each other, should we choose 
to publicly identify with?

But we are not a "key location" in the world anyway, our world is not 
"pretty standard."

Thanks to CW, I feel often the same: Yes, we seem to be on a different 
planet from those who live by the slogan "The Internet is for everyone" 
- though we still have these words on our website.


Norbert

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