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

[President ISOC-KH]

+1
We too do not have much of a problem to receive free of charge meeting 
space for training sessions - even for our last Annual General Meeting. 
But to have an office (avoiding the perception of dependency on the 
provider), and to have a working unpaid secretary is another issue.

Norbert Klein
ISOC Cambodia Chapter

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On 03/29/2012 09:06 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:
> On 29/03/2012 1:02 AM, David Vyorst 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 <mailto: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.
>>
>
> I can count on fingers the number of times we might have wanted to use 
> a private office in Sydney over the course of a year - certainly not 
> worth office rental or the excessive fees of a serviced office at this 
> stage.
>
> Function and event spaces are another matter, but we are fortunate to 
> have a number of organisational members who are very willing to 
> provide us meeting rooms and function spaces in their offices for the 
> odd face-to-face board meeting, members functions and seminars, for 
> which they receive the exposure to the members attending, and our 
> acknowledgements and thanks at the microphone for their support. Being 
> an official not-for-profit organisation, I am often happily surprised 
> by the level of no-cost support we and other not-for-profits receive 
> from legal and accounting firms as part of their pro-bono support.
>
> For a sensitive meeting like David describes, my first call is to our 
> very accommodating lawyers who usually have a meeting room free.
>
>
> -- 
> Paul Brooks
> Treasurer
> Internet Society of Australia
> www.isoc-au.org.au
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