[Chapter-delegates] Chapter financing

[ngnoulaye at isoc-cameroon.org]

Hi All,
I support these proposal and view of Jordi.
Thank you Jordi to bring this crucial topic on the debate.
Chapters that have a strong commitment to work deserve it. The adoption of
 financing chapters under certain criteria (Jordi quoted some),  will draw
up the ISOC community. The current operation is drawing  down,
unfortunately.
But things should change.
Regards,
/Janvier Ngnoulaye
ISOC Cameroon Chapter
http://internetsociety.cm/

> Dear all,
>
> some weeks ago there was a burst of mails about how could ISOC HQ help
> chapters via subsidizing basic admin chores so chapter leaders can focus
> on mission instead of chapter administration.
>
> This is something that may not be crucial to very dynamic chapters or
> chapters in countries where law allows for corporate members, but that
> is really an issue to the ones in the deadlock of not being able to
> charge fees because they do not have enough resources to offer appealing
> payback to members.
>
> I was not in Beijing so I could not follow up on the topic, but I do not
> recall this was covered in the sessions I attended remotely.
>
>
> I'd propose to set an easy minimum common denominator goal and dates in
> order to move forward.
>
> 1- when is the deadline to enter this in the 2014 budget ?
>
> 2- can we set up a working group (staff+chapters) in order to get the
> what, how, how much, etc formal proposal before deadline set in item 1
> above ?
>
> To break the ice:
> - could it be possible for chapters to receive a monthly amount of, lets
> say, 20hours/week (ie. 1/2 FTE in local currency) to be paid if and only
> if the chapter performs a minimum of TBD specific actions/month (eg. 1
> article /week in the blog, X tweets a day, blog follows ISOC look+feel
> guidelines, 1 press release is sent every month, 1 public event a month,
> accounting and tax cleared, .... whatever TBD )
>
> Thanks for your time considering it and apologies if this is already
> running and I'm out of the loop.
>
> rgds,
> jordi
>
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> Jordi Iparraguirre
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