[Chapter-delegates] Day-to-day funding

[David Vyorst]

Elver,
Please let me know what you get back on this. It is perhaps the key issue
in terms of chapter sustainability and ISOC's relationship to its chapters.



On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Elver Loho <elver.loho at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Dealing with everyday chapter issues takes a lot of time and effort.
> Last week I was sitting on the council of the Data Protection
> Inspectorate discussing legislation regarding personal data. Today I
> was at the parliament's constitutional commission discussing Open Data
> implementation. Preparing for these meetings, taking part, and later
> reporting to the board and members takes a full day's work for each
> event. And we haven't yet figured out how to fund such activities.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on how day-to-day funding has been resolved
> at your chapter?
>
> I'd like to hear about workable funding models, which would let us
> keep 2-3 salaried positions. Running all of this for no salary for
> over two years has been highly successful (NGO of the year 2012,
> prevented ACTA from being signed, biggest peaceful public protest in
> the country's history, helped create the best law of 2012 bringing
> Open Data into Estonian legislation, etc.), but I'm also broke right
> now and have no medical insurance, so, yeah... It's probably not a
> sustainable model of getting things done. And donations simply don't
> work in a small country like Estonia.
>
> Best,
> Elver Loho
> Estonia Chapter
>
> elver.loho at gmail.com
> +372 5661 6933
> skype: elver.loho
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