[Chapter-delegates] Day-to-day funding

Veni Markovski veni at veni.com
Tue Mar 12 04:23:36 PDT 2013


Borka,
it seems that instead of asking what the chapters can do for ISOC, we 
should ask what ISOC can do for the chapters.

After all - and that's a fact not known to all people on this list, it 
were *the chapters who provided the overwhelming support for ISOC*, when 
it was bidding to get the management of .org.
It were the chapters, who collected letters from governments, academia, 
and non-profits, to be brought against other bidders. Let me remind you, 
that some of the other bidders were also far better prepared to run a 
registry, than ISOC. Back then, ISOC was not the same organization as it 
is today, and therefore we, the chapters, have done our duty to ISOC.

best,
veni


On 03/12/2013 07:18, borka at e5.ijs.si wrote:
> +1
>
> Well said.  Our law does not  allow for non-for-profit
> association as it is  ISOC-SI  corporate members. So, we do not have any
> donations or similar income. The work is done
> by volunteers, but for how long (we are paying the
> accounting clerk as we must provide each year
> to the tax office a financial  report)?
>
> The demands to the chapters from
> ISOC staff are rising every day  and it seems that  chapters  are 
> working for an association with quite a big and  paid staff without 
> knowing  why we must do that and why we must
> change the current modest voluntary support we have from our members.
> The European chapters had a meeting in Frankfurt on December 17th,
> three or four  ISOC staff people attended the meeting but so far no 
> Minutes appeared from the meeting. However, in the same time ISOC is 
> requesting the chapters to send  Minutes from their meetings and to 
> run extensive  membership administration,  what is the basis for  that 
> request?
>
>
> With regards,
>
> Borka
> ISOC Slovenia.
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Edwin A. Opare wrote:
>
>>
>> Elver,
>>
>> Well said.
>>
>> Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions on chapter sustainability 
>> especially when
>> membership dues are not coming through and a chapter does not have any
>> corporate members and their relating support on board?
>>
>> Edwin Opare oc.org

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