[Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?

Wed Sep 18 16:12:36 PDT 2013

Rudi,

you are a Trustee. That means that you are the boss. You were elected for that. 

Re chapter to chapter collaboration, it is happening and does not really need any action by staff or Board (it could benefit from attention and support but as we speak ISOC Mexico and ISOC Ecuador are about to hold a joint workshop on Internet Governance for the emerging leaders of both chapters to start in a couple of weeks at most.)

The same is happening in other fields. For example, we believe that high-impact Board of Trustees statements, such as those on PRISM and surveillance, should be translated and published immediately in a few languages other than English. That should be an instruction from the Board to staff.

Instead, what we have done is that ISOC Mexico translated and circulated one of the latest statements (into Spanish) and the Chapters in Spain did the same for the latest one. 

Yes, there is a program in the works to give some structure to these volunteer efforts but it will go nowhere fast if it is not a Board priority.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

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Desde: Rudi Vansnick [rudi.vansnick at isoc.be]
Enviado el: miércoles, 18 de septiembre de 2013 03:36
Hasta: Norbert Klein; Alejandro Pisanty
CC: Delegates Chapter Delegates
Asunto: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?

Dear all,

It is a pity no communication preceded the announcement. Some changes are going on without knowledge of the chapters community. I would really appreciate ISOC chapter staff would involve the chapters in such decisions. The newsletter is the channel of communication that allowed members to know what ISOC is doing / going to do and of course let chapters talk about what they do. Cutting of this channel looks to be the wrong decision.

As said earlier, and I'm referring to my proposal in Mexico 2009, I'm willing to push forward the proposal "chapters support by chapters". With some experienced and track proven chapter leaders we could build a community channel that will allow chapters to get closer inside views on how other chapters have elaborated a good platform for further expansion of their chapter. And also allow to recognize what did not work and is rather something to avoid to do so.

Always willing to help chapters ... let me know how !

A colleague chapter leader,

Rudi Vansnick

Op 18-sep.-2013, om 05:09 heeft Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> het volgende geschreven:

> +1
>
> Norbert
>
>
> On 9/18/2013 5:34 AM, Keith Davidson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wish these decisions were made from bottom-up rather than this top-down decision to dispense with the newsletter.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> On 16/09/2013 5:56 p.m., Eduard Tric wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> The newsletter is valuable push information.
>>> It also shows Isoc dynamic , pushing notable news from local chapters at global level.
>>> A blog is useful as well , but it will never replace a newsletter.
>>> Why it was abadoned ?
>>> Can this be reconsidered ?
>>> Just as an example , we distibute   the weekly european newsletter (prepared by Frederic Donck ) to all our local chapter members , and so far we've had positive feedback and very intersting reactions.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ed
>>>
>>> ----- Mesaj original -----
>>> De la: "Joyce Dogniez" <dogniez at isoc.org>
>>> Către: "Eduardo Diaz" <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com>, "Carlos Vera Quintana" <cveraq at gmail.com>
>>> cc: "ISOC Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>>> Trimis: vineri, 13 septembrie, 2013 18:50:33
>>> Subiect: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Takaaki-san, Eduardo and Carlos,
>>>
>>>
>>> I understand your question is related to the overall ISOC newsletter. We are looking into replacing this newsletter with a blog platform (to be launched early Oct) that will also offer new "subscribe" options that can be filtered by specific topics. This will allow our readers to follow general updates, as well as specific themes. It will also provide the opportunity for chapter content and updates.
>>> We will share more about this in the next coming weeks.
>>>
>>>
>>> As for the link Eduardo posted to ISOConnect, this is the Chapter Officer 'newsletter', specifically addressing available resources or information relevant to the chapter officers. Information about funding, new available resources, important information you can share with your members and communities, etc. It mainly provides links to our website as we received the feedback some information is not always easy to find or needs some highlighting once in a while.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this answers your question.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Joyce
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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