[Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?

Wed Sep 18 23:48:28 PDT 2013

Dear all, 

Following Rudi's chapter-to-chapter collaboration initiative, we discussed the possible implementations during the Bucharest chapter workshop alongside the 2011 Bucharest INET. 
I know some time has passed since then, and also some strategy changes have happened - or are in course of being implemented within Isoc. 

During the Bucharest chapter workshop, a few conclusions have arisen and were unanimously agreed on by the participants, such as: 

- The Isoc chapters need to collaborate more closely in the future, have more frequent exchanges on common projects and initiatives and appeal to their membership base to advance the mission and vision of the Internet Society locally and as a whole; 

At the moment, the main tool for chapter-to-chapter collaboration is the chapters delegates list, as well as topic-specific mailing lists. 

- Chapters need to collaborate more closely with the Isoc staff, to inform of the local initiatives and to be informed of the global initiatives going on or planned to happen. 

As you may remember, following the Bucharest workshop, I have set up a proof-of-concept for what could be a collaboration platform for isoc chapters and staff at http://www.anuntul.eu/wordpress and at http://www.anuntul.eu/wiki. The response of the chapters was overwhelming at the point where the PoC was set up. As of today, there are 84 registered users. 

However the activity on the site has gradually declined due to lack of follow-up from staff and chapter delegates. 

I don't like to drop a piece of work before it has properly started. I am confident we can do better and there is a true need for collaboration and involvement from both chapters and staff, which can properly boost chapters activity, local and global relevance and make us a better organization as a whole. 

I wonder if we launch a project partner search within isoc chapters, can we apply with a multiple chapter project in the September community grants call? we could select a few chapters and develop together an action plan for enhanced chapters - staff and BoT collaboration while improving the existing PoC and animating the chapters community on current internet topics with the group of participating chapters. We could use the technologies promoted by Isoc - Dnssec and IPv6 and centralized identity to further improve the platform, currently based on opensource technologies. The objectives could be to ease the load to the chapters delegates list, channel the communication on a matrix of topics towards chapters, make isoc members talk to other members. 

Is the project idea compatible with the ongoing isoc chapter development strategy or is it overlapping with any other current or planned projects ? 

Thank you very much for your advice and feedback on this idea, 

Elena Zvarici 
Communication manager 
Internet Society Romania 
+40726128728 
http://www.isoc.ro 
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----- Mesaj original -----
| De la: "Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch" <apisan at unam.mx>
| Către: "Rudi Vansnick" <rudi.vansnick at isoc.be>, "Norbert Klein" <nhklein at gmx.net>, "Alejandro Pisanty"
| <apisan at servidor.unam.mx>
| cc: "Delegates Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
| Trimis: joi, 19 septembrie, 2013 2:12:36
| Subiect: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?
| 
| 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
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >> _______________________________________________
| >> As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically
| >> subscribed
| >> to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet
| >> Society
| >> Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org
| >
| > _______________________________________________
| > As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically
| > subscribed
| > to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet
| > Society
| > Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org
| 
| _______________________________________________
| As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically
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| to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet
| Society
| Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org
| 