[Chapter-delegates] Recent Correspondence from the Cambodian Chapter

[Veni Markovski]

See below.

On 09/29/13 10:05, Christian de Larrinaga wrote:
> Veni
>
> The point is that it is ISOC that gets the revenue flows, not the 
> chapters nor a body or foundation promoting local Internet communities 
> such as chapters. So a chapter only gets access to the .org funds 
> through ISOC. It may well be that ISOC may have not been awarded .org 
> franchise without the chapters but there was no agreement with 
> chapters on how any revenues would be divided up.

Of course there wasn't, but there were statements that no .org money 
will go to cover the expenses of ISOC, but only for public policy 
projects. We supported ISOC HQ, because we believed in it - don't 
forget, that's a long time ago, and ISOC was at the edge of bankruptcy.

>
> There is a moral duty I think for ISOC to develop local Internet 
> communities and the not for profit sector use of Internet and the .org 
> revenues are very much part of that opportunity. The chapters who 
> supported the .org bid for ISOC would seem a great place to focus on 
> to deliver that mission. ISOC Trustees have emphasised the broad 
> thrust of this intent but so far implementation has not been strong.

Agree.

> Bearing that in mind I would expect rather more than 2-3% of ISOC 
> budget for chapter led activities. But I was not talking about that 
> content led mission. I was limiting my comments to bootstrapping a 
> shared secretariat resource that Chapters could tap into so volunteers 
> are supported.  I would be very disappointed if chapter funding became 
> dominated by "secretariat" or "admin" issues. Ideally we need to try 
> to keep overheads to a very small level as proportion of overall 
> spend. We should certainly be aiming to be in the top 10% of NFP 
> bodies in this regards.

Well, 2-3 % would have been a good start - it's abot $ 1 million. 
Someone else suggested it. I was suggesting actually much bigger change 
- $ 10 Million, distributed among 100 chapters.

v.
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