[Chapter-delegates] questions to the candidates for the BoT

Wed Apr 6 14:10:14 PDT 2016

Thanks, Judith.
I managed to follow your instructions, and found the invitation.
You were right about the link - it's not working, unless you copy and 
paste it manually.

I will follow the discussions on the website, although I find this 
extremely uncomfortable.
We have had discussions in the past about the Connect, or whatever it is 
called. It is not a friendly platform (e.g. cannot have a working URL? 
Really? In 2016??) When one edits their profile, it throws them back to 
the main menu (instead to the the one just edited, to avoid multiple and 
useless clicks...), etc.

Anyway, on the elections - would it be possible for ISOC staff to 
provide some statistics as to how many unique visitors actually looked 
at these questions? Also, I see only 75 members of this discussion 
group. Does that mean quarter of the voting delegates have not yet 
logged in the site, so they may not actually know who are the 
candidates, what they think, etc.?

I understand one needs an invitation to read the discussion. I would 
have understand, if one needs such to ask a question, but why would 
reading it be limited to specially invited people?

Hope someone can answer to these questions...

On 04/06/16 13:04, Judith Hellerstein wrote:
> HI All,
>
> Veni suggested I post this info to the list of how to see the forum. I 
> also could not find it despite searching on Connect. Finally Olga 
> provided the link but as Hans says unless you ae part of that group 
> you can not see any of the discussions.  However after searching the 
> site I found out how to get on.  After you log on to Connect, look for 
> your Inbox and messages. In your Inbox you will find a message from 
> Hans there. Hans sent a link to join the discussion. In my version the 
> link was not clickable so you need to copy the link from there and 
> then you get a box to subscribe to it.  Once you do that then you 
> should be subscribed to the site and able to get the questions and 
> answers emailed to you and also to see them on the site.  This was an 
> extremely complicated, frustrating, and not user friendly way of doing 
> something which should have been simple ans easy
>
> Hope this helps people navigate
>
> Best,
> Judith
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> On 4/6/2016 12:35 PM, Veni Markovski wrote:
>> Thanks.
>> I am surprised that the voting chapter delegates are not subscribed 
>> automatically, but we have to email elections at isoc.org (I've BCC:ed 
>> them).
>> I logged in - no such forum. Now they will probably send me 
>> something, which I have to click, and then confirm, in order to sign 
>> up. Extremely user-unfriendly.
>>
>> I've setup to receive everything by email, but obviously I am not 
>> getting the candidates' discussions. If I were a candidate, I would 
>> be worried that my message doesn't get to the people, who vote for me.
>>
>> v
>>
>> On 04/06/16 11:34, Hans Peter Dittler wrote:
>>>
>>> Hallo Veni,
>>>
>>> hello everybody,
>>>
>>> You were asking for the links to the discussion forum for the elections.
>>>
>>> The question and answers of the candidates can be found in Connect. 
>>> Both forums are closed and visible to invited users only. There is a 
>>> forum setup on connect for the chapters candidates and another one 
>>> for the organizational members.
>>>
>>> Invitations were send out to all voting delegates and to the members 
>>> of the chapter-delegates list.
>>>
>>> If you need support accessing those, please send an email to 
>>> elections at isoc.org <mailto:elections at isoc.org>.
>>>
>>> And yes I understand your reservations to use Connect. For the time 
>>> being (for this year´s election) it is the medium provided to us and 
>>> used by ISOC. Be assured that  your complains are received.
>>>
>>> We heard voices who do not like to use mailing lists for this kind 
>>> of question and answer exchange and believe the format of social 
>>> media and of a discussion forum is better suited. But there are also 
>>> people who prefer text only mailing lists.
>>>
>>> For the time being questions from the delegates list are copied 
>>> manually into Connect. You can setup your preferences in Connect to 
>>> receive all questions and answers in email-format or as digest if 
>>> you want.
>>>
>>> I know this is less than optimal but best we can achieve for this 
>>> election
>>>
>>> Hans Peter Dittler
>>>
>>> (election committee chair)
>>>
>>> Hans Peter Dittler
>>>
>>> CEO Braintec Netzwerk-Consulting
>>>
>>> President ISOC.DE (Internet Society German Chapter e.V.)
>>>
>>> Member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Best,
>> Veni Markovski
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>> https://www.facebook.com/venimarkovski
>> https://twitter.com/veni
>>
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>> with or related to him in any given way.
>>
>>
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Best,
Veni Markovski
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