[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-NY President Resigns

Thu Apr 7 15:38:24 PDT 2016

Yes   I think Keith is  suggesting  some good  approaches  to
administration vs  board  stuff

I  have been on the board,Chair for committee and  committee member and we
have 10 committees with  monthly meetings plus  our  board  meeting.  This
 is  alot of  time just on the calls.   We  have  a split between active (
Burned out) and  inactive who are on board because it looks  right on a
resume

I am stepping down as well from  Internet Society of  Canada  but  I will
continue to  provide  adminstrative  support.  This  administration support
 includes:
-Website  updates
-CRM database maintainence
-Monthly reconcillation with Quickbooks
-Annual preparation of books for auditor
-Filing of  annual Goods and Service  Rebate
-Deposits
-Invoicing all members  using  Paypal
-Handle all emails and mails to contact at internetsociety.ca
-Payment of  Officer and Director Liability Insurance
-Maintain all files,
-Backup to  RAS  drive and secondary backup drive of  all files, pictures
 etc
-Planning for  annual conference/logistics
-Support on AGM
-Manage  Eventbrite for events
-Email via  Eventbrite and CIVICRM to membership

These are  core  practical  administrative stuff and contrary to  the board
role. and essential  for any viable chapter

Glenn

Glenn McKnight
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Keith Davidson <keith at internetnz.net.nz>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I agree with Carlos regarding the sustainability of ISOC chapters.
>
> Currently the chapter "officers" spend inordinate amounts of time on doing
> meeting minutes, treasurers functions, looking after the website, convening
> meetings, maintaining members lists, and other routine administrivia. It
> would be of extreme benefit to the chapters if ISOC could provide
> administrative staff to undertake these functions. This would free up
> considerable time for the chapter "officers" to spend on strategic thinking
> and advancing the issues of real importance to their chapters.
>
> Furthermore, ISOC would gain considerably overall by devolving its
> centralised authority, allowing more regional or local empowerment, to deal
> with the issues more critical within those communities. I feel the current
> centralised structure inhibits ISOC's ability to grow. I also sense from
> this thread there is a growing frustration with the current structure, and
> I remain hopeful that high level strategic changes are being considered by
> the board and senior staff.
>
> Cheers
>
> Keith
>
>
> On 07-Apr-16 12:51 AM, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. wrote:
>
>> Hi Vreni!
>>
>> I see it as a much broader question than just for 3 candidates to the
>> Board. There are many different paths to make chapters sustainable,
>> trough their leaders, their initiatives and else. Even by getting them
>> on ISOCs or any other 5* payrolls.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
>> +506 8837 7176
>> Skype: carlos.raulg
>> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
>> On 6 Apr 2016, at 6:34, Veni Markovski wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Carlos!
>>>
>>> Given the fact that right now is voting time, that sounds like a
>>> question, aimed at the candidates to join the Board of Trustees.
>>>
>>> Hope that they will respond?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/05/16 23:58, info at isoc.org.ec wrote:
>>>
>>>> With an every day growing staff, ISOC HQ should have a dedicated
>>>> staff to chapters, with real chapter experience and also a dedicated
>>>> program for make chapters sustainable and volunteers.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it's a good time to ask for this as a real an serious
>>>> compromise from the various candidates to the ISOC board in the next
>>>> coming election
>>>>
>>>> Carlos Vera
>>>> Internet Society Ecuador
>>>> www.isoc.org.ec
>>>> Síguenos @isocec
>>>>
>>>> El 5 abr 2016, a las 11:51 a.m., Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G.
>>>>> <crg at isoc-cr.org> escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>> @Glenn +1
>>>>>
>>>>> After spending a long year trying to get our local chapter 100%
>>>>> registered under a celar non-for profit structure in Costa Rica so
>>>>> we can even have our own bank account, we found out the ISOC does
>>>>> not even consider guaranteeing  the basic yearly support of US $
>>>>> 2´000/year we assumed as the basic support to share one part time
>>>>> person with one of our Board members………
>>>>>
>>>>> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
>>>>> +506 8837 7176
>>>>> Skype: carlos.raulg
>>>>> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Veni Markovski
>>> http://www.veni.com
>>> https://www.facebook.com/venimarkovski
>>> https://twitter.com/veni
>>>
>>> The opinions expressed above are those of the
>>> author, not of any organizations, associated
>>> with or related to him in any given way.
>>>
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