[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-NY President Resigns

Fri Apr 8 04:16:02 PDT 2016

@Richard Thank you!!!

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
+506 8837 7176
Skype: carlos.raulg
Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
On 8 Apr 2016, at 0:05, Richard Hill wrote:

> I have taken very careful note of these discussions and I will raise 
> the issue in the Chapters Advisory Committee. 
>
> Best Richard
>
>
> Sent from Samsung Mobile.
>
> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Carlos Raúl 
> Gutiérrez G." <crg at isoc-cr.org> </div><div>Date:08/04/2016  00:53  
> (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: Keith Davidson <keith at internetnz.net.nz> 
> </div><div>Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org </div><div>Subject: 
> Re: [Chapter-delegates] ISOC-NY President Resigns </div><div>
> </div>Thank you Keith,
>
> hope at least the Chapter Advisory Committee takes note. This issues 
> are
> not directly included in the survey.
>
> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
> +506 8837 7176
> Skype: carlos.raulg
> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
> On 7 Apr 2016, at 14:54, Keith Davidson 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.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> 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
>>
>> ---
>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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