[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-NY President Resigns

[Keith Davidson]

Hi Eduardo, all,

I do hope that the awareness raised this time, along with the strength 
of views from many chapters, will enable Raul to make a stronger case. 
If the Chapters Advisory Committee can continue with that pressure, I 
see a glimmer of hope for the future.

It would be beneficial if the chapters could come up with a relatively 
uniform concept, rather than multiple plans, as that would probably be 
more palatable at ISOC board level. The current debate does appear to be 
usefully coalescing around a single concept for funding specific 
resources...

Cheers

Keith

On 09-Apr-16 4:03 AM, Eduardo Diaz wrote:
> Keith:
>
> I have seen similar discussion threats as these popping out through the
> years with no aval. It is very frustrating specially if the answers that
> we get are the same ones every time.
>
> I hope that the Chapter Advisory Committee will be able to make a
> difference here.
>
> We'll see.
>
> Eduardo Diaz
> ISOC-Puerto Rico
>
>   Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:55 PM Keith Davidson <keith at internetnz.net.nz
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <mailto: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
>      >>
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>      >> with or related to him in any given way.
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