[Chapter-delegates] Seeking ISP contacts

[Dave Burstein]

David

Some thoughts that might help.

1- You don't need to use an intermediary with Kathy. She reads her own
email. There's every reason to work with Drew and everyone else at ISOC to
get things done. But ISOC is not a big outfit and everyone's accessible. If
you need Kathy's help, ask her.

2- Link of Verizon was a key contact for ISOC but has now retired. The DC
chapter will know who's taken up the slack. Collecting from Verizon is a
standard ISOC procedure.

3- All the larger outfits here have someone, usually the VP communications,
who can make something like this happen.

4- You need to be very specific in what you ask. Giving you a 100 megabit
web connection is very easy for any of the larger companies here and costs
them almost nothing if you pay the interconnection cost. But giving you
money probably requires several approvals.

Good luck with this. Great if we develop something good here.

Dave

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alejandro Pisanty <apisanty at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> this looks like a good opportunity for collaboration with ISOC staff,
>> including Drew Dvorshak and his office which is in contact with the donors
>> and orrganizational members of the Internet Society. I recognize a couple
>> of these companies as such members, and others could be approached for a
>> broader collaboration which would have better chances of success than a
>> single chapter's single project looking for donations/discounts in an
>> eminently operational area.
>
>
> ​Drew got up and spoke at one of the recent ​ISOC DC Pathfinder events,
> and mentioned he no longer works for ISOC. We are also lacking a North
> America Bureau Manager at present, since Paul is gone, or even a North
> America Chapter Development Manager, since Raquel moved on to policy. As
> regions go, we are the poor relation (except for webcasting :)
>
> j
>
>
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