[Chapter-delegates] Seeking ISP contacts

[Joly MacFie]

​As mentioned Drew is no longer with ISOC.

The New York Chapter has never, ever, had success involving the local
organizational members in our activities, at least this century. We really
made a strong effort for the INET back in ​2011
<http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/11/ny.shtml> when Sally was
Region Manager, and with back up from Drew, but the only local sponsor NYI
was someone we actually recruited, who then became a member.  Vint brought
Google, Drew brought UPS.

We look enviously at ISOC-DC in this respect, with their ties to many
corporate policy offices.

It's difficult imagining Verizon getting too enthusiastic about funding NYC
Mesh, whose basic intention is to disrupt their retail business!

j

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Dave Burstein <daveb at dslprime.com> wrote:

> 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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