[Chapter-delegates] Seeking ISP contacts

Mon Mar 7 07:47:47 PST 2016

Hi colleagues.

David, I will be in touch with you to understand better what we need and to see how we, from the staff, can support you better.
With regard to the NA Regional Director, I guess all of you have seen that we have that position open.
We have interviewed already many people and while we are still receiving some applications, the process is well advanced. We will take a decision within the next 2 weeks. So we are very close to fix one of the situations that Joly pointed out.
Drew is unfortunately not longer working for ISOC, but we have a team of people on that area. It wasn’t just Drew.

Alejandro made a good point about how to integrate better the chapters’ activities with the willingness of our members to support them. We have talked many times about it. Let me explore how we can make improvements in that area.

Best,

Raúl

El 6 mar. 2016, a las 10:50 p.m., Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com<mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> escribió:

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<mailto: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<mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> wrote:

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alejandro Pisanty <apisanty at gmail.com<mailto: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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