[Chapter-delegates] Elections, Polls, Electorate

[Carlos Raul Gutierrez]

@Ricardo +1

Carlos Raúl GUTIERREZ
Apartado 1571-1000
San José COSTA RICA
On Mar 16, 2016 2:23 AM, "Ricardo Holmquist" <rihogris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Olivier,
> In our chapter we do only acept the members whose address are in the
> country, or the citizens of the country living abroad. This rules are in
> our statutes.
>
> Yes we do have the problem with the ISOC membership, since ISOC "only"
> requires a valid email address, maybe this was useful 20 years ago, with
> very few free email systems, nowadays, you might enter with 10 different
> emails, most chapters do not charge, global ISOC do not charge. I do expect
> that someday ISOC changes that, and requires more info, like country,
> address (at least a city), full name, clearly indicate that it must be a
> natural person, not a company (and if you are a company enter as a
> company).
>
> ISOC has now like 100.000 members, and by the efforts of chapters and
> global ISOC is recognized worlwide, so lets get serious about our
> membership, some days we need to look back and really now who are we
> representing when we speak as organized civil society.
>
> Excellent idea the poll previous to the elections!.
>
> Regards
>
> Ricardo Holmquist
>
> On Tuesday, 15 March 2016, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> when it comes to the forthcoming elections, our chapter has in the past
>> conducted straw polls of our "members" to give our leadership team a
>> better idea of the candidate the Chapter should support.
>>
>> We do not charge fees and have over 3000 "members" both in the UK and
>> abroad. I use the quotation mark because the membership is listed on the
>> Internet Society AMS system, as people who are interested in the UK
>> Chapter's activities.
>>
>> Recently the question arose in our chapter as to who were our Chapter's
>> electorate. Is it the 3000+ names listed in the AMS system? Some might
>> say that it is not, since these names are unverified. Half of these
>> names are based abroad. So, if your chapter is without paid members, how
>> do you define your Chapter's electorate?
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>>
>> Olivier
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