[Chapter-delegates] Elections, Polls, Electorate

[Christian de Larrinaga]

Personally speaking I wouldn't rule out the possibility of inviting
other chapters to participate in structured ways. A chapter can be a
focus for a community who support open Internet for everyone locally in
UK. Having strong connections with other chapters could be both nice and
helpful. 

But for the time being the issue that Olivier was asking about remains
how to engage those people ISOC calls individual members but affords no
membership role other than belonging to a list that can't satisfy UK
electoral rules.

One complication he did not mention; which is the status of a member of
an association in the UK carries unlimited personal liability. This can
be easily dealt with provided there are a few thousand GBP available to
the chapter annually for this purpose.  But it is another factor we need
to consider before defining the status of those on the AMS list for the
chapter.

Please keep the comments coming. This is very helpful.


Christian


> Sivasubramanian M <mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com>
> 17 March 2016 at 19:39
> ​ISOC England could think of a NOMCOM like process, involving those of
> the active members as well as one or two leaders from other Chapters,
> with some basic accountability guidelines.​
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> Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
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> Leah Symekher <mailto:leahs at isc.org>
> 17 March 2016 at 19:01
> Hello:
>
> With close to 2000 regional and global members SFBay Area ISOC Chapter
> has had the same struggles with its membership. Last year we went
> through a painful exercise to identify active and informational only
> members so we could better focus our communication and engagement.
> During the board election only the active members voted. We still have
> some way to go but I like the ideas shared in this email string.  The
> ISOC membership database and Connect have been somewhat helpful but a
> challenge as well especially for targeted communication.
>
> Regards,
> Leah Symekher
> SFBay Area ISOC Chapter
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> Christian de Larrinaga <mailto:cdel at firsthand.net>
> 16 March 2016 at 16:25
> Amir, How do you keep tabs of this?
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> Christian
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> Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <mailto:ocl at gih.com>
> 16 March 2016 at 00:47
> 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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