[Chapter-delegates] Plea for a "congrats" mailing list

Sat May 7 07:46:51 PDT 2016

Small typo correction, my email was on 27th instead of 17th.

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Babu Ram Aryal <babu at isoc.org.np> wrote:

> Dear Carlos and all.
>
> I've already send official invitation of Chapter AC meeting via Connect
> platform on 17th April. Yes, I was supposed to send a reminder/follow up
> email to participate the meeting. I'd send the Zoom link as well. Below is
> the official email that I did send. I will send again to ensure
> participation of members. Please mark your calendar and download the Zoom
> before joining the meeting.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best
> Babu Ram Aryal
> Secretary, Chapter AC Steering Committee/
> President, ISOC Nepal Chapter.
>
> XXX
> Chapters Advisory Council
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> Apr 27, 2016 5:02 AM
> Babu Ram Aryal
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>
> Dear delegates to the Chapters AC,
>
> It is my pleasure to Invite you to participate the Chapter Advisory
> Council meeting, pursuant to Clause 7 of the Charter. This is first
> Annual meeting of the Chapters AC and it will take place via ZOOM, on 17
> May at 13h00 UTC.
>
> The ZOOM link is: isoc.zoom.us/j/171894397
>
> The draft agenda of the meeting is:
>
>    1. Approval of the agenda,
>    2. Endorsement of the Steering Committee
>    3. Approval of the Rules and Procedures
>    4. Report from the Chair
>    5. Survey
>    6. Other activities
>    7. Scheduling of future meetings (there should be 3 meetings per year
>    under the charter of Chapter AC)
>    8. Comments from the delegates
>    9. Any other business
>
> Thank you.
>
> With best regards,
> ------------------------------
> Babu Ram Aryal
> Secretary,
> Steering Committee,
> Chapter Advisory Council,
> Internet Society
> ------------------------------
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <crg at isoc-cr.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Klaus,
>>
>> supposedly we have the first ChAC call in a few days (still have not see
>> a formal invitation). Lets hope the call goes so well, it is full of ideas
>> and we can motivate a great deal of volunteers to keep working on Cross
>> Chapters issues, that we may congratulate ourselves afterwards for the time
>> spent online.
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
>> ISOC Costa Rica
>> +506 8837 7176
>> Skype: carlos.raulg
>> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
>> On 7 May 2016, at 1:07, Klaus Birkenbihl wrote:
>>
>> Dear chapter delegates,
>>>
>>> great things are happening. BOT elections, chapter leaders get elected
>>> and many of us want to express their enthusiastic appreciation and
>>> **congratulate** the winners. They don't address them in person since there
>>> is this wonderful Chapter-delegates mailing list. Writing to the list will
>>> reach the addressees and has the wonderful side effect that other members
>>> of the list can participate and learn 100+ ways to say
>>> "**congratulations**" in English. Frankly I think has a much bigger
>>> potential than we use today. Since I don't have the exact figures and my
>>> math is not very good I'll work with some reasonable assumptions for an
>>> estimation of what we could achieve.
>>>
>>> Let's assume there are 120 chapters, Let's further assume there are 4
>>> officers av. of each chapter on chapter delegates. Let's assume further
>>> that every chapter has a 2 years election period. And lets assume that
>>> every member on the chapters delegates list due-fully sends **congrats** to
>>> the list after an election. So here the calculation:
>>>
>>> 120/2 elections/year * 400 chapter delegates (sender) * 400 chapter
>>> delegates (receiver) = 9.6Mio mails a year or 27K mails per day or 18 mails
>>> per minute. Looking at the **congrats** traffic we generate today I state:
>>>
>>>   1. we are good
>>>   2. we could do more
>>>   3. we are steadily improving
>>> Just **90%** of the most recent 50 mails on Chapter-delegates were of
>>> type **congrats**. Not only to further improve this value and approach the
>>> estimated max but also to avoid conflicts with all ignorant participants on
>>> the list, who consider messages of type **congrats** as a subclass of type
>>> **spam** I'd like to propose to have a mailing list dedicated to this type
>>> of messages.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for tutorials and other educational means on how to use
>>> this mailing list - once it is set up - for messages of type **congrats**
>>> are very welcome.
>>>
>>> Looking forward ...
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>>
>>>
>>>     --
>>>     Klaus Birkenbihl
>>>     Treasurer and Board member
>>>     Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
>>>     c/o ict-Media GmbH
>>>     [http://www.isoc.de/](http://www.isoc.de/)
>>>
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>>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Advocate Babu Ram Aryal
> President,
> Internet Society [ISOC] Nepal Chapter
> POB 15103
> House#45, Mirmire Marga,
> Anamnagar, Kathmandu
> Nepal
>
> Phone: +977-1-4245841/4243071
> Cell: +977-9851048401
> URL: www.isoc.org.np <http://www.ioc.org.np>
> Twitter: @isocnepal
> Skype: baburam.aryal
>

-- 
Advocate Babu Ram Aryal
President,
Internet Society [ISOC] Nepal Chapter
POB 15103
House#45, Mirmire Marga,
Anamnagar, Kathmandu
Nepal

Phone: +977-1-4245841/4243071
Cell: +977-9851048401
URL: www.isoc.org.np <http://www.ioc.org.np>
Twitter: @isocnepal
Skype: baburam.aryal
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