[Chapter-delegates] ISOC donations/Beyond the Net

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 10 August 2017 at 08:51, John More <morej1 at mac.com> wrote:

> I would agree that the specification that the promotion be made to
> “community leaders, press and regulators” presents problems and should be
> changed.  I would have thought it sufficient to require activity in support
> of ISOC’s general purposes and leave it to the Chapters to determine what
> was an appropriate and allowable purpose.
>

​​Agreed. It is possible that even when Chapters *do* want to do such
advocacy, they may need to keep it low-key and take care not to be on the
wrong radars.

​Language regarding localization and promotion of the ISOC mission
<https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission> is IMO sufficient
stated-out-loud direction.

The purpose is to deal with zombie Chapters where all you have is a
> leadership that does nothing except perhaps promote itself.
>

​Even self-promotion (*for the Chapter*) is not necessarily a bad idea,
because promoting the Chapter (leading to local registration in the global
ISOC member DB) ​equates by association to promoting the ISOC mission. It's
not much, but definitely non-zero.

What I think you are aiming at (and please tell me if I'm not) is (ab)use
of Chapter names, titles, status and resources for nothing more than the
resumé-building and personal advancement of otherwise-inactive "leaders".
This is a genuine problem I have seen myself, though I am at a a short-term
loss to suggest verbiage to address it.


> I also find objectionable the requirement for informing staff within 30
> days of completion of an activity/event.  Why not just provide evidence
> annually about activities (including by newsletter, copies of event
> announcements).
>

​Agreed.​

-- 
Evan Leibovitch
​Canada Chapter
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