[Chapter-delegates] FYI - ISOC statement about on Internet blocking measures in Catalonia, Spain

[Susannah Gray]

Hi Evan,
>
> The situation in the US in which ALL chapters are regional is far from 
> optimal. The Washington DC Chapter acts as a pseudo national chapter 
> by holding events attended by national policymakers and hosting the 
> American IGF. But also consider that If you are an ISOC member in 
> Texas or Florida or the country's second-largest city (Los Angeles) 
> you have no local chapter and must associate with a distant one or go 
> through the non-trivial task of creating your own.
- I am not aware of the ISOC-DC chapter ever publicly positioning itself 
as the de-facto national chapter. As John More notes, by nature of its 
location, it attracts a very different audience/membership to the one we 
here at the San Francisco-Bay Area Chapter attracts but I really don't 
see that as a problem.

-
President & Chair
San Francisco-Bay Area Internet Society Chapter
www.sfbayisoc.org


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