[Chapter-delegates] CHAC Steering Committee Elections - Vote Now!

Christine Saegesser saegesser at isoc.org
Mon Nov 12 00:06:19 PST 2018 

Dear Joly, dear all, 

The invitation for the Chapter Advisory Council Steering Committee candidates to present themselves on the full Chapter leaders list (as opposed to the Chapter Advisory Council list) was on purpose with the intention to let all Chapter officers help their respective Chapter Advisory Council representative make an informed decision. While the Chapter Advisory Council representatives will receive the actual voting ballot later today, the decision on who to vote for should not be a personal one, but that of the Chapter as a group. 

And, FYI: All Chapter leaders worldwide are automatically subscribed to both the Chapter leaders community on Connect and the Chapter-Delegates list. These lists have been maintained in parallel over the last few years to accommodate the preferences of certain Chapters. However, we will indeed need to streamline our communications going forward to reduce the number of e-mails over these different lists, also to avoid cross-postings going forward. 

Having said that, a Chapter/member volunteer working group will start its work shortly to discuss and document the highs and lows experienced with the Connect platform to help us move forward with our communication tools. This particular working group is still open for new volunteers to join. See the details below.  Please do reach out to me at <saegesser at isoc.org> if you are interested in participating in this discussion. 

Best regards, 

Christine


CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
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2) Connect Engagement Platform
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- Description: Discuss and document the highs and lows experienced through the platform. As we move forward with new communication tools, we want to hear feedback on what members like from the platform, don't like from the platform, and would like to see as a feature on the platform. Whether you are an active Connect user or not we want to hear from you. As an active user, your likes, dislikes and improvements you would like to see. As an inactive user, dislikes for not using platform, possible likes of the platform, what improvements that could be made that would have you more active in the platform

- Volunteer profile: 1) Individuals who have used the Connect platform over the last few years and who would be ready to share details of their user experience (What works? What doesn't?), 2) Individuals who have not used the Connect platform over the last few years (We'd like to learn more about why this is). 

- Number of volunteers: To ensure input and feedback from all region, we will determine the number of volunteers based on the level of responses we receive to have at least one representative from all 6 regions join this group. 

- Estimated time needed: Two to three 1-hour Zoom calls, and 2-3 hours in between of online collaboration (Box & Connect). Starting November 2018 – January 2019.

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Internet Society (ISOC)
Christine Saegesser Baethge
Senior Manager Global Chapter Development
Website: www.InternetSociety.org
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> On 12. Nov 2018, at 05:42, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
> 
> I believe we are back to the perennial and apparently unresolved problem of confusion over mailing lists.
> 
> In brief - the longstanding 'Chapter-Delegates' mailman is actually a Chapter Leaders list to which all Chapter Officers on the AMS are automatically subscribed.  None of whom have a vote in the ChAC SC election (unless of course they are designated ChAC delegates)
> 
> Meanwhile, the actual ChaC Delegates can only exclusively collectively be addressed via a Connect Community.
> 
> Last time round Eduardo Diaz proposed the following solution. What happened with that?
> 
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 10:01 AM Eduardo Diaz <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is what I recommended i the last AC-SC meeting (no quorum to approve though):
> 
> The following two lists are accessed only as a group list by email (i.e. they do not exist in ISOC Connect):
> 	• chaptersac-sc at elists.isoc.org : 
> 	• Chapter Advisory Council Steering Committee members and interested staff only. 
> 	• This list is maintained manually by ISOC staff and the Chapter AC-SC Secretary.
> 	• chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org :
> 	• All Chapter Officers which have been identified in the ISOC AMS system and interested staff only. 
> 	• Chapter officers are but not limited to Chair, Vice-chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Chapter Board Members, etc. 
> 	• This list is maintained manually by ISOC staff but I do not know how it is synchronized with the ISOC AMS system or how often.
> 
> Tthe following two are accessed only through ISOC Connect (i.e. can not be accessed as a group mailing list) 
> 	• Chapter Advisory Council
> 	• Chapter Advisory Council Representatives and staff only. 
> 	• They are the people that appear HERE
> 	• Maintained automatically by selecting those chapters officers identified as Chapter Advisory Council Representative in the ISOC AMS system.
> 	• Chapter Leaders Community 
> 	• All Chapter Officers which have been identified in the ISOC AMS system and interested staff only. 
> 	• Chapter officers are but not limited to Chair, Vice-chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Chapter Board Members, etc. 
> 	• Maintained automatically by selecting all chapters officers identified in the ISOC AMS system.
> 
> The main problem is between chapter-delegates (mailman) and Chapter Leaders Community (Connect). They contain the same people. 
> 
> My recommendation is to archive both Connect list (i.e. not to be used further) and create a chapters_ac at elists.isoc.org in mailman for the use of the all Advisory Council members. This list should be maintained automatically (or manually by staff) by selecting those chapters officers identified as Chapter Advisory Council Representative in the ISOC AMS system. Also,  continue the use of the chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org mailman list. This list should be maintained automatically (or manually by staff) by selecting chapters officers identified in the ISOC AMS system. 
> 
> -ed
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 8:33 PM Susannah Gray <susannah.gray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Chapter Delegates,
> 
> I am honoured to be standing in this year’s Chapter Advisory Council 
> Steering Committee Elections and hope that you will consider voting for me.
> 
> I have served as the San Francisco Bay Area Internet Society Chapter 
> President since 2016. Further, as a strategic communications expert with 
> a background in Internet governance and multi-stakeholder, 
> community-driven processes, I have spent the last 15 years promoting and 
> protecting the concept of an open, inclusive and sustainable Internet as 
> part of the Internet technical community.
> 
> Currently based in the US, I grew up in the UK/Europe and have worked 
> with Internet industry organisations across Europe, the US, Africa and 
> Asia Pacific, which has given me an in-depth understanding of the global 
> Internet ecosystem and the issues faced by Internet users around the world.
> 
> With a new CEO on board, we can expect to see changes to the Internet 
> Society over the coming months. With a direct link to the Board of 
> Trustees and to the CEO, the CHAC Steering Committee is in a unique 
> position to guide some of these changes. It is therefore imperative that 
> all Chapters make their ideas and concerns heard so that the Chapters’ 
> needs are taken into consideration as the Internet Society evolves.
> 
> To ensure that this happens, I believe it is necessary to improve 
> communication methods at all levels of the organisation and to 
> facilitate more dialogue between the Chapters, the CHAC Steering 
> Committee and the Board of Trustees/CEO. As part of the CHAC Steering 
> Committee, I look forward to embracing the bottom-up ethos of the 
> Internet Society by representing all Chapters and bringing the matters 
> that concern them the most to the fore.
> 
> You can find out more about me and my background at:
> - https://www.sfbayisoc.org/board/
> 
> and
> 
> - https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannahgray/
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Susannah
> 
> 
> Susannah Gray
> President
> San Francisco Bay Area Internet Society Chapter
> www.sfbayisoc.org
> 
> 
> 
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