[Chapter-delegates] ISOC Board meetings are happening this weekend. Here is how you can listen to them.
Christian de Larrinaga
cdel at firsthand.net
Thu Nov 25 04:11:16 PST 2021
Thanks for your full reply George - and all you are doing again at
the BOT.
As you will note I got an administrative response from Andrew. The
BOT will I think need to consider the longer range priorities and
check if structures actually fit with those rather than continuing
them from blown together consequences of wishful events that did
not pan out.
Your point about the Advisory role of chapters is helpful
too. Maybe someone in the Advisory body for chapters can take the
lead here and start a discussion to help guide practical
approaches to a global perspective? It would be very helpful if
those participating in the advisory roles used the broader chapter
list to build agenda and only used their own list if they have one
for internal organisational matters.
Christian
On Fri 19 Nov 2021 at 15:57, George Sadowsky
<george.sadowsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Christian,
>
> Thanks for responding to my note. See insertions below.
>
> I would say that ISOC is in the process of providing more
> information
> about its activities and opportunities to the IOC community. I
> encourage you to point out areas where you believe that more
> information
> would be helpful to you. For example, receiving timely
> notification of
> upcoming Board meetings and ways to listen to them, in real time
> and
> later, might be one area in which we could improve.
>
> On Nov 19, 2021, at 7:16 AM, Christian de Larrinaga
> <cdel at firsthand.net> wrote:
>
> George,
> Thank you for publicising these meetings. I wasn't aware of
> these and
> only just read your note, a week later!
> I couldn't participate last weekend but if Joly or somebody
> has a
> recording of these sessions I will try to reserve some time to
> look
> in. I do have some sympathy with the decades of frustrations
> Veni has
> commented but who knows maybe this time ....
>
> Yes, the public parts f the meetings were recorded, ad you
> should be
> able to find links to the recordings on the ISOC web site (I
> admit that
> I've not loked for them and don't know exactly where you'll find
> them,
> but it's no secret).
>
> Does anybody understand why ISOC set up a foundation with the
> same
> board and so on?
>
> Using the same Board was a quick and easy way to start. There
> have been
> discussions about diversifying the Foundation Board, and my
> sense is
> that it will happen eventually.
>
> What the follow up is for PIR following the attempted
> divestment of
> PIR? How the flows of responsibilities, funds and
> accountability is
> working across these activities/organisations? How chapters as
> a board
> constituency are being engaged in the structure of those
> activities?
>
> I'd welcome Andrew's and Ted's comments on this and copying them
> explicitly.
>
> I am afraid I don't. But that might be because I am not paying
> sufficient attention in which case I apologise and welcome any
> links
> to documentation and activities to better inform me! I am
> becoming
> aware that the foundation is distributing funds and chapters
> are one
> amongst any who can apply for such.
>
> Yes, there are a number of programs, the majority of which I
> believe are
> oriented to chapters. The Foundation web site has an
> introduction to
> all of them.
>
> The UK chapter under Olivier's leadership has so far one
> project the
> IPv6Matrix with a phase funding in place. My observation is
> that so
> far that is working well operationally.
>
> Good.
>
> But I'm a blank if someone should ask me about how the former
> structural forms are governed and by whom, let alone if
> chapters have
> any input options into the design, modulation and oversight of
> ISOC
> and its various bits and pieces, other than vote for
> candidates for
> three board seats.
>
> This is an issue that might be called to the attention of the
> Chapter
> Advisory Committee, which should be giving the Board advice on
> the needs
> of the Chapters. I think it would help if Chapter as a group
> would have
> a mechanism for sharing their concerns in a way that would
> inform the
> organization and the Board of common concerns. There are over
> 100
> chapters, and it's unrealistic to assume that every chapter
> concern can
> be dealt with centrally. However if there are common concerns
> that
> affect a significant number of chapters, tht is worth paying
> attention
> to. The first step is to identify those common concerns.
>
> The Chapter Advisory Committee could play a significant part in
> this
> task.
>
> best Christian
>
> Thanks for writing!
>
> George
>
> On Fri 12 Nov 2021 at 23:01, George Sadowsky via
> Chapter-delegates
> <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
> ISOC Chapter liaisons,
> In thinking about your partnership with ISOC, you may be
> interested
> in
> listening to the open public parts of the 3rd quarter ISOC
> and ISOC
> Foundation Board of Trustees' meetings. They are being held
> this
> weekend, and you are invited to attend any open sessions as
> observers.
> The final agendas, times, and guidelines for observers can
> be found
> using the links below:
> ISOC Board Meeting
> https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/meetings/161/
> ISOC Foundation Board Meeting
> https://www.isocfoundation.org/meeting-agenda/f12-agenda-2/
> The meeting tomorrow, Saturday November 13th, starts at 1600
> UTC,
> and
> the meeting on Sunday, November 14th starts at 1400 UTC.
> If you have time and can listen, you may find the content of
> use in
> your
> thinking about ISOC's activities and issues.
> Andrew Sullivan, our CEO, notes that you need not do this
> synchronously
> with the meetings. Open to observers sessions are always
> recorded
> and
> are posted to YouTube for public viewing as soon as they
> practically
> can
> be. So if you would rather attend to this at a more
> convenient time
> (or
> perhaps would rather listen at 1.5x speed!), that will be
> possible
> in
> this case as in every other.
> Please feel free to distribute this information to members
> of your
> chapter.
> Best regards,
> George Sadowsky
>
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