[Chapter-delegates] ISOC LIVE - the reports of its death are exaggerated, but..

[Cheryl Langdon-Orr]

Vint,

My Chapter, along with many others and their many many Members , deeply
appreciate your offer to keep this invaluable services to us sll going with
your targeted and specified financial support offer; An elegant solution
(of course) and one  I trust ISOC.org will also appreciate and welcome.

Thank you, once again, for all you have done, and continue to do, for "the
Internet We Want"


Kindest regards,

Cheryl Langdon-Orr
Internet Australia Chair.

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, 00:14 vinton cerf via Chapter-delegates, <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Andrew is correct. This is a business decision for which he is responsible
> and in my view came to the correct conclusion. I have volunteered to pay
> for Joly's work beginning in May.
>
> V
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024, 08:42 Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <
> chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 07:27:08AM +0530, Sivasubramanian M wrote:
>>
>> >message. Either you as CEO could have taken a stand, asserted your powers
>> >and have done "the right thing"
>>
>> As I think I have already outlined on this list, regardless of how much I
>> like Joly both personally and professionally as a member of this community,
>> or how good I think his video production is, we did an analysis of the
>> _service_ and its use.  That analysis led us to the conclusion that the
>> service barely saw use, and therefore we could not justify continuing to
>> pay for it.  That _was_ the right thing in my opinion, as personally
>> unhappy as the conclusion makes me.
>>
>> This is no differerent to the very difficult decision to eliminate some
>> staff positions, which was _also_ the right thing regardless of how painful
>> that decision is.  Being able to separate those kinds of considerations is,
>> at bottom, a part of the very essence of my job, just as taking
>> responsibility for those decisions here before the community is another
>> part of it.  I do not pretend those things are fun.  They are, however, my
>> responsibility.
>>
>> >which are incurred every year, incurred in a possibly flawed pattern of
>> >possibly unnecessary expenditure and/ or suboptimally placed contracts.
>>
>> You are making the assumption, or perhaps levelling an accusation, that
>> we did not undertake similar analyses of other contracts that we have.  But
>> we did.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> A
>>
>> --
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