[Chapter-delegates] Chapter advice on live streaming

[Eduardo Diaz]

Ted:

Can you indicate how many Board members needed to be at consensus?

-ed

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 7:37 AM Ted Hardie via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Hi Olivier,
>
> The board has an active mailing list and informal meetings once a month
> (though August's meeting did not occur this year because of low
> availability).  The discussion took place mostly on the mailing list, along
> with trustees' edits of a proposal using online tools.  Because this
> response did not require a resolution, confirmation of agreement was
> assessed on the list and confirmed at the September informal meeting,
> earlier this week.  None of those methods generate minutes in the formal
> sense, but I can confirm that there was consensus for the response.
>
> regards,
>
> Ted Hardie
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 12:16 PM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Ted,
>>
>> I acknowledge receipt of your response, which I have reviewed with
>> interest.
>>
>> The Chapter Advisory Council submitted its formal request on 17 July
>> 2024. The Board, through its Chair, issued its, I assume, formal response
>> on 13 September 2024.
>>
>> Upon reviewing the list of ISOC Board Meetings available at Internet
>> Society Board of Trustees Meetings
>> <https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/meetings/>, I have
>> not identified any meetings of the ISOC Board of Trustees occurring between
>> these dates.
>>
>> Given that this decision was made by the Board, I kindly request the
>> following:
>>
>>    - The minutes of the meeting during which the Board decided not to
>>    reinstate the ISOC.LIVE video production, editing, and archiving services.
>>
>> Warmest regards,
>>
>> Olivier Crépin-Leblond
>>
>>
>> On 13/09/2024 09:17, Ted Hardie via Chapter-delegates wrote:
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> One of the items in your recent advice to the board was a request that
>> the "ISOC funding for the ISOC.LIVE video production, editing, and
>> archiving services should be reinstated, as well as ISOC.LIVE should be
>> financially supported by ISOC on an ongoing basis."
>>
>> The board's role here is to set the direction for the organization by
>> establishing strategic goals; the details of the communication plan are a
>> part of the staff execution of those goals.  During the budget analysis of
>> 2023, the communications team analyzed the effectiveness of specific
>> streaming approaches and found that community engagement was driven
>> primarily by on-demand viewing.  This matches a broader shift common to
>> mainstream programming.  As a result of this analysis, the communications
>> plan shifted away from a retainer-based contract for live streaming to a
>> project-based funding model for future work.
>>
>> This was a staff management decision, taken with due care and analysis.
>> The board's role is to assess whether the overall communications plan is
>> effective in meeting the strategic goals; it does not direct the staff to
>> use specific contract types or contractors.  If the needs of the
>> communications plan change again to require live streaming on a full-time
>> basis, the board is confident that the staff will issue the appropriate RFP
>> and conduct the appropriate analysis of the submissions.
>>
>> The project-based funding model remains available, and chapters may, of
>> course, fund specific live streaming events using chapter funds or Beyond
>> The Net grants.  Any analysis of the effectiveness of those live streaming
>> events would be valuable data for any future considerations of the
>> engagement model.
>>
>> The board thanks the ChaC for its attention to the communications plan,
>> and we look forward to continued discussion of how to engage the broader
>> community in the mission of the society.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ted Hardie
>> for the Board
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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