[Chapter-delegates] Chapter advice on live streaming

[Ted Hardie]

Hi Eduardo,

If I understand your question correctly, you are asking if this was a rough
consensus with some dissent? There were no objections.

regards,

Ted Hardie

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 1:33 PM Eduardo Diaz <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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