[Chapter-delegates] Chapter advice on live streaming
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
ocl at gih.com
Sun Sep 15 05:27:37 PDT 2024
Dear Ted,
Thank you for informing us that there were no objections. Based on your
communication, it appears that there is unanimous approval.
I am quite surprised by this outcome, as some Board members had
previously expressed concerns, and I was not aware that their positions
had changed. I kindly request that the Board members on this mailing
list provide an explanation for their change in stance and the rationale
behind the decision to cease funding a vital Chapter and communication
resource.
Kind regards,
Olivier
On 13/09/2024 14:13, Ted Hardie wrote:
> 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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