[Apologies for cross-posting; it turns out many members are not on the
nanog-futures list.]
In our board meeting this week, we decided not to place this on this year's
ballot. We feel that as with other decisions regarding conference fees and
discounts, this is best left as an operational policy decision rather than a
corporate governance issue.
The petition process is available as an alternative if a sufficient portion
of the membership wishes to put this on the ballot without the board's
involvement.
The board has taken no position on the underlying question of waiving fees
for volunteers. We encourage continued community discussion on this topic,
both on these mailing lists and and during the open members meeting at NANOG
53. By that time, we will have a draft budget for 2012 available which will
allow us to determine the financial impact of such a policy.
Thanks,
Steve
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dave Temkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm perfectly OK with not necessarily codifying this in the bylaws; you're
> right in that the bylaws doesn't spell out admission specifically today.
>
> I guess a meta question is - should it? And if it shouldn't, is this just
> a topic to bring up at the community meeting and then ask the board to move
> on there?
>
> -Dave
>
>
>
> On 9/2/11 2:30 PM, Steve Gibbard wrote:
>
>> Speaking only for myself, and not in any official capacity...
>>
>> I think Dave's idea has merit. There is precedent for it -- we give free
>> conference admission to speakers -- so to me the question here is not
>> whether any contribution should merit free admission, but where the line
>> should be drawn.
>>
>> That said, is there a reason to put this in the bylaws? The bylaws are
>> currently silent on the subject of conference fees, meaning the board can
>> set them however it wants. If the board were to enact something like this,
>> it would have a lot of flexibility to vary the discounts and elligibility,
>> based on what sorts of incentives were needed and how much money was
>> available. If this went in as a bylaw ammendment, changing it later would
>> be cumbersome.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:30 AM, David Temkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>>
>>> I would like to propose an amendment to the bylaws for the coming
>>> election cycle.
>>>
>>> The various committees put in many tireless hours of effort to bring a
>>> content rich, well attended, well sponsored meeting to our attendees. In
>>> return they generally get a free lunch and a brief thank you. I propose
>>> that any committee member who attends six or more committee meetings between
>>> NANOG meetings is entitled to a free registration for the upcoming meeting.
>>> Attendance would be gauged by the chair of the committee and this would only
>>> be available as a benefit to sanctioned committees.
>>>
>>> I'll keep this short and sweet, however I feel that this is the least
>>> that we can do for our hard working committee members. I would ask that the
>>> Board sponsor this for the upcoming election, however if they choose not to
>>> I think we can put this out to petition.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Dave
>>>
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