Steve,
Can you ensure that you have that budget available before the meeting,
hopefully at least a week before?
Also, can we have the numbers from NANOG 52 ASAP?
Thanks!
-Dave
On 9/15/11 7:28 PM, Steven Feldman wrote:
[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 <d...@temk.in
<mailto:d...@temk.in>> 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 <d...@temk.in
<mailto:d...@temk.in>> 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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