Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-10-09 Thread Joe Provo
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:00:35AM -0700, Steve Gibbard wrote:
[snip]
 Here's my problem with this line of reasoning:
 
 We've got a serious volunteer shortage.

 In our upcoming board election, we have four candidates for four
 open seats.  As one of those candidates, I'd like to think that
 this is because everybody really wants to vote for us, but the most
 I can really hope for is that being on the board sounds like a lot
 of work and nobody objects to us strongly enough to want to volunteer.

I humbly suggest that the folks in office should take a 
strong hand in drumming up candidates. Especially as they 
will know what sort of skills will be needed for what's on
the horizon. I presume it is still similar, but when I was 
SC Chair, homework during the election period for all 
committee members was recruiting volunteers and participating 
in a schedule  rotation of notices to mail to get different 
names in the nanog-announce mail stream.  I'm sure there are 
better methods of spreading the load.
 
 For the Program Committee, which makes NANOG conferences what
 they are, the shortage is far worse.  We have seven open seats and
 four candidates.

...and the nomination period is still open. ISTR that many 
nominations roll in during the meeting, when the drumbeating
continues.

 It seems pretty clear that the incentive structures we have now
 aren't working.  Those arguing here that they'd be volunteering
 without any further incentives are not currently volunteering, and
 neither are very many other people.

See previous paragraphs. How much outreach to new blood, or 
to people who ran before, has occured? Simply contacting 
those who ran before, but hadn't served and still had and 
interest built up a nice slate of solid candidates in years 
past. I did notice that in the change to AMS, we no longer 
have the membership list published, so it is hard for us 
on the outside to know who is eligible to be nominated.

 There are many likely causes of this.
 Partly, I think we have some volunteer fatigue.  There's been a
 whole lot of work, done by a whole lot of people, over the last
 couple of years to get the new organization off the ground and to
 keep the old one running, and a lot of those people would be quite
 justified in being burned out.  But if NANOG is going to go on, we
 need to get people to
 
 So, what do we do?

 I'm not convinced that allowing people to do large amounts of
 work towards putting on the conference in lieu of paying meeting
 fees would create a privileged class of participants.  If anything,
 getting to simply pay meeting fees and show up seems like a relative
 bargain, and charging people to attend an event they've helped to
 produce seems tacky.  But, given that a lot of peoples' employers
 pay their meeting fees anyway, and might value their employees'
 time more than they'd value the savings on meeting fees, I'm not
 sure how many new people it would get us.

Observations:
- encoding in the bylaws is micromanagement we've sought to 
  avoid previously
- blanket 'perks' regardless of level of participation are 
  eventually abused
- SC chair [and PC chair?] have had some discretion in 
  doling out at least one comp registration per meeting
- hardship and reward [as you suggest] from the chairs is 
  a logical extension of such discretion
...so if anything must be codified, IMO it should be that the
Chairs have the ability to waive registration fees for committee 
members as they see fit. Then no only do you incentive to volunteer,
but ongoing incentive to actually produce.

 Ideally, we'll get a flood of volunteers in the next few days,
 and this issue will become moot.  I started asking around yesterday
 for a volunteer to replace me as Membership Chair, and within minutes
 had found somebody bursting with ideas and eager to take on the
 role.  I'd love to see some people who would show that level of
 excitement towards the NANOG program.

Excellent way to demonstrate that outreach is key.

 But if that doesn't happen, I'm looking for ideas.  Are free or
 discounted conference fees for volunteers the right answer?  Is
 there some other incentive that would work better?  Are there people
 we should be reaching out to and trying to recruit who we haven't?

 Ideas, please.

See above for a minor adjustment that might meet this need. Also:
- At least the membership should see the member list to 
  know who to poke (behind a member portal is there is 
  paranoia about publishing member names). 
- While that is presently out of reach, more visible outreach by 
  those on the inside who *do* know.
- What plans/campaigns have the Board generated/received from our 
  staff (if any) and why were they rejected.

Cheers!

Joe
-- 
 RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE / NewNOG

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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-30 Thread Steve Feldman

On Sep 30, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Lynda wrote:

 On 9/30/2011 11:00 AM, Steve Gibbard wrote:
 
 In our upcoming board election, we have four candidates for four open
 seats.  As one of those candidates, I'd like to think that this is
 because everybody really wants to vote for us, but the most I can
 really hope for is that being on the board sounds like a lot of work
 and nobody objects to us strongly enough to want to volunteer.
 
 Just a brief question: Could someone be on the PC, and still not attend 
 physically?
 

The bylaws state:

  To be eligible to be appointed as a member of the Program Committee,
  an individual must have attended one NewNOG conference within the
  prior calendar year (12 months).

There does not seem to be any attendance requirement once selected
(though it appears one would have to attend a meeting in order to be
chosen for a second term.)

 Steve


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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-30 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Wessels, Duane dwess...@verisign.comwrote:


 On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Dave Temkin wrote:

  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?
 

 Dave and other Members:

 The slides for the financial report that I will give are now posted here:

 http://www.nanog.org/about/financial/documents/N53-Treasurer_000.pdf



Nice transparency.

Would it be possible to see a balance sheet as a standard going forward?
This is good. I'm more interested in a dashboard like report such as a
balance sheet than this board minutia. Not a complaint, suggestion. Thanks
kindly!

Best,

-M
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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-30 Thread Wessels, Duane

On Sep 30, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:

 Nice transparency. 

Thanks.

 
 Would it be possible to see a balance sheet as a standard going forward? This 
 is good. I'm more interested in a dashboard like report such as a balance 
 sheet than this board minutia. Not a complaint, suggestion. Thanks kindly!

We intend to post more detailed reports on AMS' ARO site for bonafide
members to view.  I think it would be appropriate to post the balance sheet
there and we welcome additional input on the level of detail that members
would like to see in the financial reports.

Can you clarify, would you like to see a balance sheet, say, every meeting,
every quarter, or once per year?

Duane W.
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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-30 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Wessels, Duane dwess...@verisign.comwrote:


 On Sep 30, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:


[ snip ]



 Can you clarify, would you like to see a balance sheet, say, every meeting,
 every quarter, or once per year?


Meetings.

Best,

-M
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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Temkin



On 9/30/11 10:28 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Wessels, Duane dwess...@verisign.com 
mailto:dwess...@verisign.com wrote:


On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Dave Temkin wrote:

 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?


Dave and other Members:

The slides for the financial report that I will give are now posted here:

http://www.nanog.org/about/financial/documents/N53-Treasurer_000.pdf



Nice transparency.



+1, thank you very much.

-Dave




Would it be possible to see a balance sheet as a standard going forward? This is good. I'm more interested 
in a dashboard like report such as a balance sheet than this board minutia. Not a complaint, suggestion. 
Thanks kindly!


Best,

-M


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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-20 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Steven Feldman feld...@nanog.org 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.



I lost the context in this thread related to this statement, but I'm not
sure why you need a ballot question related to day to day operations of the
organization. Less overhead == better.

Allowing volunteers that are elected and appointed to committee to have
their admission waived benefits the organization to some extent. It's likely
to widen the gene pool and provide NANOG v2 with some fresh meat, something
that we are sorely in need of and the main reason why I support this.

Best,

-M
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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-16 Thread Dave Temkin

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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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-12 Thread Dave Temkin
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 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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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-02 Thread David Temkin

On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Daniel Golding wrote:
 
 Rather, the loss of revenue to the organization and the
 potential drama around the arrangements are pretty significant. 
 
 - Daniel Golding


Possible, and I would expect the board to do their own financial analysis of 
the impact of this before either standing behind it or speaking against it.  
There are certainly other possibilities here- discounted registration?  etc.  
To me this is about recognizing those that put in 50+ hours a year in support 
of the organization in a way that, in my theory, a relatively cost-neutral 
impact.

-Dave



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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread David Temkin
For some reason I thought it was 8.  My intention was slightly less than the 
total, so perhaps 4 or 5 and to not specify a specific amount of time, given 
that some committees might meet for fewer hours than others and I wanted to 
make sure that everyone was invented to participate, not just the PC.

-Dave

On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David Temkin 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.
 
 Hmm. Six is a good number as the PC, at least, normally has exactly
 six meetings between NANOGs.
 A strong incentive for at least some to make all of the meetings.
 -- 
 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
 E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com


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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Jared Mauch

On Sep 1, 2011, at 7:08 AM, David Temkin wrote:

 For some reason I thought it was 8.  My intention was slightly less than the 
 total, so perhaps 4 or 5 and to not specify a specific amount of time, given 
 that some committees might meet for fewer hours than others and I wanted to 
 make sure that everyone was invented to participate, not just the PC.


My suggestion would be something more along the lines of:

The Board may waive registration fees for a committee member at their 
discretion and the request of the committee chair.

This allows those that may have some hardship to be individually dealt with and 
can be either needs or merit based.

The COOP that my children went to pre-school at had a similar 
hardship/participation guideline where they could waive the monthly payments 
for parents that had some hardship.  It was merit/needs based and the one case 
I was aware the person pulled more than their fair share of weight and was 
recommended by the teacher.

I would also think that this number should likely be reported (names not 
attached) as part of the post-meeting reports.  Number of registration fees 
waived by BoD: 2 

- Jared
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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Jared Mauch
I gave discretion to two people in the below wording: the committee chair and 
the board. My example was hardship but certainly not limited there. The wording 
is vague on purpose :-) it allows for discretion. 

Jared Mauch

On Sep 1, 2011, at 9:32 AM, David Temkin dav...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm not a big fan of this because I don't feel that it should only be waived 
 in the context of a hardship.  I get that that's not what you're saying, but 
 I'd rather keep the logic of the two separate - make the Committee-based 
 attendance merit based (no pun intended) and give the Board latitude to waive 
 where appropriate for things such as hardships. 
 
 -Dave
 
 On Sep 1, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
 
 
 On Sep 1, 2011, at 7:08 AM, David Temkin wrote:
 
 For some reason I thought it was 8.  My intention was slightly less than 
 the total, so perhaps 4 or 5 and to not specify a specific amount of time, 
 given that some committees might meet for fewer hours than others and I 
 wanted to make sure that everyone was invented to participate, not just the 
 PC.
 
 
 My suggestion would be something more along the lines of:
 
 The Board may waive registration fees for a committee member at their 
 discretion and the request of the committee chair.
 
 This allows those that may have some hardship to be individually dealt with 
 and can be either needs or merit based.
 
 The COOP that my children went to pre-school at had a similar 
 hardship/participation guideline where they could waive the monthly payments 
 for parents that had some hardship.  It was merit/needs based and the one 
 case I was aware the person pulled more than their fair share of weight and 
 was recommended by the teacher.
 
 I would also think that this number should likely be reported (names not 
 attached) as part of the post-meeting reports.  Number of registration fees 
 waived by BoD: 2 
 
 - Jared
 

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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Rose Klimovich
Dave, I like this idea. It will incent people to come to committee meetings. 
This will make the Nanog meetings we all attend better and more productive. 

Rose Klimovich


On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:30 AM, David Temkin 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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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Daniel Golding
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:49 PM, John Springer sprin...@inlandnet.com wrote:
 Hi David,

 I have a memory, from the community meetings where the early NEWNOG finances
 were being discussed, that it was _ABSOLUTELY_CRITICAL_ that $100/per member
 fees be implemented. If we didn't, $reallybadthings were completely certain,
 and anyone who doubted it was not in the know. Note the outdated doc here,
 which is all we appear to have to go on:
 https://newnog.org/docs/budget-2010-08.pdf cited a figure of $20,000.00 for
 2011 for memberships fees. Not far off, there are 210 names here:
 https://newnog.org/members.php plus some extra years, but say $30,000.00 for
 2011.

I think you may be having a memory problem. The reason it was
absolutely critical that the $100/member fee be implemented was 1)
cash flow (we didn't have any, and we needed to cash to do stupid,
self-serving things like putting down hotel deposits) and 2) to help
identify membership in a way that would be acceptable to the IRS (and
everyone else) for tax-exempt status. There has also been an
unanticipated but totally positive impact - the membership fee has
helped to instill a sense of ownership in the organization. Of course,
sometimes that sense of ownership manifests itself in a really nasty
way, but that's life, I guess.


 Now looking at the lists under the Governance heading here:
 http://www.nanog.org/ I see 33 committee members, depending on changing
 members and whether you include the Board. So assuming all these folks are
 completely incented by this move (and why not?), you propose to forgo the
 $1275.00 (3x$425.00 Early Bird Member Registration Fee) revenue each (they
 are all currently paying, right)? 33 X $1,275.00 = $42,075.00 per year.


Although I find your tone offensive and your implications ugly, your
numbers are correct.

 Seriously? Plus, and I mean this in the nicest possible way, and I am sure
 that the Program Committee list here:
 http://www.nanog.org/governance/program/programcommittee.php is either
 incorrect or that you will be leaving the committee structure soon enough
 that you will not personally benefit from this proposal, BUT the
 _appearance_ of a committee member proposing this suggests the
 _faintest_possible_appearance_ of impropriety to me. I am sure that I am a
 profoundly disturbed individual for even thinking this way, but just sayin'.


The committee/board membership is such a big chunk of the overall
membership (as it should be) that disqualifying them from making
proposals that could impact them financially seems ridiculous on the
face of it. However, I do agree that you appear to be profoundly
disturbed.

 If, in fact, the difficulties of staffing the committees require action, may
 we please discuss that matter on a list? Oh, I guess we are! Or has the
 discussion already taken place in camera and this proposal is the result? If
 you are the authorized spokesperson for the NANOG/NewNog structure proposing
 this, then I withdraw my innuendo of impropriety and extend my apology.


in camera - wow, how dramatic! I'll have to use that one.

There are no authorized spokesperson for the NANOG/NewNog structure
- but if we need someone, I suggest we hire the ex-Iraqi Information
Minister. That guy is really good. And as far as innuendo - you
realize that innuendo requires some degree of subtlety, right?


 But the whole thing seems a bit off to me.

 John Springer


I can't believe it, but I do agree that this is probably a bad idea.
Not because I don't trust the integrity of Dave Temkin - on the
contrary, he's a standup guy, widely admired in the Internetworking
community. Rather, the loss of revenue to the organization and the
potential drama around the arrangements are pretty significant. That
being said, I think we should approach our interactions by assuming
that everyone is acting in good faith. People will always disagree and
people will always make mistakes, but assuming EVIL and CONSPIRACIES,
while satisfying and weirdly thrilling, is probably not a good use of
anyone's time.

- Daniel Golding

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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:56:20PM -0400, Dorian Kim wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:30:49AM -0400, David Temkin 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.
 
 Speaking strictly as an individual, I don't believe this is necessary at all.
 
 While I thank those who work hard by volunteering, most of those individuals 
 would be
 attending NANOG regardless. 

/aol

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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-08-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David Temkin 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.

Hmm. Six is a good number as the PC, at least, normally has exactly
six meetings between NANOGs.
A strong incentive for at least some to make all of the meetings.
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E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

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