> It would however show some appreciation and recognition for all the work the chairs do in their spare time, and I think my fellow working group chairs deserve that.
Agree 100%. All the best, Stuart Stuart Gilbertson Consider IT Limited Superior IT Support www.considerit.co.uk 0131 510 0110 Please Note: This e-mail and any files that may be attached to it are for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information and is strictly confidential. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender by replying to this message. In the event that you are not the intended recipient, you must not directly or indirectly copy, print, or otherwise disseminate this message in full or in part. Consider IT Ltd takes reasonable steps to ensure that our e-mails are virus-free, and in any event, accept no liability, either for any alterations made to this e-mail by third parties, or any viruses that it may contain, howsoever arising. Consider IT Ltd reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of any such entity. On 18 January 2018 at 17:10, Sander Steffann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Erik, > > As I'm stepping down as a chair next meeting I have no benefit from this, > so I think I can speak without any conflict of interest. > > > The only ‘benefit’ of picking up the WG Chair hat … is a WG Chair lunch > somewhere during the RIPE meeting > > You mean that lunch that chairs use to do work for the community instead > of talking to their customers/friends/etc ;) > > > I asked the Executive Board during the GM, if it is possible to add a > RIPE meeting voucher for the RIPE WG Chairs as compensation. > > Considering that being a chair involves work (depending on the working > group it may be a different amount, but all chairs do work and have > responsibilities) and that the ticket price is only a smaller part of the > total cost (flights, hotel etc cost more than the meeting ticket) I think > it would be a nice token. > > I don't think this will make people dependent on the NCC as Jim fears, or > that people will suddenly become chair just to get a relatively small > discount on the total price of traveling to and attending a RIPE meeting, > or that it would influence how the working groups select their chairs in > any other way. > > It would however show some appreciation and recognition for all the work > the chairs do in their spare time, and I think my fellow working group > chairs deserve that. > > Cheers, > Sander > > >
