Hi APNIC since few meetings cover all expense for the chair(hotel flight etc), so free meeting ticket seems quite reasonable.
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 07:13 Stuart Gilbertson | Consider IT Limited < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> > -- -- Best Regards, Heng Lu CEO Larus Cloud Service Limited Tel: +852 2988-8918 <javascript:void(0);> E-mail: [email protected] Address: Flat B5, 11/F, TML Tower, No.3 Hoi Shing Road, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong <https://maps.google.com/?q=No.3+Hoi+Shing+Road,+Tsuen+Wan,+Hong+Kong&entry=gmail&source=g> Website: https://www.laruscloudservice.net/
