Re: [Community-Discuss] Closed members and recovered resources

2017-06-26 Thread Andrew Alston
Hi Sunday, Ok – now we have a problem – let me quote what you said: "This report is intended solely for the information and use of the audit committee and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties." Now, let me quote from the bylaws: 7.6 The

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closed members and recovered resources

2017-06-26 Thread Sunday Folayan
Dear Community members, The Board has confirmed from the auditors that the Management letter is not part of the Audit Report. The cover note of the Management letter indeed has a part that reads *"This report is intended solely for the information and use of the audit** **committee and

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about transparency

2017-06-26 Thread sm+afrinic
Hello, At 04:02 AM 6/26/2017, Chevalier du Borg wrote: But there must be reason for which AfriNIC pay air flight, hotel and allowance for you (or any board member) to travel to a not-AfriNIC meeting right? It ok, if community agree that it's a benefit of being board member. Let just declare

[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: Call for Papers Now Out!

2017-06-26 Thread Mark Tinka
Hello all. It gives me great pleasure to announce that the SAFNOG-3 Call for Papers is now out. You may review the CfP and all relevant submission details at the link below: http://safnog.org/papers.html We are working hard to put together an exciting, educational, informative and

Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Annual Financial Statements 2016

2017-06-26 Thread Badru Ntege
Mike What you are suggesting is a result of what happens in an organization when trust is erroded. As much as I think this might work I do not beleive it's what we want. I would like the return of the spirit within Afrinic was born. An error where we trusted each other and the board had

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about transparency

2017-06-26 Thread Chevalier du Borg
2017-06-26 12:23 GMT+04:00 : > I met several persons from Africa over the last few days. I appreciate > that they took some time to have a conversation with me. I would not list > that as an accomplishment as it is not something which has visible results. But there

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about transparency

2017-06-26 Thread sm+afrinic
Hi Ish, At 12:36 AM 6/26/2017, Ish Sookun wrote: I understand that Andrew is asking about transparency and not the usefulness of the meetings beforehand. The community will be in a better position to understand the usefulness of board members presence in the meetings if there are reports about

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about transparency

2017-06-26 Thread Ali Hussein
Both are equally important. 1. Transparency for Corporate Governance :-) 2. Usefulness for Operational Efficiency or best use of always scarce organizational funds. I'm sure however that there's already a system in place to do this. If so question then is how these reports are presented to

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about transparency

2017-06-26 Thread Ish Sookun
Hi SM, On 06/26/2017 10:34 AM, sm+afri...@elandsys.com wrote: > > Afrinic is also a Regional Internet Registry (RIR). Is it useful for it > to have a presence at RIR-related conferences? If so, at what level > should the presence be? I understand that Andrew is asking about transparency and

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about transparency

2017-06-26 Thread Jackson Muthili
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 9:34 AM, wrote: > Hi Andrew, > At 10:42 PM 6/4/2017, Andrew Alston wrote: >> >> e.)When AFRINIC is funding board travel to meetings around the world – >> should board members be able to attend these conferences without ever >> supplying

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about transparency

2017-06-26 Thread sm+afrinic
Hi Andrew, At 10:42 PM 6/4/2017, Andrew Alston wrote: e.)When AFRINIC is funding board travel to meetings around the world – should board members be able to attend these conferences without ever supplying reports about what was accomplished at said meetings and what the purpose of the