Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread kris foster
On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Chris Malayter wrote: Kris, Could you outline the changes for those who might not have seen the original bylaws yet. http://newnog.org/docs/newnog-bylaws.pdf Should be painless to match up the lines below with the sections above. If it's not, I'm happy to

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Chris Malayter
Kris, Could you outline the changes for those who might not have seen the original bylaws yet. Two issues I have, 1) The ED has to be a member in good standing? So he has to pay to be a member to keep his job? :) 2) I'm not sure how happy I am to see student memberships gone. I like the

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Daniel Golding
I suspect the board will set some kind of a discount for students. Personally, I would support a very large discount for full time students. That being said, I'm also a bit disappointed that the specific student membership didn't survive. I think the educational mission is extremely important

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Simon Lyall
4.1 (new) Members are required to be active within the Internet network operations community by way of current employment or previous employment if retired, participation in industry forums, academic instruction or scholarship, or volunteer positions. How does this affect people who lose

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Leslie
You can have student pricing and members without needing a separate class of membership. Education is useful even for existing network engineers. Leslie On 10/27/10 12:02 PM, Daniel Golding wrote: I suspect the board will set some kind of a discount for students. Personally, I would

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Sean Figgins
On 10/27/10 1:02 PM, Daniel Golding wrote: I suspect the board will set some kind of a discount for students. Personally, I would support a very large discount for full time students. That being said, I'm also a bit disappointed that the specific student membership didn't survive. I think

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
-Original Message- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@hopcount.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:15 PM To: Sean Figgins Cc: nanog-futures@nanog.org Subject: Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft On 2010-10-27, at 15:43, Sean Figgins wrote: If someone leaves the

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread kris foster
On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: -Original Message- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@hopcount.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:15 PM To: Sean Figgins Cc: nanog-futures@nanog.org Subject: Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft On

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Brian Johnson
-Original Message- From: kris foster [mailto:kris.fos...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:50 PM To: Sean Figgins Cc: nanog-futures@nanog.org Subject: Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Sean Figgins wrote: On 10/27/10 1:02 PM, Daniel

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread kris foster
On Oct 27, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Brian Johnson wrote: -Original Message- From: kris foster [mailto:kris.fos...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:50 PM To: Sean Figgins Cc: nanog-futures@nanog.org Subject: Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft On Oct 27, 2010,

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread John Springer
Inline. On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Joe Abley wrote: On 2010-10-27, at 15:43, Sean Figgins wrote: If someone leaves the network operations community for an extended period of time, say over a year, I am not sure why they would wish to remain a member of NewNOG and pay the fee. If they did wish to

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Sean Figgins
On 10/27/10 2:57 PM, Lynda wrote: On 10/27/2010 1:14 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2010-10-27, at 15:43, Sean Figgins wrote: If someone leaves the network operations community for an extended period of time, say over a year, I am not sure why they would wish to remain a member of NewNOG and pay

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Duane Wessels
On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:39 PM, kris foster wrote: I see things like this as a fail safe, and not a requirement that the board consider each individual individually. I agree with Kris. While I wish that we could simply say that there are no formal qualifications for membership, I think the

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread kris foster
The mission *includes* education and outreach to the academic community is not the same as The mission is education and outreach to the academic community. On Oct 27, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Sean Figgins wrote: On 10/27/10 2:50 PM, kris foster wrote: The mission includes education and outreach to

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Sean Figgins
On 10/27/10 3:22 PM, John Springer wrote: So while we are discussing what paid membership should be, may we not discuss whether or not we should have paid membership at all? From my perspective, we seem to be permanently accepting an insufficiently good idea along with a lot of really good

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Daniel Golding
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Sean Figgins s...@labrats.us wrote: On 10/27/10 1:02 PM, Daniel Golding wrote: I suspect the board will set some kind of a discount for students. Personally, I would support a very large discount for full time students. That being said, I'm also a bit

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 10/27/10 1:57 PM, Lynda wrote: Okay, here's a test. If I'm willing to pay the fee, may I join? I am asking if I'd be permitted to under the current definition. I don't fancy orchids much, but I have my own Cisco router. Sure. You don't even need to use the router for anything other than

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Joe Provo
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 05:39:56PM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote: [snip] There isn't a test, investigation, or vetting. The member decides if they have an interest and understands the reason for membership. If there isn't vetting, why does the board approve membership? No other nonprofit

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Sean Figgins
On 10/27/10 6:32 PM, Joe Provo wrote: When we were discussing the fee structure in August and September, I used this argument, and nobody could offer me a convincing counter argument. My argument was... If we are offering a fellow membership for someone that has contributed a extraordinary

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Sean Figgins
On 10/27/10 6:44 PM, Joe Provo wrote: If there isn't vetting, why does the board approve membership? No other nonprofit [advocacy, professional, charity] to which I either belong or contribute has this kind of barrier to taking my money. The board does not need to vote if we don't want it.

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Sean Figgins
On 10/27/10 10:11 PM, John Springer wrote: Sorry, not to be dense, but what? I believe it is all up for discussion. Or is that code for shut up? It is already decided and voted upon. Our mission at this point is to determine what this will look like and try to reach a consensus. It is too