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Executive Director's Report to Council 07/07/00

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ISOCNZ Executive Director

Report to Council July 7 2000

1. AGM 2000

New Members

  • As at May 15 we had 183 members
  • Our current membership total is 351 (and dropping - see below)
  • In the period June 9 - June 23 180 new members joined. The date June 9 is chosen as this was the date of the arrival of the first big cheque from one company (35 members)
  • In the week June 19-23 107 new members joined
  • Of the 180 new members, 133 assigned proxies
  • Seven prior members who had been voided for being more that six months non-financial rejoined

The process for new members is:

  1. Add to membership database
  2. Process money
  3. Subscribe to isocnz-members, and isocnz-announce
  4. Send welcome message, giving passwords to members area, and noting that they are welcome to unsubscribe from the members list if it doesn't meet their needs, and pointing out that they need to stay on announce in order to be contactable (noting it is very low volume)

Almost immediately new members started unsubscribing from both lists. I was concerned about the validity of some of the subscriptions and did some research. As a result, I raised the issue of how the staff was to determine if the subscriptions were for "real" people (the 'bulk' ones especially) and was instructed to inform all unsubscribers from announce that a requirement of membership was remaining on that list, and that an unsubscription would be treated as a resignation. As a result, the first six unsubscribers (all from the same bulk subscription) resubscribed to announce. Since the AGM there has been a regular series of un-subscriptions from both members and announce, and the Executive Assistant has followed up all the announce ones as before. She has begun voiding memberships as a result at my direction.

Current situation (as of 1600 on July 6 2000):

  • 17 Un-subscriptions from Announce
  • 7 re-subs
  • 9 resigned/made void, of which:
  • 7 are from the original 'bulk' subscription by one company
  • 1 of which is a non-functioning email address with no other contact details than phone, phone messages not returned.
  • 1 has no email address
  • 1 has illegible email address - not responding to phone messages

Proxies

  • 179 proxies were held

Online Participation

The online participation worked well. This involved an audio cast, secure web-based voting and nominations, email, and IRC. I will cover this more fully in the Methods of Electronic Participation Working Group report which I am delivering on behalf of the former convenor.

  • 2 registered voters were online
  • 2 registered

2. SUMMIT

The online participation worked well. This involved an audio cast, and email. I will cover this more fully in the Methods of Electronic Participation Working Group report which I am delivering on behalf of the former convenor.

The draft position paper went out on Tuesday, and some feedback has been received, only one comment requesting changes.

3. BUDGET

In light of the major proposed changes to Domainz I have prepared a Budget based upon a very limited income stream, namely the $10,000 per month Management fee, and spending the money we have in our account (attached). This assumes an income of only $147,000 (assuming we get the targeted Corporate membershipnumbers). The crux of the matter is that the Council will be able to do very little if this is the income. I note that there is no flexibility in the staff wages as they have year long contracts. On the other hand, the Executive Director's contract comes up for renewal on August 12 2000.

4. ICANN

In the light of the probable budget constraints, and also given that I do not believe that we are getting value for money in relation to the APTLD, I have changed my travel plans and cut short my trip to return after the ICANN meeting. This results in a cost saving of $2230 for accommodation, and I will be back in the office on the 19 th .

The Chair and I have discussed this also, and he will stay for the first APTLD meeting on the 18 th and then return, at a cost saving of $1338.

As it turns out we now get cheaper fares, and this saves another $500. This reduces the overseas travel expenditure for the one trip in the minimum budget to around $6000.

5. COMMUNICATIONS

The Communications Consultants have expressed concern about the plethora of statements coming from a variety of sources in relation to ISOCNZ. I attach a copy of their letter.

6. THINKQUEST

A report from the National CO-ordinator is attached - discussion required.

7. INTERNET INDUSTRY DISPUTE MEDIATION

In Committee Report

8. ISOCNZ/UNIFORUM JOINT CONFERENCE

Comments to come

I have run out of time and will address the last three issues at the meeting.

Sue Leader
Executive Director

© 2000 The Internet Society of New Zealand
Last updated 6 July 2000

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