[governance] IGC All members should opine: this is important

[Lee W McKnight]

My opinion & recollection:

This is deja vu all over again. 

We went through a lot of discussion on this list on the issue of incorporating a couple years ago with the bottom line conclusion being that the cost of incorporating IGC and getting on the fund-raising treadmill outweighed benefits.

It's reasonable to ask the question again, but at moment I don't see answer being different.

Since with $ come competition for $ (or Euros or yuan, whatever).

Which in an all-volunteer org - including also many other civil society orgs with their own fund-raising needs - could be quite the distraction.  

But I could change my mind if I heard a convincing case on what benefits would be.
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From: McTim [dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:44 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Cc: Ginger Paque; ca at cafonso.ca; Jeremy Malcolm; Fouad Bajwa
Subject: Re: [governance] IGC All members should opine: this is important

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com<mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com>> wrote:



Not necessarily. The Internet Governance Caucus is already an
organization by itself. What needs to be done, if it suits the IGC, is
to formalize the Caucus as a Civil Society Organization which may be
by registering the IGC as an International non-profit organization or
a Society. But does it suit the IGC to go through these steps?


My sense is no.

What are the projects that we would accomplish with funding?

--
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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