[members-discuss] budget 2012

At 00:53 11/10/2011 +0200, Christian Kaufmann wrote:
>...as Nigel and Fahad said, the board is very well paying attention to the 
>list and what the members want.
>And for the ones who don't want to send an email to the list, feel free to 
>send a direct email to us or even better feel free to talk to us in person 
>at the next RIPE meeting.:-)

Well I tried.  I started with the draft agenda:
http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/draft-agenda

Example extract:

>6. Draft RIPE NCC Budget 2012
>
>The RIPE NCC Executive Board welcomes any input about the Draft RIPE NCC 
>Budget 2012 prior to and during the General Meeting November 2011.

I was glad to see that the EB welcomes input, but it didn't say "how" to 
provide that input.  So I Googled and found the EB page at:
http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board
I didn't find any indidivual emails listed there but did see that it lists 
the way to contact the EB is via email to Sabine at sam at ripe.net.

So I did just that 5 days and sent the following email:

>Dear RIPE NCC Executive,
>
>Why is the budget not being voted upon?  Where can an open discussion be 
>carried to discuss why a 9% budget increase is needed, when everyone is 
>cutting their budgets 10%?
>
>Regards,
>Hank Nussbacher
>il.iucc

I still await a response.  Perhaps the EB needs to examine itself as to why 
contacting the 5 members is made so difficult.

Regards,
Hank


>Best regards,
>
>ck
>
>
>
>
>On Oct 11, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Nigel Titley wrote:
>
> > On 10/10/2011 22:50, Fahad AlShirawi wrote:
> >> And on my side I am happy to monitor the members' discussion and see 
> what it is the members want and then to bring it up internally. Rest 
> assured Hank that we will consider all concerns where applicable and as 
> much as possible within the constraints we have.
> > Yes, thanks for making this clear, Fahad.
> >
> > As far as I am aware, all members of the board read this list and take
> > notice of what the members want. Our sometimes difficult job is to try
> > and sort out what the membership as a whole wants, rather than just the
> > dozen or so active contributors to the list.
> >
> > Always feel free to send any of us a direct personal question or
> > comment, especially if there is a period of quiet. As I've mentioned
> > before, we all have day jobs which sometimes intrude on our board work.
> >
> > Nigel
> >
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