[ripe-list] Follow up on the Dubai AGM - RIPE WG Chair meeting vouchers

> On 18 Jan 2018, at 15:06, Erik Bais <ebais at a2b-internet.com> wrote:
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> The only ‘benefit’ of picking up the WG Chair hat … is a WG Chair lunch

That lunch is the same as the one everyone else at the RIPE meeting gets. The only difference is it takes place in another room while a discussion of WG Chair business and meeting coordination takes place.

> I asked the Executive Board during the GM, if it is possible to add a RIPE meeting voucher for the RIPE WG Chairs as compensation.

Anything's possible I suppose. However I don't support this suggestion. IMO it's a Very Good Thing that WG Chairs are unpaid volunteers. Giving them freebies from the NCC will change the dynamics: for instance the WG Chairs become (subliminally) dependent on the NCC. We might also see unsuitable people trying to become a WG Chair for the freebies rather than to serve the WG or wider RIPE community.