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

Hi Jim, 

On 18/01/2018, 16:27, "Jim Reid" <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
> 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.
    
You just broke the complete myth about the greatness of the secret WG Chair lunch … 

>   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.

I don’t see why people would volunteer, just to get a “free” lunch … The number of tasks and duties that the RIPE WG Chairs needs to do are not even close to comparison on the hours they need to do …  

In the end we are all paying for this meeting/conference … If we look at just the number of Chairs (and co-Chairs) … we would talk about :  about 23 chairs .. not including the actual RIPE Chair itself.  
and the other mentioned group of voluntairs that Lesley mentioned .. the PC .. we talk about another 12 people.  

The total “fee” if we take this together .. is 12.600 euro … on a meeting budget of about 400.000 Euro pe meeting (roughly ) …  
That is not even a single euro per LIR member … 

And if we actually value the work (and I think we do.. ) I think that we should allow for some form of appreciation for their work and effort.  

Regards,
Erik Bais