[IMC-US] all volunteer

[faith swords]

did anyone take notes at these meetings? i couldn't come to the 
conference, but i'd still kinda like to know what went on.

--faith

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, nick wrote:

> I am glad we had the all-volunteer discussion at the conference.  It
> was good to hear from so many people on the topic.
>
> My concern right now is that I have been speaking of the concerns from
> the rest of the network without really having the stats to back up my
> impressions.  I think, however, that if there is consistent concern
> about IMCs having any paid staff around the world, that we should
> certainly take it into consideration.  A decision of the us-imc to be
> an all volunteer collective may or may not be important to other IMCs.
>
> What I propose to do next is to get a straw poll from IMCs in this
> hemisphere, to ask if they were aware IMCs are currently allowed to
> pay staff, if they have concerns about the existence of IMCs with paid
> staff, and if the us-imc decaring itself all-volunteer would matter to
> them, etc.  I think it is important that we get feedback from the
> global south on this, and perhaps by just focusing on this hemisphere
> first, I could get a fairly comprehensive set of feedback without
> having to translate into too many languages.  Do people support this
> attempt to get more feedback?  Would someone from NYC or UC want to
> help me to write the questions to make them more balanced since I am
> quite openly in favor of our collective and others declaring
> themselves all-volunteer?
>
> Peace
> Nick
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