[IMC-US] all volunteer

[Aaron Couch]

hi Nick,  when at the conference did an all-volunteer discussion take
place, and are there any notes or minutes from this discussion?  btw
it was great meeting everyone, i'm glad to be able to identify people
in this virtual discussion. i'd like to thank the organizers again if
they are listening. -Aaron


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:26 -0600, nick <sarsnic at gmail.com> 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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