[members-discuss] External thoughts on the Executive Board Election TF

"and how their money should be spent"


The email below is from 14th of April 2020 (bold part by me):

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Dear Elad,
Thanks so much for your interest in RIPE NCC’s transactions. The Finance department sees it as one of its primary roles to give the membership full insight in the financial obligations of our association.

Further to your questions to the Executive Board (Christian Kaufmann) please be informed that the Finance department plans to create a Purchase History Calendar with Purchases above 100k and a Capital Investment overview with investments above 25k.

These overviews will be presented to the membership during the GM in May and I am confident that this will provide you with the information you are looking for. We will start with the 2019 details and we will make a comparison with 2018. Please allow us a couple of weeks to set up a proper format that also meets GDPR requirements.

Happy to answer any more questions in the meantime,
Kind rgs,

Gwen van Berne
CFO RIPE NCC
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Anyone saw the purchase history calendar in the GM on May, or anywhere ? ...

Maybe RIPE NCC representative can please step in ?

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From: members-discuss <members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net> on behalf of Gert Doering <gert at space.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2020 5:52 PM
To: Harry Cross <me at harrycross.me>
Cc: Members Discuss <members-discuss at ripe.net>
Subject: Re: [members-discuss] External thoughts on the Executive Board Election TF

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 12:35:20PM +0000, Harry Cross wrote:
> The NCC made a lot of noise at RIPE81 about trying to attract new members
> and new "blood" into the NCC and community. Locked doors and locked away
> decisions and suggestion making won't help with this - but this is just an
> opinion.

You are squarely mixing "RIPE community" and "RIPE NCC".

The RIPE NCC is a formal organization which has an executive board,
flowing money, and paying members.  And members *vote* on what the EB
should do, and how their money should be spent.  And yes, this excludes
all non-members from the final decision.

The RIPE *community* is "all of us", and this is the primary focus of
the RIPE meeting (of which the RIPE *member* AGM on wednesday evening is
not a part, it just happens to happen in the same week to reduce
travelling).

RIPE is open, and the RIPE WGs solicit "fresh blood" to bring new
impulses to the community.

The RIPE NCC is not open in the sense of "anyone can come and influence
RIPE NCC business".

Gert Doering
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