Hello!

> And I would like to see those split up in 2 separate discussion on the
> members-discussion list as well.

Great idea!

> 1) a discussion about what is the cost and do we want to keep the cost allocation
> as is. For instance, do we keep a 650k Euro loss a year for the RIPE meetings or
> is a change in operating / cost allocation required ?

I see that in budget for 2011 year scheduled expenditure:

RIPE meeting - 875 kEUR
Training Courses - 383 kEUR
Regional Meetings - 263 kEUR,

Summary meeting cost: 1521kEUR.

Now we have the following situation: each LIR pays defined cost for all of meetings which are being hold during whole year. But actually not every LIR-representative visits such meetings.
So there is a question: Maybe there is no need to hold such meetings and trainings while we could run a lot of Webinars. Webinars would not be such cost-based as real meetings, but could be such useful as them.

Alexey S Ivanov
General Director
LeaderTelecom Ltd

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