What organizations have had the same low turn-out for AGMs and interest in the agendas of the AGMs? Even if you could not attend the AGM, did you bring up the issues on the mailinglists? Remember that RIPE NCC is not there by it self. It is there for the reasons, and in the way we have choose to have it. It has changed the ways we have voted (or abstained from voted) it to change. We might not like the outcome, but the better that we are now discussing this and that we had the KPMG survey to act as a starting point to move on.
And why is personal attendence at an AGM required to propose and vote on ongoing use of members funds ?
Personal attendance is a problem and is one of the issues that came out of the survey. From what I understand easier proxy voting is being worked on as well as on-line voting. Someone from RIPE NCC board or the RIPE NCC can probably give you more details. Are you also saying that having to have the AGM vote is a problem? In that case how would you else want to do it? Voting anytime through out the year if enough people called for a vote? That would make it more or less impossible to make or follow a budget in any reasonable way.
I am amazed that no one has proposed any sort of online system.
For voting? Have you read the lir-wg list from this spring and the results of the KPMG survey as well as the presentations made by Axel of suggested improvements? Did you bring this up when you became a RIPE NCC member? I personally think we should have gone for on-line voting earlier and that holding the AGM with the RIPE meetings would have been better. But I haven't blamed the men in black for this, as I have never proposed something else myself.
Or would that remove too much power from the professional bureaucrats that live off RIPE ?
Have anyone opposed this? Or are you just assuming that the world is a conspiracy against you? RIPE and the RIPE NCC is only as good as what you help it make with suggestions and constructive comments. - kurtis -