Invitation to ISOC meeting

[David Chima]

Dear all,
You are all invited to the first ever ISOC meeting to be held as follows

Venue: Blantyre, College of Medicine in the ICT Conference room
Date: 9th October 2010
Time: 09:00am

Agenda
1. Review/amend/adopt the set of by-laws which you can find at
http://isocmalawi.no-ip.org/isocmalawi/bylaws.pdf

2. Malawi Chapter registration with the Registrar General's Office.

3. Establish a work plan on the coming chapter's activities. We need to
have a clear set of goals.

3. If possible, elect a few officers responsible for the coordination of
the chapter activities.

4. AOB

Regards

David Chima

[David Chima]

Could you also bring the copy of the by-laws and the agenda with you
when coming to the meeting.

Regards

David

[Blessings]

Dear all,

The meeting will also be online.

If you wont be available for the meeting physically but will be
available online please indicate.
We are using an online software that can only allow 25 participants,
therefore we would like to send the invitation for the online version
of the meeting to only those that will not be able to make it to the
venue. The venue will have one online attendee(or two) through which
the proceedings will be be communicated.

The meeting will be recorded and those that will not be able to attend
both modes will be able to watch(view, etc) the proceedings that will
be posted for members to see at a later time.

For more information please ask through the
isocm...@googlegroups.com


Kind regards,
Blessings.

[Towela]

Dear All,

Its good to hear that the meeting is scheduled for tomorrow and that
there will be facility for on-line participation. I will unfortunately
not be able to attend online due to other commitments but I will be
interested to see/hear the recording. Regarding the agenda tomorrow, I
just wanted to make a few comments on the by-laws which I hope members
will take into consideration:

- Article II - the statement of purpose contains some elements which
I think are good ideals but may be hard to realise in practice.
Specifically I am concerned about the ones that speak to "spearheading
research" and "promoting & encouraging standards and best practice in
network deployment".
- Article III - on membership I think that we should provide for
"Associate" Membership which would be for organisations/individuals
that want to be associated with us but do not have voting rights
- Article VII - the number of standing committees should be reduced: I
think that looking at the functions of the Research committee, this
may not be practical at this point in time; I also think that
Publicity and Fund-raising can be combined and Programs, Education and
Membership can be combined.
- Article IV- regarding the fiscal year running from May to April -
what is the basis for this choice? I would move for a fiscal year that
is aligned to the calendar year (Jan-December)
- Article IX on meetings mentions the Annual Business Meeting in
February/March; I'm guessing that these dates are influenced by the
choice of fiscal year; I wonder though if we can make it more generic,
like " The Annual Business Meeting shall be held in the last quarter
of the fiscal year"

My two cents' worth. I wish you all a good meeting and look forward to
the minutes and report.

regards,

Towela

On Oct 7, 3:21 pm, David Chima <dch...@malswitch.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> You are all invited to the first ever ISOC meeting to be held as follows
>
> Venue: Blantyre, College of Medicine in the ICT Conference room
> Date:    9th October 2010
> Time:    09:00am
>
> Agenda

> 1. Review/amend/adopt the set of by-laws which you can find athttp://isocmalawi.no-ip.org/isocmalawi/bylaws.pdf

[harry chavinda]

Just by holding a meeting, it is a giant step on its own. Wishing all participants a viably fruitful meeting.


Regards,

Harry Chavinda

[Charles Fodya]

Folks, I am committed tomorrow but you have my full support. I will
benefit from the recordings. Kindest regards, Charles

--
Sent from my mobile device

[jamec...@gmail.com]

All,

I won't make it physically so consider for my presence online.

regards,

James

[Kondwani Munthali]

Will avail myself online

[Edwin Mulenga]

Available online.....

[Blessings]

The Online meeting has been scheduled and invitation emails have been
sent through the mailing list. If you havent recieved the email please
contact me through bule.msowoya<at>gmail.com.

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Hello ,

ISOC Malawi invites you to attend this online meeting.

Topic: ISOC Malawi Chapter Meeting
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010
Time: 9:00 am, South Africa Time (Pretoria, GMT+02:00)
Meeting Number: 733 619 910
Meeting Password: isocmalawi


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On Oct 8, 2:57 pm, Edwin Mulenga <edwin.mule...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Available online.....
>

> On 07/10/2010, Blessings <bule.msow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
>
> > The meeting will also be online.
>
> > If you wont be available for the meeting physically but will be
> > available online please indicate.
> > We are using an online software that can only allow 25 participants,

> > therefori we would like to send the invitation for the online version

[fka...@yahoo.com]

I hope I will be able to participate online. My home connection is not very reliable on saturdays. Tomorrow then. Cheers
Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone

[David Chima]

Dear all
We had a wonderful meeting on Saturday the 9th October 2010. There were
5 members in the meeting of course with Charles Fodya's support from
remote. The members were:
David Chima
Isabel Mangulenje
Zione Yapu
Souza Simbota and
Chisomo Kaundama

We also had three members who were online namely:
Edwin Mulenga
Hosea Phiri and
Blessings Msowoya

We had discussed several the by-laws and looked at the way we could
register the chapter with Accountant General. We also took on board the
contributions that Dr Jere sent and discussed them in detail. Our
colleagues who were online also gave wonderful input and all that was
built together into one thing. Isabel Mangulenje will send you the
minutes shortly.

We had suggested that we meet again in two weeks time = 23 October 2010
(debatable). Venue and time we didn't agree deliberately so that we
should ask members' input. This time we can discuss agenda 3 and 4 + any
other that members would bring in before then.

Regards

David Chima

On 10/07/2010 03:21 PM, David Chima wrote:

[Charles Fodya]

This is great to hear. Has just made my day. Let us have the minutes
and see what we also can complement. Kindest regards, Charles

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[David Chima]

Hello Members
Accountant General should have read Registrar General. Sorry for the error.

David

[harry chavinda]

Wonderful,

Harry