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<div>"and how their money should be spent"<br>
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The email below is from 14th of April 2020 (bold part by me):</div>
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<i>Dear Elad,</i>
<div><i>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.
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<div><i>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.
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<div><i>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 <b>a couple of weeks</b> to set up a proper format that also meets GDPR requirements.
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<div><i>Happy to answer any more questions in the meantime,</i></div>
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<div><i>Gwen van Berne </i></div>
<div><i>CFO RIPE NCC</i></div>
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<div style="font-size:12pt">Anyone saw the purchase history calendar in the GM on May, or anywhere ? ...<br>
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<div>Maybe RIPE NCC representative can please step in ?<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> members-discuss <members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Gert Doering <gert@space.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 7, 2020 5:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Harry Cross <me@harrycross.me><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Members Discuss <members-discuss@ripe.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [members-discuss] External thoughts on the Executive Board Election TF</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi,<br>
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On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 12:35:20PM +0000, Harry Cross wrote:<br>
> The NCC made a lot of noise at RIPE81 about trying to attract new members<br>
> and new "blood" into the NCC and community. Locked doors and locked away<br>
> decisions and suggestion making won't help with this - but this is just an<br>
> opinion.<br>
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You are squarely mixing "RIPE community" and "RIPE NCC".<br>
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The RIPE NCC is a formal organization which has an executive board, <br>
flowing money, and paying members. And members *vote* on what the EB<br>
should do, and how their money should be spent. And yes, this excludes<br>
all non-members from the final decision.<br>
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The RIPE *community* is "all of us", and this is the primary focus of<br>
the RIPE meeting (of which the RIPE *member* AGM on wednesday evening is <br>
not a part, it just happens to happen in the same week to reduce <br>
travelling).<br>
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RIPE is open, and the RIPE WGs solicit "fresh blood" to bring new<br>
impulses to the community.<br>
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The RIPE NCC is not open in the sense of "anyone can come and influence<br>
RIPE NCC business".<br>
<br>
Gert Doering<br>
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