{"id":225,"date":"2007-05-13T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2007-05-13T18:31:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T16:31:38","slug":"isoc-is-looking-for-3-people-to-join-the-pir-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"ISOC is looking for 3 people to join the PIR Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Society (ISOC) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isoc.org\/isoc\/media\/releases\/070511.shtml\" target=_blank>seeks nominations<\/a> of highly qualified individuals to serve on the Board of Directors of the Public Interest<br \/>\nRegistry (PIR) for the period 2008-2010.  PIR was created by the Internet Society to manage the .ORG domain. The Internet Society<br \/>\nseeks to fill three open seats on the PIR board. The Board meets in person 3-4 times per year. The time commitment is approximately 14-18 full days per year plus additional phone calls and e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Skills<\/p>\n<p>The priority skills are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>    * General business acumen with either significant entrepreneurial, non-profit and\/or marketing (not sales) skills<br \/>\n    * Known as a contributor in ICANN &#8211; Understanding and engagement in the retail domain name space (e.g. a Pindar equivalent)<\/p>\n<p>Additional useful skills are:<\/p>\n<p>    * Long term strategic thinker<br \/>\n    * Financial acumen; PIR is a $40M\/yr. enterprise<br \/>\n    * Familiarity with the non-commercial enterprise world<br \/>\n    * Geographical diversity<\/p>\n<p>Please also note that without current exposure\/involvement with the highly volatile name space business arena, it will take board member 6-12 months to get up-to-speed. With two new members next year, it will be crucial to make sure at least one new member is actively engaged in the name space arena.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isoc.org\/isoc\/media\/releases\/070511.shtml\">full text of this news at the ISOC&#8217;s web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Society (ISOC) seeks nominations of highly qualified individuals to serve on the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) for the period 2008-2010. PIR was created by the Internet Society to manage the .ORG domain. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}