[ripe-chair-discuss] RIPE Chair Selection Process

At the risk of yet another “me too”...

>> The NomCom is selected randomly by whatever ‘name in the hat’ process, however to volunteer to be on the NomCom you must have been active in the RIPE community over the last x years by either attending y RIPE meetings or being active on a RIPE mailing list (or some defined criteria). 
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>> The NomCom review and select the candidate who is presented to the community to endorse or reject.

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> Your proposal means that we can avoid simply expanding the job description of people already appointed to other positions. It distributes the responsibilities throughout the community which is generally a healthy thing IMO, and it is also in line with the spirit of inclusiveness, whilst also keeping the process lightweight. 

When a NomCom was suggested, I just assumed a method similar to this would be used for their selection, but that was naive on my part, and it needs to be spelled out in this way.  Thank you for doing that.

I did wonder whether if there was a need for yet another committee, but I don’t think this sits well with any existing body, so a NomCom with approval by the plenary/community sounds right to me.

Cheers,
Rob

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