[ripe-chair-discuss] RIPE Chair Selection Process

On 11/10/2018 15:24, Bijal Sanghani wrote:

> ... 
> 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). 
> 
> The NomCom review and select the candidate who is presented to the community to endorse or reject.
> 
> This keeps the process lightweight, open and removes the wgcc involvement, unless they want to put their name in the hat of course.
> 
> Thoughts?

Going this way bears the danger of selecting a chair who cannot work
well with a significant part of the working group chairs. The resulting
friction fill discredit our governance, consume a lot of energy better
used for constructive work and may even destabilise RIPE. This is not
the way to run a railroad.

We have to find a real bottom-up selection process that includes the
volunteers who help to make RIPE work.

And please can we get consensus the "RIPE Chair" document first.

Daniel