[ripe-chair-discuss] Chair nomination process

Hallway mode:

We can always wish for an ideal process. The real question is: is it worth blowing up the current one? What happens if we do? What does it do to the *people*? The nominees? Our current chair? The NomCom volunteers? Any future volunteers? And last but not least yours truly who has worked his ... off to get that process agreed and is working likewise to see it thru?


Exhaustedly yours

Daniel

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> On 14. May 2020, at 17:23, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
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> Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote on 14/05/2020 15:22:
>> What Kurtis is pointing to is actually a change to the job
>> description, so definitely a change that might have affected
>> potential and current candidates.
> 
> there were two things: a change to the job description and separately that it may be changing from an unpaid to a paid position.
> 
> Both these things would have had an impact on who might have been interested in applying because most people cannot afford to take a half- or full-time position like this on an nnon-paid basis.  If I read this correctly, both suggestions were made after the nominations pool was closed.
> 
> This is concerning because potential candidates were implicitly excluded from applying due to changes made after the opportunity for applying was closed off.
> 
> Nick
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