[ripe-list] More News from the NomCom

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The RIPE 2020 NomCom will select two persons for the roles of RIPE Chair 
and RIPE Vice Chair. We have four nominees who are well known to the 
community:

Filiz Yilmaz, Niall O'Reilly, Nigel Titley and Mirjam Kühne.

We have held our second meeting and  worked out the plans for collecting 
input from the community. Here is a quick outlook about what the NomCom 
will do between now and the RIPE meeting, during the meeting and after.

Before RIPE 80

During the coming two weeks the NomCom will have conversations with the 
nominees and prepare for the RIPE meeting. We want to hear input from 
the community at between now and the end of the RIPE meeting. This is 
your chance to influence our selection. The best way to reach the whole 
committee is by e-mail. If you prefer you can also contact individual 
members of the NomCom. Of course we will treat all input confidentially. 
To that end we have even set up a dedicated server, so that we can erase 
the electronic traces of our work as well as possible once we are done.

During RIPE 80

We will participate in the RIPE 80 meeting and give a short report 
during the community plenary session on Thursday afternoon. On the 
Friday of the meeting week the NomCom will hold virtual 'office hours' 
for those who prefer to give input in a meeting and those for whom 
writing us is simply not enough. Individual meeting slots will be 
allocated first-come first served. Contact support at ripe-nomcom.org 
for an appointment.

After RIPE 80

Hans Petter Holen has announced that he will resign at the end of April 
before he takes up his new role as RIPE NCC Managing Director. Waiting 
until RIPE 81 to transition to the newly selected Chairs, as planned, no 
longer makes much sense now.  Therefore making the selection has become 
somewhat more urgent. We are committed
to work more quickly than planned but not to become too hasty either. 
Together with the RIPE NCC Executive Board we aim for selection in early 
June and confirmation by the board soon after.

We will regularly report on our progress on this mailing list and the 
NomCom blog.


Daniel Karrenberg
Chair
RIPE 2020 NomCom