Hi Walu and all, The NomCom report shared with the invitation includes _some_ info. - It received 11 nominations. - one was withdrawn - 8 are remaining
that means to me that 2 were "filtered". I requested them to disclose how many nominations *for each seat* were received. When this gets answered we will see for which seats there was filtering. I agree we shouldn't have this black box. I agree NomCom should explain why nominees were "kicked out". I believe the members voting should be provided with the information that is now used to reject nominees and then be allowed to make their own choice. Regards, Frank On 05/06/2019 09:34, John Walu wrote: > I believe the deeper question is WHY is there an increasingly smaller > candidate slate of those volunteering to serve on Afrinic board, year in > year out. > > Two possible answers: > A) Good candidates are avoiding the perceived 'challenging' board > /management /community relationships that continue to persist. So nomcom > hands are tied and cannot manufacture candidates. > > OR > B) There are actually many good candidates applying BUT the Nomcom > 'Black-box' processes is kicking them out and reducing them to 1 or 2 > nominees. > > To drill down to the correct answer, I think the Nomcom process needs to > be reformed. > > I still do not understand the benefit of having a black box process in > the nomination committee where the community has no clue about how many > candidates applied, how many got knocked out and why. IF national > Presidential election systems are so open about this, why is that it has > to remain hidden for Afrinic? > > And I say this as someone who has once served on Nomcomm as well as > someone who has once been rejected by some previous Nomcomm (I want to > believe it is within my right to share personal information/experience > as this is not covered under NDA, but I stand to be corrected ;-) > > At a minimum, we should request that as Nomcom publishes the candidate > slate, they should also show a tally (without the names) of how many > candidates applied, how many got kicked out, why they were kicked out > and how many successfully went thro. > > I believe this information can shed some light on the deeper question > above of whether indeed we have fewer applicants or our black-box > nommcom process is simply kicking them out in order to eventually > present a single candidate. > > walu. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:47 PM Noah <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, 15:15 Sander Steffann, <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Noah, > > > Read the bylaws especially section 13.8 > > When there is no candidate then the current director will be > re-appointed. > > > You missed the word "eligible" candidate! > > Nomcom has since slated eligible candidate and candidates with > different slates having one or more candidate and candidates nominated. > > Appointed != Elected. > > > There are upcoming elections scheduled where we members will be > casting votes for various candidates. > > > > >> No election -> no Directors > > > > Board can appoint. > > True. My statement was exaggerated. My apologies. > > An appointed board does not have a mandate from the members > though, and for a bottom-up community ending up with more > appointed than elected board members would not be good. > > > We have elections coming up soon and we intend to elect otherwise > the board would have to appoint or reappoint as its within its powers. > > > > Cheers, > Sander > > > Noah > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
