[governance] NomCom nomination statments - To publish or not toPublish

[Ian Peter]

The arguments for (2) are pretty strong for me - and from memory the wgig
process was a rushed one. but happy to go with a strong feeling either way.

Ian Peter


 

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> [mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
> Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 3:08 PM
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> Subject: [governance] NomCom nomination statments - To 
> publish or not toPublish
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Looking for a sense of the caucus on this issue.
> 
> to explain:  In putting this nomcom thing together one hole i 
> left in the procedural definition was whether the nominations 
> statement that were sent in to the nomcom should be published on not.
> 
> The two alternatives are pretty obvious:
> 
> (1) do as we did in the WGIG process, and publish them on a website
>          (ref. http://www.net-gov.org/wgig/nominees.php)
> 
> (2) do as other nomcoms do and keep them private to the nomcom
> 
> I thought option (1) was obvious as we have based this 
> process on what was done in WGIG with the exception that we 
> added a method for selecting members of nomcom.
> 
> But since I had neglected to mention that the nomination 
> statements would be published, I felt I had to confirm with 
> each of the few (very few incidentally) nominations that had 
> come in on whether they were willing for their nominations to 
> be published on the web site being set up for this purpose.  
> In this dialogue the question was posed.  This caused me to 
> start consulting both with the members of the nomcom and with 
> some members of the caucus and I have gotten a mixed message.
> 
> 
> Some of the reasons I am hearing (very much in my own words):
> 
> - transparency (1)
> - might limit nominations due to fear of loss of face (2)
> - allows nomcom to reject a famous person who would seem 
> unrejectable if her name was published (2)
> - subjects people's nomination statements to a giggle test (1)
> - might be easier for people from  one culture to do then 
> those from another (2)
> - demonstrates the thick skin necessary for someone in such a role (1)
> 
> I am about to send out another reminder for the nomination process.   
> In this I will ask the nominees to indicate if they are 
> willing to have their statement published on a web site.  But 
> I will wait to do so until i have seen which way he consensus 
> in this groups tends.
> 
> thanks
> 
> a.
> 
> 
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