[governance] igc nomcom and other lists

[Vittorio Bertola]

Danny Butt ha scritto:
> Hi
> 
> I'm not worried by an IGC nomcom member's selection in the MAG  
> through another means, and wouldn't see it as discrediting the  
> process. Should the situation arise and an individual is worried, I  
> think they can step down from anything they think might be affecting  
> their reputation.

Hi,

being one of the people in the "hypothetical" situation (yes, this is a 
disclosure) and having raised the issue with Avri and discussed it 
extensively with some caucus people in the last few days... I still 
don't know what to do.

I agree with you and see no incompatibility between the two things, but 
at the same time, while chatting, some caucus people (not all!) have 
defined the idea of me being recommended elsewhere while serving on the 
IGC Nomcom as "cheating" and "not playing on the same level". And I do 
see why - I understand that the "nomcom as a civic duty" idea presumes 
that some random people will have to renounce to (to put it bluntly) 
personal ambitions to allow the process to go forward.

On the other hand, the proposal of turning down nominations by other 
groups is not particularly feasible, at least for me. It is not so easy 
to go to, say, a member of the Italian Parliament, that has been 
supporting you for the last two years and spending some energy to gather 
public support for you, and saying "I'm sorry, I have to give up at the 
last minute because of this other group of people randomly picking me 
for a nomcom" - also knowing that they would have no other credible 
nominee to put forward.

In any case, I clearly perceive in some members of the caucus to whom 
I've been talking (again, not all of them, and I wouldn't know whether 
it's many or few) the idea that if you don't volunteer for the nomcom, 
then you don't deserve in any case to be nominated for the MAG. If 
taking the "risk" (again, I wouldn't call it so, it would be a honour to 
serve in this capacity) of being selected for the nomcom is a 
prerequisite to have reasonable chances for nomination through this 
process, then this should be said clearly to all civil society 
participants, including those who don't follow this list and maybe are 
not even caring about this process yet, but will do in a couple of weeks 
when it comes to actual nominations.

I would tend to volunteer for the IGC nomcom while keeping the option to 
be nominated elsewhere, but I must say it already looks as a negative 
situation for me whatever I do. So perhaps it is the entire idea of 
"nomcom as civic duty" that doesn't work very well.
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