[governance] Stepping down as IGC 08 Nomcom chair.

[Michael Gurstein]

The issue seems to me to be one of intent and outcome...

If there is a feeling that the intent of the NomCom was somehow in question
leading to an illegitimate outcome or that the outcome was somehow
illegitimate because of some other failing in the process then by all means
things should be "redone"...

If neither of these cases hold and it is simply a matter of fallible (and
time and resource constrained) volunteers not following a somewhat unclear
process to the letter then I would very strongly agree with Milton to
declare victory and move on... Many more, and rather more material battles
to be fought in the future, rather than wasting scarce resources on what
seems to be little more than a procedural exercise...

MG (declaring a conflict as one of 15 nominated by the NomCom...

-----Original Message-----
From: Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller at syr.edu] 
Sent: April 30, 2008 10:17 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Meryem Marzouki
Subject: RE: [governance] Stepping down as IGC 08 Nomcom chair.



I disagree. The gain is minimal, the opportunities for further trouble
large, and the amount of energy expended could better be spent on other
things. 

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies XS4All
Professor, Delft University of Technology
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meryem Marzouki [mailto:marzouki at ras.eu.org]
> 
> We have an unexpected opportunity to make our
> process more transparent and compliant with out own charter. 
> We can't afford leaving room to disputes if this is avoidable.

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