[governance] Reconstituting MAG

[Parminder]

Milton

 

Ok, we will remove the sentence where we say 40 is a good number.

 

> I also support those who warned you against getting involved in specific
numbers games and proportional quotas. It is enough to say that CS is
underrepresented.  

 

Are you sure we don't ask for clear numbers knowing that, as Carlos and
others have suggested, it isn't going to be less than 40, and almost
certainly continue to be 40. If we just say Internet orgs should be reduced
to an appropriate number and CS representation increased to an appropriate
number I am not sure it will to be taken to mean anything. Clear numbers
however stick in people's minds, as a clearly stated demand, whatever they
may or may not do about it.

 

 Parminder 

 

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From: Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller at syr.edu] 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:47 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: RE: [governance] Reconstituting MAG

 

I do support calling for reduction in the number. I do not recall any real
"opposition" to it, just people who think that it won't happen. We certainly
cannot claim that there is consensus on the number 40, since the
preponderance of opinion as far as I can see is against that large a number.


 

I also support those who warned you against getting involved in specific
numbers games and proportional quotas. It is enough to say that CS is
underrepresented.  

 

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From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net] 

Milton, Meryem, McKnight and others who have reservation on the number 40 -
do you want the sentence 'We think that 40 is a good number for MAG members'
struck off. I  am unable to specifically call for reducing the number since
there seems to be considerable opposition to this.

 

Some members seemed in favor of putting some mathematics in the statement to
make a clear case for increased number for CS.  For this reason I do have to
go by the present number 40, in this part of the statement. Meryem, you
wanted me not to quote the number that can be reserved for the International
Internet orgs reps - but I have gone by the number 6 which a few of us
quoted, because that allows me to complete the calculations for the asked
for CS numbers. In any case this number is clearly against a total of 40, so
there can be no confusion about how this number may be interpreted.

 

 

 

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