[governance] NOMCOM - MAG nominations

[William Drake]

Hi

On 3/24/08 5:56 AM, "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
> 
>> I think Milton and Bill suggested MAG members needed few skills.
> 
> Huh? It must have been "the other Milton." I think MAG members need lots
> of skills. I also think the worst thing you could do to an innocent and
> inexperienced CS person is to throw them into that highly politicized
> environment with no lodestone but their "individual capacity."

FWIW I went back and looked and what I said was not that any dummy fool off
the street can do the job well, but rather

> So re: Vittorio's question earlier today about whether the 1/3 shouldn't
> be annual retroactively, meaning 2/3 this time, the expectation is that
> no, it'll only be 1/3 going forward, presumably because of the
> specialized skill sets needed to select main session speakers, ascertain
> that workshop proposals are multistakeholder, etc, which require years
> of experience to develop?

In other words, if there's a rationale for the continuity said to be
essential and require limited turn over, specialized skill sets is not it,
as the tasks involved are hardly arcane.  Full stop.

Cheers,

Bill


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