[governance] URGENT - Nominations for the MAG

[shaila mistry]

Hi All
Rotation is critical to infusion of new blood and ideas and vibrancy. At the same time we want to retain our best members for continuity and stability of MAG. Finding the correct balance is always a challenge. I have seen prior lists of the demography of current members and their tenure. Perhaps we can circulate this and the current rules of rotation. This would clarify our understanding and have us better prepared prior to the nominations rolling in.
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Shaila

 
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 From: Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [governance] URGENT - Nominations for the MAG
 
In message <4F0DB808.5 at eff.org>, at 08:25:44 on Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at eff.org> writes
> I defer on process to the nomination Committee. I was only highlighting that the rules does not apply to the current composition of the MAG.

I think the problem is that the "rotation rule" has been poorly explained/understood.

On one hand we might have expected that it was a "first in-last out" rotation process, where 1/3 were changed each year. Hard luck in a startup, where in year two everyone's equal, but to get the process going you simply have to send the short straw to a third of the group.

On the other hand, if it's merely "one third rotated off each year, regardless of previous tenure" then it's inevitably going to be skewed towards newcomers leaving. As far as I can see, we have 16 members who've been there since day 1 (which is a quarter).

> On 1/11/12 7:47 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
>> In message <4F0C6941.1010905 at eff.org>, at 08:37:21 on Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at eff.org> writes
>>> I think all existed MAG members have more than 2 years. I think I was  one of the latest one in the rotation, and I already have 3 years.
>> 
>> There are only 20 MAG members as "recent" as yourself (another is Fouad).
>> 
>> Unless the plan is to keep every single one as the un-rotated third of  the MAG (in which case I would have expected them to say so) then the  un-rotated MAG will have to be a mixture of "3 year" and "older". Which has the inevitable consequence that some of the "3 year" will be rotated off.
>> 
>> I think I any stakeholder group should be looking at re-nominating their best people, irrespective of how long they've served (or indeed whether they served once and have been rotated off in earlier years).

-- Roland Perry
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