GNSO Standing Selection Committee (SSC) meeting (Wednesday, 22 Jan 2025)

[Johan Helsingius]

Hi everyone,

Here is again my report as one of the NCSG reps to the SSC. The SCC
met on  Wednesday, 22 Jan 2025 to pick the (GNSO-appointed) Fellowship
Program Mentor and the Fellowship Program Selection Committee Member.

While the meeting quickly achieved consensus on the choices, the
SSC procedures prescribe a 48-hour consensus call period allowing
committee members who were not in the meeting to raise objections
(note that this has never happened so far), so I can't yet announce
the results.

The next appointment coming up for the SSC is the Latin Diacritics
PDP Working Group Chair.

What did strike me was the poor attendance at the meeting. We delayed
start by 2 minutes, as by then the only attendees were the chair and
co-chair (Karen Day (RySG) and Segunfunmi Olajide (BC)) and two
members, Natalie Howatson (RrSG) and me. Susan Mohr (ISPC) joined
us at 3 min past the hour, and then our other two NCSG reps, Frank
Anati at 5 minutes and Pedro de Perdigão at 15 minutes, with no-one
else joining, so in the end NCSG had a strong presence, with IPC and
NomCom appointees not being represented at all. I first thought this
was because the Fellowship program appointments weren't seen as
very important, but the chair commenting "we have more members
than staff present, good" made me realize this was a common situation.
I think it is a missed opportunity for the ones not represented, and
I am happy to see we had all our representatives present.

	Julf