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

[Adebunmi Akinbo]

Apologies.
I was engaged.
Apologies.
- Akinbo

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 4:30 PM Pedro de Perdigão Lana <
pedrodeperdigaolana at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> In addition to the Julf report, we also suggested that Fellowship Mentors
> candidates undergo a background check (probably through a dialogue with the
> ombudsperson, but some implications regarding confidentiality had to be
> evaluated) in the process, especially regarding harassment toward
> newcomers. This couldn't be implemented right now, but it will be
> considered for the next processes. Julf also brought up the importance of
> knowing the feedback about mentors who were reapplying.
>
> PS: I also need to apologize to the community regarding this late
> attendance at the SSC meeting, which also happened in the first one - the
> chosen timeframe overlapped a bit with the ending of work meetings on both
> occasions (and we are starting the year with turbulent timeshare), so I had
> to finish another commitment before joining and lost the initial part of
> the SSC one. This does not, however, alleviate my responsibilities of
> attending on time, so I'm trying to adjust my planning to avoid it
> happening again, considering the importance of the SSC and of having all
> our representatives there if any conflict arises.
>
> Cordially,
>
> *Pedro de Perdigão Lana*
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> Em qui., 23 de jan. de 2025 às 07:20, Kossi Amessinou <
> amessinoukossi at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Dear Johan,
>> Thank you for your report:! I did well. We learn from your actions. Thank
>> you.
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>> Le jeu. 23 janv. 2025 à 10:29, Johan Helsingius <
>> 00001963cc94b85a-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> a écrit :
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
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