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

[Adebunmi Akinbo]

Kindly ignore 😊.
Another apology, please.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 7:41 PM Adebunmi Akinbo <adebunmi.akinbo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>> PhD Candidate (UFPR), LLM in Business Law (UCoimbra)
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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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