[PC-NCSG] Time to elect a new chair and alternate chair(s)

[Amr Elsadr]

Hi Avri,

I still believe there is some merit in the idea of having two alternates - one from each constituency (regardless of who the chair is). This will hopefully help with fast-tracking responses to policy statements amongst other duties.

I would suggest voting for the chair, and a rough consensus for alternates if this model is agreeable to others on the PC.

BTW?, there is nothing in the NCSG charter that prevents us from having more than one alternate or vice chair.

Thanks.

Amr

On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:38 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Ok we are now at our full compliment.
> 
> We need to (s)elect a new chair.
> And we need to (s)elect new alternate chair(s)
> 
> I suggest we get started.
> 
> How about,
> nominations until next Monday.
> 
> 
> Then a simple doodle poll of those who agree to be candidates, where the person who gets most is chair, and anyone else who gets a vote becomes an alternate chair.  We get one vote each.
> 
> There really is a lot of work to do so a few alternates who have signed up to be doers for a year, would not be bad thing.
> 
> The doodle poll can be run by one of the observers, like a past EC or PC chair or a past council member.  I recommend that it be done as a blind poll while in progress so we don't see anything but our own vote, with only the totals revealed (not who voted for whom) at the end.
> 
> It is just about as simple as I can think of and prevents the collegial deadly embrace we saw when both Maria and Rudi, politely deferred to each other for the chair role.  Having served as alternate chair for the last bit, I believe there is little difference between a chair and an alternate,  except that the chair is the one who is the address for any urgent issue and is the point of contact for other committees etc.  Also I believe it is important for the actual chair to take primary responsibility for making sure everything gets done.
> 
> If people agree, I suggest that we start with nominations, including selfies.
> 
> If people disagree, lets discuss how we want to do this.
> 
> avri
> 
> 
> I have BCC'ed this to the EC-NCSG list and Rafik, as the EC is process oversight for PC-NCSG.  They don't need to react unless they think something is amiss in the process.  Having recently re-read the charter, I decided this is something we should do in this sort of case.
> 
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