[NCSG-PC] Board member election process and timeline

[William Drake]

free for all at house level? sounds like fun, good luck

> On Feb 15, 2017, at 10:37, avri doria <avri at apc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As far as I can tell, people are tending toward the free for all first
> round with as many candidates as can be put forward and then a second

> ballot between the top 2.
> 
> I was not all that supportive of this at first, but after seeing how it
> was developing, decided i could live with it.  Let a 1000 candidates
> pull their head up above the sand and then let the two least unpopular
> (aka top vote getters) go head to head.  And if that leaves us without a
> pick because of the super majority rule and block voting, then leave the
> seat empty until we find someone we can compromise on.
> 
> avri
> 
> 
> 
> On 15-Feb-17 08:35, William Drake wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Unless my memory’s failing me, when we put Markus and Bill Graham on
>> the board we worked out SG positions internally and then went
>> external.  It seemed from the RP that folks in Iceland decided to
>> instead have constituencies come out with their own nominations
>> without coordinating first at the SG level.  Is that correct?  If so,
>> you could then have five different groups putting forward pet
>> nominees, including their own people, which could unnecessarily sow
>> discord intra-SG and would make coming to early consensus within each
>> SG a lot harder.  It would open the door to self-referential actions,
>> more complicated negotiations, and a consequent obsession with
>> defining procedural arcana. 
>> 
>> Could someone closer to the action please clarify how we are
>> proceeding and, if it’s the above model, what the plan is for
>> overcoming potential problems in order to get timely intra-SG agreement?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>>> On Feb 14, 2017, at 19:46, Tapani Tarvainen
>>> <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info <mailto:ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info> <mailto:ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info <mailto:ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear PC members,
>>> 
>>> As I hope everyone is already aware, we need to agree with CSG on the
>>> timeline and process for NCPH Board member election.
>>> 
>>> We had a session today about it here in Reykjavík without conclusion,
>>> but it really needs to be decided within a few days.
>>> 
>>> I'll attach the latest staff proposal. As things stand the only thing
>>> there almost everybody agrees should be changed is the interview time:
>>> two days is too short to ensure all candidates can be interviewed.
>>> Otherwise feeling is that it doesn't really matter much - we can do it
>>> in the time we have.
>>> 
>>> I will note that the 10 April deadline there isn't stonehard, it is
>>> possible to have an extra council meeting even on 3 May if need be to
>>> get two extra weeks, but it would obviously not be particularly
>>> desirable.
>>> 
>>> Comments welcome. While we can't decide this alone, we can decide
>>> what we can accept and then people here can work it out with CSG.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Tapani Tarvainen
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