[NCSG-PC] Reminder PC Chair election / Vice-chairs appointments

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi all.

As there was no objection, the election is starting with nomination period.

Best,

Rafik

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 08:44 Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> there were few comments/questions about the proposed process. I didn't see
> any objection . Adjusting the timeline and the process based on comments.
> and assuming there is support for the process (edits in red):
>
> 1- Nomination period: from 24th April to 1st May
>
> Nomination and self-nomination are both permitted from and within PC
> members (NCSG councillors, NCSG Chair, representatives from NCUC and NPOC
> to PC), for one year term for PC chair position.
> The nominee should accept the nomination and send a short SOI by the 1st
> May.
>
> 2- Election : 1st May to 8th May
>
> all PC members should vote. the GNSO support staff will act as the
> election officer. The options in the ballot should be the candidates who
> confirmed by the deadline and NOTA
>
> 3- Result: should be available by 9th May
>
> the candidate who get  2/3 vote of the NCSG‑PC membership will be
> declared winner.
>
> in case of nobody get the 2/3 vote a second round should be organized with
> the candidate who get most of votes against NOTA. if the candidate doesn't
> get 2/3 of votes, a new election process should be initiated asap.
>
> 4- Vice-chairs appointments:
>
> After PC chair confirmation, a call for interest should be made to have up
> to 2 vice-chairs. The appointment of the volunteers will be confirmed if
> there is no objection within PC.
>
> 5- the term of PC chair and vice-chairs is 1 year term.
>
> if there is no objection we will start this Friday.
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
>
> Le jeu. 9 avr. 2020 à 09:11, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> following-up (with delay) on one the agreed action items which is the PC
>> chair election and vice-chairs appointment, I am proposing here a draft
>> process and timeline. it might sound formal compared to what we discussed
>> previously but I am using this a draft for building fully fledged process
>> in future:
>>
>> 1- Nomination period: from 17th to 24th April
>>
>> Nomination and self-nomination are both permitted from and within PC
>> members (NCSG councillors, NCSG Chair, representatives from NCUC and NPOC
>> to PC), for one year term for PC chair position.
>> The nominee should accept the nomination and send a short SOI by the 24th
>> April.
>>
>> 2- Election : from 27th April to 1st May
>>
>> all PC members should vote. the GNSO support staff will act as the
>> election officer. The options in the ballot should be the candidates who
>> confirmed by the deadline and NOTA
>>
>> 3- Result: should be available by 2nd May
>>
>> the candidate who get  2/3 vote of the NCSG‑PC membership will be
>> declared winner.
>>
>> 4- Vice-chairs appointments:
>>
>> After PC chair confirmation, a call for interest should be made to have
>> up to 2 vice-chairs. The appointment of the volunteers will be confirmed if
>> there is no objection within PC.
>>
>>
>> this is just draft process and should be fleshed out to documented for
>> future. I didn't outline all cases regarding the election for example.
>> After that, the next step will be to work on job description for those
>> positions.
>>
>> Please let me know your thoughts/comments on what is proposed.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rafik
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> De : Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
>> Date: lun. 2 mars 2020 à 09:35
>> Subject: NCSG Policy Committee meeting follow-up
>> To: ncsg-pc <ncsg-pc at lists.ncsg.is>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as you know we had last week our PC meeting to discuss several items
>> regarding election, improvements etc. We got already some action item to
>> follow-up
>>
>> 1- PC chair Election: there was agreement to go with the idea of having
>> chair and 2 vice-chairs. The point was also to have proper open process
>> (that can be documented for future). so the action here is  to agree on
>> timeline and process (nomination, vote). it shouldn't be complicated. I
>> believe we can get this done in this month e.g. 1 week for nomination and 1
>> week for voting.
>> 2- Having a regular PC call, hopefully monthly call and coordinating more
>> with our NCSG reps to council. The action would be to agree on regular
>> day/time. I think that can be 2 weeks after NCSG Policy.
>> 3- Regarding documentation and development of workflow, I believe that
>> can be done with reworking again on PC operating procedure and documenting
>> previous activities. I am sharing here the PC operating procedures draft
>> being worked on before
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G_M4wBGVEyXm30m79olplfF0RNkJnDwaVBBeldDfO8U/edit .
>> For anything missing, we can start first to identify that and have
>> volunteers to draft it. For Chair job description, I can use what I
>> presented and develop a draft.
>> 4- Sharing here the slides I presented in last call:
>> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SnpMYmb6lTw1FqO6tvSqCdpgL-QMg1DJXIJGrx8vB6A/edit#slide=id.p
>> 5- for NCSG Policy call improvements, we will have the NCSG Policy call
>> in coming days and I will try to make some adjustments to extent of
>> possible. It might be shorter than usual as we will have NCSG meeting next
>> week. From April NCSG Policy call, we can start identifying other topics we
>> would like to cover other than council meeting and usual policy updates.
>>
>> One activity we will need to do soon and follow-up is to work about
>> prioritization. GNSO Council will discuss the GNSO future work soon and we
>> need to be ready and align our work around that. That also aligns with the
>> discussion we had about prioritizing our work and it starts with
>> identifying what is in the pipeline.
>>
>> let me know if I missed anything.
>>
>> Best.
>>
>> Rafik
>>
>>
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