[Community-Discuss] Reform Nomcomm - was Announcement for Final Candidate Slate for Open Seat on AFRINIC Governance Committee

[Frank Habicht]

Hi Walu and all,

The NomCom report shared with the invitation includes _some_ info.
- It received 11 nominations.
- one was withdrawn
- 8 are remaining

that means to me that 2 were "filtered".

I requested them to disclose how many nominations *for each seat* were
received.
When this gets answered we will see for which seats there was filtering.

I agree we shouldn't have this black box.
I agree NomCom should explain why nominees were "kicked out".
I believe the members voting should be provided with the information
that is now used to reject nominees and then be allowed to make their
own choice.

Regards,
Frank


On 05/06/2019 09:34, John Walu wrote:
> I believe the deeper question is WHY is there an increasingly smaller
> candidate slate of those volunteering to serve on Afrinic board, year in
> year out.
> 
> Two possible answers:
> A) Good candidates are avoiding the perceived 'challenging' board
> /management /community relationships that continue to persist. So nomcom
> hands are tied and cannot manufacture candidates.
> 
> OR
> B) There are actually many good candidates applying  BUT the Nomcom
> 'Black-box' processes is kicking them out and reducing them to 1 or 2
> nominees.
> 
> To drill down to the correct answer, I think the Nomcom process needs to
> be reformed. 
> 
> I still do not understand the benefit of having a black box process in
> the nomination committee where the community has no clue about how many
> candidates applied, how many got knocked out and why. IF national
> Presidential election systems are so open about this, why is that it has
> to remain hidden for Afrinic?
> 
> And I say this as someone who has once served on Nomcomm as well as
> someone who has once been rejected by some previous Nomcomm (I want to
> believe it is within my right to share personal information/experience
> as this is not covered under NDA, but I stand to be corrected ;-)
> 
> At a minimum, we should request that as Nomcom publishes the candidate
> slate, they should also show a tally (without the names) of how many
> candidates applied, how many got kicked out, why they were kicked out
> and how many successfully went thro. 
> 
> I believe this information can shed some light on the deeper question
> above of whether indeed we have fewer applicants or our black-box
> nommcom process is simply kicking them out in order to eventually
> present a single candidate.
> 
> walu.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:47 PM Noah <noah at neo.co.tz
> <mailto:noah at neo.co.tz>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, 15:15 Sander Steffann, <sander at steffann.nl
>     <mailto:sander at steffann.nl>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi Noah,
> 
>         > Read the bylaws especially section 13.8
> 
>         When there is no candidate then the current director will be
>         re-appointed.
> 
> 
>     You missed the word "eligible" candidate! 
> 
>     Nomcom has since slated eligible candidate and candidates with
>     different slates having one or more candidate and candidates nominated.
> 
>         Appointed != Elected.
> 
> 
>     There are upcoming elections scheduled where we members will be
>     casting votes for various candidates.
> 
> 
> 
>         >> No election -> no Directors
>         >
>         > Board can appoint.
> 
>         True. My statement was exaggerated. My apologies.
> 
>         An appointed board does not have a mandate from the members
>         though, and for a bottom-up community ending up with more
>         appointed than elected board members would not be good.
> 
> 
>     We have elections coming up soon and we intend to elect otherwise
>     the board would have to appoint or reappoint as its within its powers.
> 
> 
> 
>         Cheers,
>         Sander
> 
> 
>     Noah
> 
> 
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