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<div>I fail to see why a discussion at a face to face meeting, where less than 15% of the membership is typically represented is less valid than a far more inclusive discussion that should be had on the members list, amongst the members who this committee will
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<div>Every member gets the emails on the members list, they CHOOSE to comment or not to comment, and leaving the discussion to a face to face meeting disenfranchises those who cannot be at such a meeting due to financial or other constraints. Hence, I would
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<div>Hence, I agree with Seun and others who have commented that this is unnecessary considering the work in progress at the moment.</div>
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<div>Stated as a personal opinion.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Badru Ntege<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>General Discussions of AFRINIC<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, 30 September 2015 at 3:59 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>General Discussions of AFRINIC, Badru Ntege<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Timeline for the AFRINIC Governance Committee<br>
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<div>On 9/29/15, 10:42 PM, "Seun Ojedeji" <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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Hello Badru,</p>
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We have discussed GC in at least 2 public meetings, I don't think there is any need to discuss it at another face2face apart from just hearing update (if any) from board. There are other issues that require attention and GC is just one of them.</p>
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<div>Lets not mix issues here. First discussion was on whether GC or not. Then there was a first draft with comments and then the work done after the comments would be discussed. In a changing environment with a large community like ours I think allowing
30 mins to an hour to have a discussion on an issue deemed to be of such importance would not be wrong.</div>
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<div>Governance would set the culture of the organisation and in any organisations culture is everything. Lets do first things first and make sure we try our best to do them right. We will probably not be perfect but lets give ourselves a chance to achieve
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<div>Regards</div>
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