[rpd] AFRINIC Board Elections - 2014: Call for Nominations

[Mark Elkins]

On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 23:09 +0300, Noah Maina wrote:
> Hi Mark
> 
> Mmmmm am not convienced but I will give your response the benefit of
> the doubt imho ... otherwise one would argue that there is no point of
> new blood since old blood brings about stability given the observation
> that new blood takes a year or so to catch up...


Careful - I'm not saying that we don't need new blood... and this time
around we'll definitely get some. No previous Board Members are standing
for the non-Geo seat (seat 8).
I honestly think we need a mix of both. A generalisation could be that
new blood should provide new ideas and old blood should provide
stability.
> 
> This continent certainly have loads of competent folks I just think
> not so many are aware perhaps otherwise we would have lots of willing
> folks...

So you could be standing for Board Election next year?
Though, from a community viewpoint, don't forget our other needs, PDP
Chair - etc.

(and I honestly thank you for speaking up) 

(Old topic: mail from your gmail account to me arrived over native IPv6,
as does all e-mail between myself and AfriNIC).
> 
> In anycade the community can certainly elect whoever ... old old or
> new.!
> 
> My 1 cent ...
> 
> Noah
> 
> On 7 May 2014 21:05, "Mark Elkins" <mje at posix.co.za> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 20:05 +0300, Noah Maina wrote:
>         > Me Just curious!
>         >
>         > Aren't some of the nominated folks already or were  members
>         of the
>         > board in the recent past....the names look familiar ....
>         
>         Yes, Both Indian and Central Africa have Board members who are
>         re-standing for a second term. This makes them immediately
>         useful, no
>         learning how things work. In my observations, "new blood" can
>         take a
>         year or so to become useful.
>         
>         
>         Other RIR regions (for example, RIPE) allow multiple
>         repetitive terms.
>         This gives that community Board Stability, helps stops old
>         mistakes from
>         being repeated.
>         
>         > Should some of us assume that there is no new blood in some
>         of these
>         > regions who can be nominated or there is less awareness in
>         the
>         > community thus we keep seeing the same names over and over
>         most of the
>         > time?
>         
>         There is more new blood than old (7 out of 10 people)
>         standing.
>         Being an AFRINIC Board Member can be quite time consuming.
>         There is also
>         no "sitting" fee. Finding willing people who can bring
>         appropriate
>         Business Management and Leadership skills as well as their
>         time is not
>         as easy as one might think.
>         Lastly - the community decides who is (re-)elected, old or
>         new.
>         
>         >
>         > Noah
>         >
>         > Dear Colleagues,
>         >
>         > Consequent to the call for nominations and subsequent
>         evaluation of
>         > nominees by the Nominations Committee (NomCom), we are
>         pleased to
>         > announce the following final slate of candidates for the
>         following
>         > seats on the AFRINIC Board:
>         >
>         > Indian Ocean:
>         >
>         >     Andrinirina Joël RANDRIANASOLO
>         >     Kris Seeburn
>         >     Subramanian Moonesamy
>         >
>         >
>         > Central Africa:
>         >
>         >     Antoine Joseph Junior Tonye
>         >     Bope Domilongo Christian
>         >     NGNOULAYE Janvier
>         >
>         >
>         > NON-REGIONAL/GEOGRAPHICAL:
>         >
>         >     Andrew Kenningale Alston
>         >     Boubakar Barry
>         >     Hajanirina Ramboasalama
>         >     Ilunga Kabwika Serge
>         >
>         >
>         > Full candidate information has been published at:
>         >
>         > https://internetsummitafrica.org/en/ais14/bod-election
>         >
>         > The community (and especially members) are hereby invited to
>         view
>         > candidate details and express any objection or support about
>         the
>         > suitability of the candidates for the board position using
>         the
>         > comment section at the URL above.
>         >
>         > The public comment period will close on 26 May 2014 at
>         2000UTC.
>         >
>         > Members that will not be able to attend and/or vote
>         physically at
>         > the AGMM in Djibouti on 06 June 2014 are informed that there
>         is now
>         > an option for electronic voting, which will start on 27th
>         May 2014
>         > until 05 June 2014 and will be conducted through the
>         MyAFRINIC
>         > portal - https://my.afrinic.net
>         >
>         > More information is available at:
>         >
>         http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election?showall=1
>         >
>         > For any queries or clarification, please contact the
>         nominations
>         > committee by email at:
>         >
>         > nomcom2014 at afrinic.net
>         >
>         
>         
>         --
>         Mark J Elkins - AFRINIC 2014 Nominations Committee Chair
>         mje at posix.co.za - nomcom2014 (at) afrinic.net
>         Tel: +27.128070590  Cell: +27.826010496
>         

-- 
Mark J Elkins - AFRINIC 2014 Nominations Committee Chair
mje at posix.co.za - nomcom2014 (at) afrinic.net
Tel: +27.128070590  Cell: +27.826010496

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