[rpd] Co-Chair Election Process

[Murungi Daniel]

Dear Owen,

Definitely, +1.


Regards,
Murungi Daniel



> On Jul 16, 2020, at 8:38 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

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>> On Jul 16, 2020, at 09:44 , Murungi Daniel <dmurungi at wia.co.tz> wrote:

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>> Dear Owen,

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>> It was a suggestion (not a demand) which, I iterate,  does not have to be adopted. 

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>> Kindly suggests a means of ensuring that I, for example, do not go on twitter or to my ‘long’ list of friends and tell them to vote for candidate X or tell them to “+1” a reply on a certain topic. Yet they have no clue what is at stake. This practice is evident on the lists.

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> As you may note, I proposed that we require list membership as of a date certain (e.g. the original start date of AIS in June, 2020) and one list email is entitled to one meeting attendee.

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> If meeting attendees then vote by virtual show of hands as enabled by the meeting software, that should pretty well preclude what you are concerned about, would it not?

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> Owen

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>> Regards,

>> Murungi Daniel

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>>> On Jul 16, 2020, at 7:28 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

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>>>> On Jul 16, 2020, at 06:10 , Murungi Daniel <dmurungi at wia.co.tz> wrote:

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>>>> Dear all,

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>>>> Am of the view that we should proceed with the election. The current environment (inability to vote in person or via show of hands) provides us with an opportunity to come up with alternative mechanisms which can be tested and modified accordingly. 

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>>>> If we are faced with another scenario such as this in the future, we won’t have to go back to the drawing board.

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>>>> Regarding the “sleeper cells” effect (aptly named by Sami :) ), the suggestion of a minimum number of posts should suffice. We should also follow up on the suggestion of always using email IDs associated with the member's organization as mentioned in previous posts (we could discuss this plus other alternatives on a separate thread).

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>>> Every regions PDP is open to any interested participant, not merely resource holders or members.

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>>> As such, I’m not sure how demanding the use of email IDs associated with a member’s organization could possibly be valid.

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>>> Owen

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