<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear RPD,</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I agree with Caleb's assessment. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Additionally as others have pointed out, PhD titles shouldn’t matter in this case if the candidate does not provide basic information such as nominator NIC handles and seconders who are in good standing.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">From my perspective, the candidates disqualify themselves by failing to follow the basics as required by the election process. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Why would the community trust such candidates to handle Co-chair affairs after they have proved they can’t follow basic instructions?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Regards,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Murungi Daniel</span></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 21, 2022, at 2:11 AM, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <<a href="mailto:muyiwacaleb@gmail.com" class="">muyiwacaleb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hello Sylvain,<div dir="auto" class="">Applying or getting nomination itself is a job on it's own. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">The records are there to examine if we decide to dig down. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">The matrix has made selection easy enough to do the selection by rough concensus if not by consensus which definitely favours one candidate over the others. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Having to write long statements to justify a VOLUNTEER NON PAID position when the CV itself speaks volume in addition to the matrix is a no brainer to me. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I like fairness and process. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">From a previous NomCom experience, if the nominees fail to tick certain documented criteria such as as a simple matrix, we halt the the progress of such applications going forward. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">It is vexatious, waste of time and retrogressive to put the entire community through the stress of reading every documentation of the candidates when only one candidate meets the basic matrix of selection criteria this same RPD established and agreed upon.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Besides Darwin is a previous Cochair. I'm sure that experience counts also in his favour rather than wasting time of community contributors. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">The earlier the better we get over this and get down to serious policy work. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Caleb Ogundele </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>