On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 07:41, Javier Rua <javrua@gmail.com> wrote:
Great discussion.
@Evan do you think that “that the NomCom really over-vets its candidates” is a bad thing?
Under the current circumstance, where the person they pick goes directly to fill the position, that is indeed necessary. But if the NomCom were actually only choosing candidates for an election slate, it should be flexible enough to allow for some diversity of approaches and experience. It would not need to be as strict. Rather than choosing three people for (say) the Board it would create a slate of nine or ten candidates from which the voters would pick the three. In this case the main role for the NomCom is more to eliminate the non-serious (and bias towards skills needs) than to pick the best people. That is the job of the electorate. - Evan