Looking over the (internal) ALAC emails, it seems that the deadline for RALOS to submit names was the 30th of Aug, with ALAC finalizing the names on the 15th. In fact, we have more time (see email below) However, not sure the deadlines have been met - at all. Regional secretariats have only just started to post their recommendations, and our board liaison election - was also to have been concluded well in advance of the nomcom deadline. Might I propose the following for our next call.. 1. Board Liaison poll be available . Not sure why a poll has to be run to make the result of a poll known. The consensus seems to be to make the result available... 2. Transparency in Nomcom selection process. Deciding a list of 5 names on a call, i think isn't the most appropriate way to decide. We need to be more open about it.. Thus, I would like to have the candidate information available ahead of any conference call. In fact, i'd rather we move the discussion to the nomcom selection process off the call - and do so on ALAC's closed list. In the meantime, the recommendations and/or suggestions posted by RALOs and/or regional secretariats should be on the ALAC wiki (after all, that's what it is for) 3. I'd like to support Veronica's offer to plan a one day team building and strategy session for ALAC for the LA meeting. Given we seem to be organizationally challenged and have little strategic vision - we need to do something about it. Said strategy session should have a session - without staff - so that we can openly discuss strategy and planning in private. I think a private strategy session would be most welcome, and quite useful. that's it for now. Suffering from a terrible bout of pneumonia. regards Robert Begin forwarded message:
From: George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky@gmail.com> Date: September 8, 2007 1:48:58 PM EDT To: Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.ca> Cc: "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam@jacquelinemorris.com>, Beau Brendler <Brenbe@consumer.org>, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: Nomcom - Status & Question about candidates..
Robert,
There is no formal deadline, but I am setting up the new NomCom for the new chair, and I'd very much like to have the names by September 30th.
Please be absolutely sure that everyone you choose can attend the first NomCom meeting during November 2-4 in Los Angeles, as well as at least some of the ICANN week meetings prior to that.
Regards,
George