[chapter-delegates] Did I run for the Board?

[Veni Markovski]

At 09:53 04-04-05  +0200, Jacek Gajewski wrote:
>Dear Margaret, dear Veni,
>
>If we go over the correspondence on the chapter delegates list than the 
>majority of the postings were supporting your candidature. So this 
>announcment comes to me as a shock, especially that the only reason given 
>is that there were other qualified candidates. I personally, have no 
>doubts about your extremely high qualifications, so I don't think that the 
>higher qualifications of other candidates were the only reason to ignore a 
>clear and widely known signal of Chapter's wishes.
>
>With this e-mail I kindly ask Margaret to explain the reason, why  the 
>high qualification of other candidates were valued higher then the voice 
>of majority of chapters.

Dear Jacek,
Margaret will not explain you the reason, other than what's in her e-mail. 
I don't have doubts that the two people selected by the NomCom are good 
people, and will contribute to ISOC. When I came to you with my message, 
this was only to explain you that I did run, I did my part of the work. I 
don't know how the NomCom was working, and that's proper - noone from the 
candidates should know that. What I am kind of wondering is why there were 
only two candidates selected? Why not four? Or six?
When I was running 3 years ago there were 5, some of them decided not to 
run, in favour of my friend and colleague Jean-Claude, and at the end there 
were only two, but noone limited candidates.
Also, when the whole process started, I was expecting that - as before - 
the natural way of suggesting candidates would be via chapters. It turned 
out I had not read properly the by-laws. You see - they allow anyone to 
nominate OR self-nominate anyone, even not a chapter member, to be elected 
by chapters. So far this has not been an issue, as we were working in more 
or less friendly manner. However, I regret to say, that I feel somewhat 
bewildered at this point why we didn't propose a better outline for the 
elections.

best,
veni