[Chapter-delegates] On Board Diversity

[Veni Markovski]

John,
Since this topic becomes like an old recording, perhaps you could go an 
look into the archives, and see what folks wrote about the elections of 
the Board few years ago. Pay attention to Keith Davidson email. Keith 
was chair of the ISOC NomCom for 3 years, and during his time the NomCom 
managed to achieve gender equality, and had every continent represented 
on the ISOC Board. You were part of this discussion and even emailed 
once; check emails in your inbox with %subject "Nomcom and elections", 
from April 2020.
Hope that this will answer your concern.
As for the 2020 elections, which you keep on bringing up over and over 
again, I won't get tired of reminding you that the chapters have elected 
4 Trustees, 3 of which are not from the US. Hopefully you are asking the 
same question not only to the chapters, but to the org members and the 
IETF, and you will provide us with feedback so that we know why *they* 
did not take diversity into account.

Kind regards,
v/

On 10/8/21 14:49, John Levine via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> It appears that Tom Fredrik Blenning via Chapter-delegates<bfg at isoc.no>  said:
>> Today they read "Establish selection criteria for prospective candidates
>> for nomination.", adding a subpoint below reading something like: "The
>> selection criteria shall aim to ensure that the board is composed of
>> members who together holds the necessary skills and perspectives deemed
>> necessary to fulfill the foundations charter."
> While that wouldn't hurt, I don't see the point.
>
> I can say from experience that recent nominations committees are very
> aware of diversity issues and consider them when selecting a slate.
> If you look at the slates they have nominated in recent years, that
> should be self-evident.
>
> I do wish that someone would engage with my question about the 2020
> election, though. What is the value of presenting a slate of diverse
> candidates if the voters don't want to vote for them?
>
> R's,
> John
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