[council] Board Election Process - Closure

[Dennis Jennings <Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie>]

Colleagues,

I have just caught up on the latest discussions about the Board 
election process, and my sense of the discussions is that we have 
converged to agreement on the last proposal by Elisabeth (made 
after discussions with Javier, Amadeu, Andrew and myself).

I am happy with the process proposed - I think it will probably work 
quite well.  I am particularly pleased with the idea of the first round 
poll which will give us a sense of the preferences of the Names 
Council before we start the election for the first director.  I know 
that it is not strictly necessary, but I think it will be very helpful to 
the NC in preparation for the first election.

As your (current) Chair, I would like now to close the discussion 
and publish the election process.  We will review the election 
process briefly at our teleconference tomorrow for clarity, and we 
may have further discussion on the list to make sure that the times 
of the teleconference, the proposed timescales, etc. will work 
reasonably for everyone.

My thanks to everyone for all the inputs - and especially to 
Elisabeth for her support.

I'm sure that we will have many interesting discussions about 
election processes in the future when we review the results of 
these elections.

I know that this whole discussion was rushed and conducted under 
pressure (and I have problems with this haste, as you know), and 
that some of you feel a bit excluded, especially those who had to 
miss the last teleconference.  I sincerely regret this.  However, I do 
think the result is reasonable.  

I think that appropriate procedures, timescales, etc. for the Names 
Council are of paramount importance - for the NC itself and for its 
credibility - and we will need to work on these carefully over the 
next while.  I will contribute to these discussion as best I can.

Thanks
Dennis
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Dennis M. Jennings
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