Hello Marcos and WG!
This is indeed a good way to resolve this, even though it maybe should have
been better announced before the voting took place. Anyway, better to do the
filter now than never.
I support your decision fully.
Maria
On 16 December 2023 08:56:51 CET, Marcos Sanz via opensource-wg
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Dear working group,
>Dear RIPE community,
>
>The two weeks period to express preferences for one (or more) of the
>candidates to the open co-chair position is over. First and foremost: thanks
>to everyone who actively participated in the mailing list.
>
>After the somehow unusual traffic in the list during the past two weeks,
>Martin and I decided that we would like to prioritize the voices of active
>participants in the working group or the RIPE community at large towards the
>voices of those who could not be identified as such. Trying to find hard
>criteria for this is not easy, but nevertheless we had to, so this is the
>result of our deliberations:
>
>We will not consider the vote of those who a) were not subscribed to the RIPE
>open source mailing list as of the beginning of the voting window (last 30th
>November, day of the OSS wg meeting) AND b) have not attended a single RIPE
>meeting since RIPE 80, neither in presence nor remote. A bit of rationale
>about the latter: we took RIPE 80 because it is the point in time where
>Meetecho support was mature enough for the RIPE meeting to be organized
>completely virtual (admittedly, in
>kind of involuntary manner 😉). That entails everyone wanting to join a meeting
>could have done so, even if lacking the financial means.
>
>We believe that we want votes from the active community who is involved in the
>future and was involved in the past with the Open Source WG / RIPE and are
>familiar with our past work and the candidates for the new WG chair position.
>As such, we do believe that new signups with no prior history of involvement
>in the community should not qualify to vote this time. We do believe that we
>have three excellent candidates and each of them has some great skills, but
>understanding the skills required to further improve this group is hard to be
>judged by anyone who was never part of RIPE. Please do not misunderstand this
>step as a sign of hostility towards newcomers: you are and always be welcome
>to join the community at anytime and to start participating in our open source
>arena as of now!
>
>We have presented this process and its rationale to the RIPE chair and no
>opposition was expressed for us to move ahead. Based on these criteria we’ll
>now review all expressions of support in the mailing list and plan to provide
>you with an outcome as soon as possible. If you think we are making a wrong
>decision, please speak up within the next few days.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Marcos and Martin
>Open Source WG Chairs
>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> De: opensource-wg <[email protected]> En nombre de
>> Marcos Sanz via opensource-wg
>> Enviado el: jueves, 30 de noviembre de 2023 10:27
>> Para: [email protected]
>> Asunto: [opensource-wg] Call for support of co-chair candidates
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> as explained today during the working group session, three people have
>> volunteered to fill the one open co-chair vacancy. Sorted by sha256() over
>> their full name, the candidates are
>>
>>
>>
>> -Christian Scheele
>>
>> -Luka Perkov
>>
>> -Sasha Romijn
>>
>>
>>
>> Big thanks to all of them for their offer to support the community, we are
>> happy to see such an interest! The candidates have introduced themselves
>> and their motivations also during today’s session. In case you missed it, you
>> can watch the specific recordings here:
>>
>> https://ripe87.ripe.net/archives/video/1214
>>
>> https://ripe87.ripe.net/archives/video/1217
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Now this is a public call for support of the candidates, open for TWO WEEKS
>> starting now and ENDING 14th December (EOB UTC). If you want to support
>> one (or more) candidate(s), please send a public message doing so to this
>> mailing list. Statements of support cannot be anonymous, so please finish the
>> e-mail with your name.
>>
>>
>>
>> It’s also possible (even helpful) to support more than one candidate (to be
>> able to break potential ties). If you’d wish to do so, please deliver your
>> statement of support with the candidate names sorted by preference.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now it’s your time to contribute by choosing the new co-chair: help the
>> community!
>>
>> Marcos Sanz & Martin Winter
>
--
Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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