[diversity] Fwd: [ripe-list] RIPE Chairs Selected

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First time in history of RIPE: a woman is a Chair Person!

Congrats, Mirjam!!

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Subject: [ripe-list] RIPE Chairs Selected
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 12:54:37 +0200
From: Daniel Karrenberg via ripe-list <ripe-list at ripe.net>
Reply-To: Daniel Karrenberg <chair at ripe-nomcom.org>
To: RIPE List <ripe-list at ripe.net>

Dear colleagues,

The RIPE 2020 NomCom has selected Mirjam Kühne as RIPE Chair and Niall
O'Reilly as RIPE Vice Chair. After interviewing all nominees, hearing
substantial input from the community and a thorough discussion during
three selection meetings all voting members voted to select Mirjam as
Chair and eight out of ten voting members voted to select Niall as Vice
Chair. The selection was subsequently supported unanimously by all
members of the committee. We closely followed the process spelled out in
ripe-727 and ripe-728. We regularly paused to confirm that the whole
committee was comfortable with the process and its progress.

We were able to choose from a set of nominees who are all very capable
and well respected in the community. We expect that the community would
support any of them as their Chair. Our selection is in no way a
negative statement about the nominees we did not select.

We selected Mirjam because the input from the community clearly favoured
her. She is very widely regarded as someone who listens carefully to
everyone and who helps the community to find consensus and move forward.
We selected Niall because of the positive input we received about his
track record with the community. Mirjam and Niall convinced us that they
would work well as a team and complement each other.

The RIPE NCC board has confirmed the candidates in accordance with the
process set out in ripe-727. The original time line called for a
transition from Hans Petter to Mirjam and Niall during RIPE 81 in
October. Hans Petter has since resigned as RIPE Chair because he
accepted to be the new managing director of the RIPE NCC; he is
currently also serving as RIPE Chair ad-interim. In this situation it
makes little sense to stick to the original time line. Therefore we
suggest that the outgoing and incoming Chairs arrange the transition
among themselves as soon as practicable.

We plan to publish the NomCom report about this first run of the
selection process in September before our term ends at RIPE 81. We
expect to make suggestions for improving the process and look forward to
the community discussing and deciding the process for the next iteration.

We thank everyone who supported the NomCom, especially all nominees and
the many members of the community who made time to give us their input.

Finally we call on the whole community to welcome and support Mirjam and
Niall in their new roles!

Daniel Karrenberg - Chair - RIPE 2020 Nomcom