[ripe-list] RIPE Chairs Selected

Daniel, NomCom,

Thank you for giving us an excellent chair and vice chair!

And thank you for bringing this to closure despite all difficulties.
Kudos to you for hard work and good results.

Mirjam, Niall,

My warmest congratulations, first and foremost to you, but also to all
of us for having you. :-)

Filiz, Nigel,

Thank you very much for standing as candidates, and I know that you
would do the job equally well. It cannot have been an easy choice for
the NomCom, and I cannot really see any other selection criteria than a
dice in this case. I would have liked to have all four of you! :-)

				Cheers,
				  /Liman

ripe-list at ripe.net 2020-07-02 12:54 [+0200]:
> 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 capabl> 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