there were some people who volunteered and were rejected. apparently i've not been to the required number of IETF mtgs... --bill On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 04:59:39PM -0700, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > Folks, > > I think that volunteering for the nomcom is something that I should do > as a duty to an organization I feel part of, and an organization I > often ask for volunteers from myself. > > Having serveed on one nomcom in the past, I know something about what > a complex (that's the best word I can find at the moment) process it > is and I actually thought for a moment before volunteering again this > round. But I did. > > However, I was quite surprised to be selected. The odds used to not be > very good, but I was shocked to learn that the pool was only 69 (now > 68) names of volunteers. Of course, if the reset stands I'll have a > chance to get un-selected again :-) > > For an organization that regularly has 1,000 - 2,000 attendees per > meeting, I don't think 68 is a very encouraging number and I think > this is something we should address going forward. > > Ole > > > Ole J. Jacobsen > Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal > Cisco Systems > Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 > E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj > **** Next organ demo event is October 3, see http://organdemo.info > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf