On 03/10/13 18:45, Melinda Shore allegedly wrote: > On 3/10/2013 1:04 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: >>> +1. We do not want to manage by ideology - consider how well that >>> serves political parties. >> Right. > > Well, I don't know. To be honest "The I* should > contain more than one sort of human" doesn't sound *that* > ideological to me. Yes but that's a guideline, not "the Nomcom MUST increase I* diversity according to the metric defined in section 17.1 every year". > I'm convinced there's a > problem but I'm equally convinced that we can't make > progress on it given current organizational constraints. An explicit guideline is a big deal. (But I speculate that every NomCom does take diversity into consideration anyway.)