On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 03:59:34PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 03:13:01PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > Part of what I meant when I signed the diversity letter was to state a belief
> > that within a pool of qualified candidates, I believe diversity is
> > important enough that it is valuable to select for diversity even if
> > this does not maximize the skills that you enumerated (tech skill, admin
> > skill, works with others and something else).
>
> "Maximize" overstates my position. My belief is once the base requirements
> are met that diversity is an appropriate tie-breaker. Maximizing the four I
> mentioned is different.
I think that diversity is already taken into account
much more than just as a tie-breaker. Nomcon does
look at a lot of the factors influenced by the
candidates background / diversity stats already as
actual job qualifications: Knowlege/presence of
geographic regions, collaborative influencing leadership
stle, ability to engage with other cultures, etc. pp.
Cheers
Toerless