At 12:40 PM 9/16/2014, Stewart Bryant wrote: >>The worst case, which is not a fantasy, is that 5 large companies encourage >>their staff to volunteer, so we end up with 5 pairs of large-company >>staff and nobody from the rest of the community. But (as Mike seems to >>imply) if we put in rules to make this impossible, we'd be even further >>from "each eligible volunteer is equally likely to be selected." >>So this does need clarity of intent, one way or the other. >> >> Brian >It would be useful to run the stats to see how close we have ever come to that. The affiliations are not on the site so it's difficult to do a quick check. My recollection is that we have never seen worse than 2+2, and that does not happen every year. What I remember (without going back and checking) is something like 2+2+1 or 2+2+1+1 happening multiple times. What might actually be more interesting is looking at say the last 15 years or so of Nomcom membership and understanding what the long term trend of representation is. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have that information all in one place. Mike