[ga] GA Chair-NOMINATION-Charles Sha'ban

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

Dear GA members,

Electing a Chair only from only a one-dimensional on-line acquaintance is
experimental at best and a gamble at worst.

Qualities of self-discipline are needed, but the heart must also be in the
right place. We should have candidates who do not really want it, but who
are finally persuaded to do the duty by the clamor of their nominations. 
The way we are proceeding now, with candidates nominated and then
immediately attacked and defended, results in instant election politics
even before nominations are accepted. 
We will get nowhere like this.


The only way to get enough candidates to make an election meaningful is to
have a large number of seconded nominations.
This is why I proposed to support Joanna's motion to the WG-review, and use
a big list on the Polling Booth as a starting point to narrow down a slate
of nominees.  We can see later who will accept.

Deliberate discrediting efforts towards the Booth have only served to slow
the nomination process down and make the election of a Chair who could take
his/her seat in Melbourne  impossible.

Roberto, are you keeping track of all the nominations?

We need an enthousiastic and committed Chair, who has a great deal of time
for the GA, who can be firm and impartial and who has ideally kept aloof
from partisan positions so far.

I think Charles Sha'ban, of Egypt, who has shown great comittment to a big
task of outreach (TAGI volunteered to translate the ICANN website into
Arabic)  may serve us very well as Chair and it is my privilege to nominate
him and ask for seconds from others who know him personally.


--Joop--
Former bootstrap of the CA/idno
       The Polling Booth 
www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/

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