[At-Large] Language issues

[Izumi AIZU]

Vittorio, thanks for your thoughtful comments.
I have been trying to participate in ALAC as much as possible,
yet the last two months I know my level of prticipation was
lower than average. I got a new project to launch, among others,
have to travel a lot (mostly domestically), had to deal with rather
seriouos online defamation, etc etc, and even I was aware of
certain events, I could not particiapte, and I also missed other
events, such as one vote, as I was not paying sufficient attention.
I missed to read on email and that is it.

And, I am ready to be evaluated based on the rules we collectively agreed.

izumi



2008/9/28 Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu>:
> Alan Greenberg ha scritto:
>>
>> But we also need people who can put a reasonable amount of time into ICANN
>> as well. Certainly many ICANN volunteers can consider their ICANN work part
>> of their paid jobs, but I know many who put a LOT of their own time into it.
>
> In the last six years, I've seen many people come and go from the ALAC and
> the At Large constituency. We had plenty of problems about lack of
> commitment in the initial years, but over time things got better through a
> combination of better selections by the Nomcom, increased staff support
> (which means better organization and more bugging) and the introduction of
> rules that allowed us to kick those people who didn't participate.
>
> The bottom line, however, is that either an ALAC member is committed to
> serving on the ALAC, or he/she is not. In the former case, there might be
> valid reasons that prevent the member from participating in a call or  in a
> vote, but this is always a rather exceptional case, and you will see that
> person trying to address the problem by sending comments or votes in
> advance, and asking for reports about what happened. However, if someone
> misses several calls or several votes - perhaps most calls or most votes -
> then it's a clear lack of commitment.
>
> There are several reasons why the commitment can go away, and not all of
> them deserve blame - for example, the person may have more important things
> to do, may have changed job, may have pressing personal issues. It's not
> necessarily like the person is willingly making fun of us all and of the
> institution. However, this does not change the bottom line.
>
> So, no evaluations should be made on just one or two votes, but six to nine
> months is a sufficient scale; we introduced rules that allow the ALAC to get
> rid of people who cannot participate; there is really no excuse for not
> applying them.
> --
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