[Euro-board] Which process for replacement of EURALO selected ALAC member?

Wed Jan 11 08:18:52 UTC 2017

Hello all,

this is a follow-up to my earlier message. Thank you everyone for for
your kind responses.
I have also received private emails, including of people who would like
to stand in an open election process, which puts pressure to open the
election as a standard process rather than selecting the other
candidate. Whilst I hear Sébastien's concern about diversity, we cannot
always guarantee this, and this has been very well explained in the past.

In order to not stand accused of being a small club that stops people
from aspiring to leadership positions, we will therefore conduct open
elections. I will work with Silvia on an election schedule. This will be
compressed enough so at to have ample time to make arrangements for the
person selected to be present in Copenhagen.

Kindest regards,

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
EURALO Chair

On 06/01/2017 10:08, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> Dear EURALO Board,
>
> you will have seen the recent announcement of Veronica Cretu's
> resignation from the ALAC.
> EURALO needs to appoint someone to take her seat as soon as possible, so
> as to be able to make arrangements for that person to travel to the
> ICANN Copenhagen meeting.
> The process that we have used to select an ALAC member was by voting, as
> described in: https://community.icann.org/x/XTeAAw
>
> I have read through the EURALO Bylaws:
>
> /11.5.10 Electing the ALAC members representing Europe. The selected
> representatives must be members of different ALSes, must have their
> principal residence in different countries of the region and their
> nationalities must be different. To the extent possible, gender balance
> and regional balance within Europe shall be fostered./
>
> Having discussed the process that we should pursue with a couple of
> people, I have heard a suggestion that instead of an election, to
> expedite matters, EURALO could resort to select the candidate that ran
> against Veronica in the previous elections. I do not know if this is
> acceptable and would feel inclined to instead open an accelerated
> nominations process as soon as possible.
>
> Please let me know of your suggestion in the matter as soon as possible.
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	[EURO-Discuss] Fwd: [ALAC] ALAC Resignation
> Date: 	Fri, 6 Jan 2017 09:28:46 +0100
> From: 	Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> To: 	Discussion for At-Large Europe <euro-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>
>
>
> Dear EURALO members,
>
> I join Alan Greenberg, ALAC Chair, in regretting Veronica Cretu's
> resignation as an ALAC member.
>
> Having received her resignation email too, I congratulated her on her
> career success. But Veronica is not leaving our community altogether:
> she has confirmed to me that she will remain involved in EURALO and
> following EURALO's work. I wish her every success in the future.
>
> In the meantime, I will ask the EURALO Board to decide on the selection
> of a new ALAC member to fill her seat, with the understanding that time
> is of the essence, since the ICANN Copenhagen meeting is not far away.
>
> Finally, Best Wishes for a Happy, Prosperous, and Healthy New Year 2017
>
> Olivier
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	[ALAC] ALAC Resignation
> Date: 	Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:30:50 -0500
> From: 	Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
> To: 	ALAC <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>
>
>
> It is with regret that I must announce that Veronica Cretu has 
> submitted her resignation as an ALAC Member.
>
> When she agreed to run for the ALAC position within EURALO, she 
> believed that she would have sufficient time to devote to ICANN. Due 
> to a number of ongoing and new professional assignments, she feels 
> that is no longer the case. Veronica is not the type of person to 
> make a commitment to work with the ALAC and then not deliver on her 
> commitment, so she feels that in good conscience, she must resign.
>
> I have notified Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Chair of EURALO and he along 
> with the EURALO Board will decide how to fill the vacancy. Hopefully 
> this will be done with due haste to allow EURALO to be fully 
> represented on the ALAC and in Copenhagen.
>
> Veronica holds a number of positions on ALAC sub-groups, and I will 
> be working with EURALO and the two remaining European ALAC members to 
> ensure that EURALO is well represented.
>
> Alan
>
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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