[Euro-board] Board elections

[Roberto Gaetano]

Hi all.

Maybe I have been misunderstood. When I said that we are not in a hurry, I meant that we do not need to have a new Board in the next days, because the current one is supposed to be working.

However, since the deadline for presenting candidatures has passed, and the vote is supposed to start, there is one single thing that we, as a Board, need to do: decide whether we go on with the current slate - which means to have a crippled Board where ex-officio members will be the vast majority - or to stop the process and figure out how to proceed - maybe proposing amended or at least relaxed rules. This needs an action *NOW* by the current Board, because we cannot leave the responsibility of a decision to the Chair - non that he will not have shoulders broad enough to carry this weight, but because by doing this we show to the community the inability of this Board to operate.

This said, may I note that if we continue the election process as is, we will have an ineligible Board because we only have three candidates, two of which with the same nationality, therefore the result will be a Board of two, which is below the minimum.

Cheers,
Roberto

> On 16.12.2019, at 23:29, Sebicann Bachollet <sebicann at bachollet.fr> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Roberto,
> It is a good idea but I would like to have the point of view of the other Board members.
> All the best
> SeB
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>> Le 16 déc. 2019 à 22:48, Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Good evening everybody.
>> I acknowledge Sébastien’s comment earlier today in the EURALO teleconference that we are short of candidates for the Board, while at the same time facing the problem of lack of diversity. In particular we have a couple of problems, that are the limitation to one person per country - we have two candidates for France - and the limitation to one person per ALS - the individual users are all formally belonging to one ALS.
>> My personal opinion is that we should take the time to think about the situation. After all, the sky is not falling on earth, because we have a Board that is still functioning and to have one or two weeks delay will not be a problem. Should we have a Board call to discuss these issues? In the current situation it would be much worse to take decisions in a hurry than to take the time to craft a good solution.
>> I defer to the Chair for a decision on this suggestion.
>> Cheers,
>> Roberto
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