ABSdt 23.02.10 Summary Minutes

Particpants: Tijani Ben Jemaa, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Patrick Vande Walle, Olivier Crépin-LeBlond, Alan Greenberg, Hong Xue, Dave Kissoondoyal

Staff: Gisella Gruber-White, Matthias Langenegger

The endorsement of the ABSC members will happen during the ALAC call on the 23rd of February.

Olivier: The two docs that are currently online (RoP and SOI) are a good start but need further editing.

Tijani: I added a comment to stress the importance that the candidates need to have a strong link with the At-Large community but there was no reaction.

CLO: This is one of the realities of working with volunteers. We are in a busy period of the year and not all of us have enough time to work on this issue at the moment. Should we say the document needs to be edited by the next meeting?

Hong: we need to make some adjustments to the docs currently posted but the work should not be too time-consuming.

Alan: few people commented on my drafts in the past two years so thanks to Tijani

Patrick: I do think it is important that the candidates have a strong connection with At-Large but it might not have to in the SOI.

The participants then held a discussion on the Draft ABSC Rules of Procedures and updated the document directly on the wiki.

Alan: we should take the discussion on the Rules of Procedures offline. People should add their comments and add their name in square brackets.

Cheryl: I find this challenging, IMHO this will lead to a situation where few people will do all the work and at the next meeting we will have to discuss this again.

AI: Alan will add numbers to a every line of the documents. Everybody is requested to only make comments and not edit the document.

Tijani: we should appoint people to draft the documents. Somebody needs to hold the pen on the different sections.

It was decided that Evan will hold the pen on the Rules of Procedure. He will analyze the document and incorporate the comments made on the draft.

AI: Alan will get in contact with Evan and ask him whether he will be able to hold the pen on the Draft Rules of Procedure.

AI: Tijani will will hold the pen on the Statement of Interest. He will analyze the document and incorporate the comments made on the draft.

AI: Hong will hold the pen on the Confidential Candidate Reference Form.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 1st at 1300 UTC