<div dir="ltr">Skeeve,<div><br></div><div>Is that a reflection of the candidates or maybe the reach and relevance of the networking networks? I work with a large enterprise network integrator (HP) that works with lots of the biggest government, corporate and telcos in Australia. And funnily enough despite working with a lot of lead architects, engineers and some CTOs for those organisations, almost none of them appear here at AusNOG nor do I seem them making a name for themselves out there on other social networks. I guess they are all quiet achievers excepts for us extroverts who like the sound of voice ;-) (And I am included myself in this)<br><br>But I do agree that it is probably hard for board or council candidates to demonstrate community consultation if they don't appear to part of the community. I guess the community is really a large ocean, and it is easy to be a fish in just a few ponds.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, Martin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Regards, Martin<br><br><a href="mailto:MartinVisser99@gmail.com">MartinVisser99@gmail.com</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 February 2015 at 20:43, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@theispguy.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@theispguy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Every year there are elections for the APNIC Executive Council.... and every year random people who most have never heard of in the community, put their names up for nomination for EC. We're used to them, and they pretty much get ignored... the community isn't going to elect people who have no skin in the game.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://2015.apricot.net/elections#nominations" target="_blank">https://2015.apricot.net/elections#nominations</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>But, there are two other Australians who have nominated... who I've barely heard of in Australia, much less the International Governance community.<br></div><div><br></div><div>>From what I can see <b>Sarah-Jane Peterschlingmann</b> from Brisbane has never been to a meeting - even the last meeting in Brisbane. Never posted to Ausnog, and well... who?</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan Gleeson from Melbourne IT is the same, although he went to the last meeting in Brisbane - but no others that I can see.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not judging these people as people... they might be fantastic people... but what I am struggling to understand is that people who are not actively involved in the operator community (not a single post to Ausnog or APNIC mailing list - ever, from either of them) hope to achieve across a region of 55 economies with billions of people - when they haven't even been involved in representing Australia in the regional community - or even locally.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, they might be awesome people... but it frustrates me when people nominate for such a high office in the global community without doing their time, being involved in regional governance... maybe a little policy or at least debating it, maybe presenting sometimes... </div><div><br></div><div>Yes... a bit of a rant... but I'd like to see our community vote for those who have made the effort of being involved, and have shown they are worthy of our support.</div><div><br></div><div>So.. reminder... if you haven't voted... online voting closes in a about 15 hours. You can vote at <a href="https://myapnic.net/auth/login.html" target="_blank">MyAPNIC</a> ... check out <a href="https://2015.apricot.net/elections#voting" target="_blank">https://2015.apricot.net/elections#voting</a> for more information.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course.. I encourage voting in the following order:</div><div><br></div><b>- James Spenceley</b><br><b>- Gaurab Raj Upadhaya<br></b>- Dr Kenny Huang<div>- Jessica Shen<br></div><div><br></div><div>All of which have experience and and are involved in the community in a significant way.</div><div><br><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#002060" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)">...Skeeve</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)"><br>--</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)">Skeeve Stevens - <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The ISP Guy</span></p></font></font><font color="#002060" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)">Email: <a href="mailto:skeeve@theispguy.com" target="_blank">skeeve@theispguy.com</a> ; <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/TheISPGuy" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">@TheISPGuy</a></p></font></font><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(32,73,125);font-family:Calibri">Blog: <a href="http://theispguy.com/" target="_blank">TheISPGuy.com</a> ; Facebook: </span><font color="#20497d" face="Calibri"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/theispguy" target="_blank">TheISPGuy</a></font><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#002060"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)">Linkedin: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">/in/skeeve</a> ; <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Expert360: </span><a href="https://expert360.com/profile/d54a9" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Profile</a></p></font></font></div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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