[AusNOG] Who are these people nominating for APNIC EC?

[Martin Visser]

Skeeve,

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)

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.

Regards, Martin

Regards, Martin

MartinVisser99 at gmail.com

On 17 February 2015 at 20:43, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> https://2015.apricot.net/elections#nominations
>
> But, there are two other Australians who have nominated... who I've barely
> heard of in Australia, much less the International Governance community.
>
> From what I can see *Sarah-Jane Peterschlingmann* from Brisbane has never
> been to a meeting - even the last meeting in Brisbane.  Never posted to
> Ausnog, and well... who?
>
> Jonathan Gleeson from Melbourne IT is the same, although he went to the
> last meeting in Brisbane - but no others that I can see.
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> 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.
>
> So.. reminder... if you haven't voted... online voting closes in a about
> 15 hours.  You can vote at MyAPNIC <https://myapnic.net/auth/login.html>
> ... check out https://2015.apricot.net/elections#voting for more
> information.
>
> Of course.. I encourage voting in the following order:
>
> *- James Spenceley*
>
> *- Gaurab Raj Upadhaya*- Dr Kenny Huang
> - Jessica Shen
>
> All of which have experience and and are involved in the community in a
> significant way.
>
> ...Skeeve
>
>
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