[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC External Appointments for 2015

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Dec 18 12:25, William Drake (william.drake at uzh.ch) wrote:

> The new Executive Committee will meet in Washington DC on 12 January
> prior to the Noncontracted Parties House meeting. There we will need
> to approve a number of appointments of 2015 NCUC reps to external
> bodies. These include:
>
> 2 NCUC Reps. to the NCSG Executive Committee
>
> The EC does admin type stuff, particularly handling new member
> applications. Robin Gross and Milton Mueller are presently our two
> reps. If they wish to continue for another year there’s no
> prohibition on them doing so, and they have the knowledge and
> experience these particular slots require. That said, other members
> are also invited to throw their hats in the ring as well.

OK, here goes. While I'm obviously outclassed by Robin and Milton,
these are as you say admin type positions that don't need any
deep substantive knowledge - indeed both Robin and Milton are
actually way over-qualified, wasting their time there.
I think I could do it well enough.

But the reason I'd want there is that I'd like to improve member
processing, turn NCSG member list into a proper database and
automate things like member status check, which is now done mostly
manually by the Chair (!), and feeding the data directly into NCUC
member db (as well as NPOC if they want to), removing a lot of
unnecessary menial work from both NCSG and NCUC ECs, as well as from
members who now need notify changes in their contact information
separately to SG and constituencies.

Why would I need to be in the EC to do this? Because it is much
easier to when you are part of the process, doing it yourself.
And even if I say so myself, I am pretty good at automating away
things I'd otherwise be doing myself. :-)

Feel free to ask for details of what I have in mind or whatever
(I'm traveling though and may be offline for several days at a time
over the next two weeks).

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Tapani Tarvainen