[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC External Appointments for 2015

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

But if one reads the charter on the NCSG-EC's responsibilities, one can
see there is so much more it could be doing.

avri

On 23-Dec-14 11:11, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for this Tapani, good to have another hat in the ring for the
> EC to review, and if this is the best way to progress the data base
> management that’s something to consider.  Worth bearing in mind too
> that much of what the EC does is processing new applications etc, so
> you might want to idly poke around
> in http://mailman.ipjustice.org/pipermail/ec-ncsg/ to get a feel for
> the workflow and dynamics.
>
> Best
>
> Bill
>
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>> On Dec 22, 2014, at 3:28 AM, Tapani Tarvainen
>> <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO <mailto:ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO>> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 18 12:25, William Drake (william.drake at uzh.ch
>> <mailto: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).
>>
>> -- 
>> Tapani Tarvainen
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