On 16 Oct 2020, at 00:00, Dave Knight <dave@shl.io> wrote:
Maybe have the outgoing and existing chairs explicitly go out and encourage someone who hasn't served before to volunteer?
I struggle to reconcile our efforts toward impartiality with the notion of having the chairs encouraging a preferred candidate.
It depends on what’s meant by encouragement. I'm fairly sure Paul means approaching someone (or more than one) and saying “Have you ever thought of becoming a WG co-chair?”. Which would be fine. He almost certainly wasn’t meaning the co-chairs dictate to the WG who they must select. Which obviously would not be fine. Encouraging someone to stand doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a preferred candidate (after all the WG makes the selection) or impartiality has been compromised.