Dear Colleagues, This is a call for nominations or volunteers to co-chair the RIPE NCC Services working group. Please DO NOT reply to this message if you wish to volunteer or propose a volunteer. Call for RIPE NCC Services Working Group Chair In accordance with the chair selection process we announce that the term of one of our co-chairs (Rob Evans) will soon expire and we would like to invite volunteers, or nominations, for someone to become a co-chair of the RIPE NCC Services working group. Anyone may volunteer, and anyone may be nominated by someone else. To do this, please send a mail to ncc-services-wg-chairs@ripe.net <mailto:ncc-services-wg-chairs@ripe.net> before the end of Tuesday 11th October 2022. It would be helpful for candidates to provide some words as to why they think they ought to be a co-chair, what new ideas, or improvements they might bring, and so on. We will publish the list of volunteers, along with anything the volunteers include with their nomination, to this mailing list on Tuesday 11th October 2022. Discussion and support (or opposition) for each candidate can then be offered on the list. At the NCC Services working group session at RIPE 85, Kurtis will announce the candidate based on the mailing list discussion. Timeline Tuesday 27 Sept This call for volunteers posted to the ncc-services-wg mail list Tuesday 11 Oct Deadline for volunteers Tuesday 11 Oct List of volunteers and call for support posted to the mail list Tuesday 25 Oct Deadline for showing support for volunteers on the mail list Wednesday 26 Oct NCC Services WG session at RIPE 85 References The RIPE working group chair job description is included in ripe-692: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-692 <https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-692> A guide for New RIPE WG Chairs is in RIPE-765: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-765 <https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-765> The tasks associated with the RIPE WG Chair Collective are described in RIPE-749: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-749 <https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-749> The guidelines for managing WG mailing lists are in RIPE-764: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-764 <https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-764> The RIPE NCC Services working group chair selection process is documented here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/services/ripe-ncc-service... <https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/services/ripe-ncc-services-wg-chair-selection-process> Of course, the RIPE Code of Conduct is described in RIPE-766: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-766 <https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-766> As always, please feel free to reach out to any of the chairs directly, to us as a group at ncc-services-wg-chairs@ripe.net <mailto:ncc-services-wg-chairs@ripe.net>, or discuss this or any other any relevant topic on this mailing list. Kind regards, Bijal Sanghani On behalf of the NCC Services WG Chairs