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 (Bijal Sanghani) 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> before the end of Tuesday 9th November 2021. 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 Wednesday 10th November 2021. Discussion and support (or opposition) for each candidate can then be offered on the list. At the NCC Services working group session at RIPE 83, Kurtis and Rob hope to announce consensus based on the mailing list discussion. Timeline -------- Tue 26 Oct This call for volunteers posted to the ncc-services-wg mail list Tue 9 Nov Deadline for volunteers Wed 10 Nov List of volunteers and call for support posted to the mail list Tue 23 Nov Deadline for showing support for volunteers on the mail list Wed 24 Nov NCC Services WG session at RIPE 83 References ---------- The RIPE working group chair job description is included in 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 The tasks associated with the RIPE WG Chair Collective are described in 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 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... Of course, the RIPE Code of Conduct is described in 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>, or discuss this or any other any relevant topic on this mailing list. [With thanks to Dave Knight for the text this was cribbed from.]