Electing a new Security Representative to the SSC

[rpwagner]

By now you likely saw the email from Zach Sailer announcing the results of the latest Executive Council election, and thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. Because I’ve been elected to the EC, I can no longer serve as the Security representative to the SSC and we’ll need to elect a new one.

During the bootstrapping phase of the new Jupyter governance model our election of an SSC rep was very informal. I was nominated, agreed I would serve, and then we voted during one of our calls. Since we’re still small group a similar process may work again. I would like to ensure that the process is open, although I also support voting being private if that what any one of us prefers.

We can discuss this during our upcoming meetings, or we can work through the process here.

At the moment, the Security Council is (the easy way to tag you all on this issue):

• Matthias Bussonnier @Carreau
• Jason Grout @jasongrout
• Rollin Thomas @rcthomas
• Rick Wagner @rpwagner
• David L. Qiu @dlqqq
• Joe Lucas @JosephTLucas
• Rosio Reyes @RRosio

If there is someone else we would like to invite to participate (such as @krassowski), this could be good time.

[rcthomas]

Congratulations @rpwagner!

I feel that anyone on the current Security Council would make for excellent representative to the SSC --- myself excluded. I can't remember the last time I was able to attend a Security Council meeting, and I don't know when I will be able to do so again in the future. My job responsibilities have changed a lot over the last year.

I should be honest with myself and remove my name from the Security Council roster. If the best way to signal that is to open a PR taking my name off I can do that.

[Carreau]

First congrats @rpwagner,

While I would be happy to serve in other circumstances, I'm three weeks away from deconnecting for 6 months, so i'll yield to someone else. Any other people mentioned in this thread so far would be ok with me.

[rpwagner]

Thanks, Rollin!

I should be honest with myself and remove my name from the Security Council roster. If the best way to signal that is to open a PR taking my name off I can do that.

I opened up PR #87 for you. If you approve it I'll merge it and also update the Google Group membership.

[rpwagner]

First congrats @rpwagner,

Thank you!

While I would be happy to serve in other circumstances, I'm three weeks away from deconnecting for 6 months, so i'll yield to someone else. Any other people mentioned in this thread so far would be ok with me.

That seems like the prudent decision. And I agree, anyone else on the current council are good choices from my perspective.

Since @jasongrout is also on the EC, that leaves @RRosio, @dlqqq, and @JosephTLucas. If any of you would like to discuss the role before volunteering, I'm glad to share my experience serving on the SSC during a call.

[dlqqq]

@rpwagner Thanks for opening this issue Rick! I'm certainly open to the idea. I need to check with my team first though.

[krassowski]

Hi folks, I would like to join the group for the next 6 months or so to contribute some extra resources for the time when @Carreau will be away.