Dear GNA-G Community member,

The GNA-G Nominations Committee (NomCom) is accepting nominations for the GNA-G Leadership Team (LT) through 23:00 GMT 31 October 2021. The LT has two vacancies.

Introduction

The current Leadership Team consists of four co-chairs: Erik-Jan Bos (NORDUnet), Buseung Cho (KISTI), Harvey Newman (Caltech), and David Wilde (AARnet) with two vacancies. The vacancies are for a 24-month (2-year) term and 48-month (4-year) term respectively.

Anyone working in the R&E networking community is eligible to serve in the LT. The NomCom will be looking for candidates with technical competence, organizational skills, or relevant experience. The NomCom will emphasize diversity in the composition of the LT, in particular age, gender, and continent. Experience in the field of R&E networking and/or running Global eXchange Points (GXPs) is welcome.

What does it mean to be an LT member?

The LT looks after the long-term evolution of the networking layer of the Global R&E Network (GREN) and provides oversight to the GNA-G Working Groups. The LT also manages the GNA-G website and consults with the Executive Liaison from time to time. For more information see https://www.gna-g.net/about-us/.

On a regular basis, the LT meets by VC, to discuss progress, issues, and community meetings. Due to the global nature of the GREN, the work in GNA-G means a VC out of office hours, due to time zones. Also, the full GNA-G Community meets every now and then to discuss developments and next steps at global events as much as possible. Hence this involves occasional intercontinental travel. There is no reimbursement for serving on the LT, as this is deemed a community service supported by your home organization.

How to get nominated?

Any member of the GNA-G Community may nominate any member of the GNA-G Community for the open positions; self-nomination is permitted. A nomination is only complete when supported by at least one other member from the community, from a different organization, participating in the GNA-G, than the nominee. In addition, the nominee must accept the nomination.

A nomination can have two forms:

1. You can nominate someone + get a second from a member of the community + have the nominee accept the nomination; or

2. Nominate yourself + get a second from a member of the community.

You must indicate why you want to join the GNA-G LT and whether you prefer a 24-month or 48-month term. Nominations should be sent to: nominations@lists.gna-g.netmailto:nominations@lists.gna-g.net. Accepted nominations will be made public to the GNA-G community.

Nomination Timeline

12 October 2021 - Call for Nominations opens

31 October 2021 - Nominations close

9 November 2021 - Announcement of candidates by the NomCom, community feedback opens

5 December 2021 - Community Feedback closes

15 December 2021 - NomCom announces new LT members during GNA-G VC.

NomCom members

Celeste Anderson (Pacific Wave) – USA

Lars Fischer (NORDUnet) – European Nordics

Alexander van den Hil (SURF) – The Netherlands

Bruno Hoeft (KIT) – Germany

Michael Stanton (RNP) – Brazil

Shukri Wiener (TENET) – South Africa

Should you have any questions or need further information, please feel free to reach out to (one of) the NomCom members.

Kind regards,

Alexander van den Hil